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ABC News Now was an American 24-hour news channel offered via digital television, broadband and streaming video at ABCNews.com and on mobile phones. It delivered breaking news, headline news each half hour, and wide range of entertainment and lifestyle programs. The channel was available in the USA and in Europe. This station's "Talk Back" feature allowed viewers to voice their own input through the submission of videos and personal thoughts on controversial issues and current topics. On October 28, 2013 ABC News Now was replaced by Fusion. ==History== The channel was ABC News second attempt as a cable news channel since the launch and failure of Satellite News Channel. After having attempted a 20 minute online news program three times a week hosted by Sam Donaldson in the 1999, ABC News launched a forerunner of ABC News Now in March 2003. The service was fee based except for the customers of America Online, Comcast and a few other Internet providers. Later, mobile phone users could access the programming through Sprint's MobiTV. It first appeared on , for a trial test, with extended coverage of the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention. 70 ABC affiliated and owned & operated stations where the original slate of affiliates. Also, service was available for purchase through ABCNews.com and RealNetworks Inc.〔 On Disney-ABC International Television announced plans to launch the channel in international territories including Germany, Spain and Belgium in 2008 on IPTV service Zattoo with more territories including the UK planned for the next 6 months, this marked the second international channel launched under ABC branding, the first being the UK general entertainment channel ABC1 which closed on September 26, 2007. The station's subchannel affiliate base eventually left over the years as other subchannel formats such as local news and weather, along with entertainment formats became the choice of many stations rather than the sustaining raw news coverage and looping features that formed the nucleus of the ABC News Now schedule. By the time of the network's end, it was streaming exclusively online and rarely promoted. ABC News Now was replaced on cable providers with Fusion in October 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ABC News Now」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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