List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company has formed a number of production companies since its formation in 1943 and under various parent companies and owners up until the present day under ownership by the Walt Disney Company. ABC Film Syndication, or ABC Films, was ABC's syndication distribution arm from 1953 to 1971 when the FCC passed the Financial Interest and Syndication Rules (best known simply as the fin-syn rules). As a result, ABC Films was sold to 5 of its former executives and changed name to Worldvision Enterprises. ABC's current primary production company is ABC Signature.
A number of production companies were formed under Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises, Capital Cities/ABC Video Productions (both were reorganized and absorbed into ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group, which changed name to Disney Media Distribution in 2011 and currently Disney Platform Distribution since 2020 upon Capital Cities/ABC's merger with Disney), Ultra Entertainment, the Hemisphere Group and DIC Entertainment.
Company type
1992
TV
Documentaries, docudramas and talk shows
ABC News Productions
January 8, 2003
Morgan Hertzan[23]
Robin Roberts Presents
Freeform Studios
- ABC Family Productions (2007–2016)
- Freeform Original Productions (2016–2018)
Television
August 14, 2007
Jayne Bieber (SVP, Production Management and Operations)
Television
March 6, 1987
TV series production
ABC Daytime
(ABC Entertainment Group)
Active
Greengrass Productions
Greengrass Productions, Inc. is a production company of ABC Entertainment, a division of Disney General Entertainment Content.
Greengrass Productions was incorporated in California on February 10, 1992.[1]
On June 7, 1996, due to the merger with Disney, Capital Cities/ABC indicated that its ABC Productions division operations would be shut down while keeping its boutique production companies: Victor Television Productions, ABC/Kane Productions, DIC Entertainment and Greengrass Productions.[2][3] Greengrass was transferred from ABC Productions to ABC Entertainment.[4]
Company type
Television
News
December 15, 1983
Closed
Television
March 21, 1989
June 7, 1996
Closed; Library has been integrated into the first incarnation of Touchstone Television (then ABC Studios, ABC Signature Studios and currently ABC Signature)
- Brandon Stoddard (president)
- Brian McAndrews (EVP of production at ABC)
- TV shows
- Miniseries
- Telefilms
13 (1996)
Andrew Adelson Co.
Filmed entertainment
1998
Didier Pietri (SVP)
9 (1998)
TV
Movie of the week
1970
1989
TV movies, miniseries and series
TV shows
Corporation
documentary
(October 1, 1989)
Disney–ABC Television Group (now Disney General Entertainment Content)
1980
documentary
subsidiary
Entertainment
May 1979[95]
October 28, 1985
closed
Brandon Stoddard (president)[95]
Theatrical & TV films, TV shows, miniseries
Subsidiary
Filmed entertainment
1965
(Inc.: November 3, 1967)
1973
Dissolution (February 19, 1988)
theatrical films
Buena Vista Productions
unit
TV
talk, game, reality
Buena Vista Development
ABC Daytime
(ABC Television Group)
American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres Pictures Corporation (1956–1959)
Corporation
Feature films
(December 30, 1956)
- Irving H. Levin (President)
Irving H. Levin (1959)
American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres (1956–1959)
Television
TV shows
Movie
Edgar J. Scherick Associates
Subsidiary corporation
Filmed entertainment
1960[144]
Selig J. Seligman[144]
TV shows, theater features