List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company
Disney General Entertainment Content, formerly American Broadcasting Companies, Capital Cities/ABC and Disney-ABC Television Group has formed a number of production companies over the years. ABC Film Syndication, or ABC Films, was ABC's syndication distribution arm from 1953 to 1971 when FCC passed the fin-syn rule. As a result, ABC Films was sold to 5 of its former executives becoming Worldvision Enterprises. ABC's current primary production company is ABC Signature.
A number of production companies were formed under Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises, or ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group: Capital Cities/ABC Video Productions, 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 Walt Disney Television.
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 into ABC Entertainment from ABC Productions.[4]
Company type
Television
News
December 15, 1983
Closed
Television
March 21, 1989
June 7, 1996
Closed; Its library has been integrated into Touchstone Television (later ABC Studios, 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
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