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WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the ABC television network, located in New York City. WABC-TV is owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of the Walt Disney Company. The station's studios and offices are located near Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building. WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its version of the ''Eyewitness News'' format and for its morning show, syndicated nationally by corporate cousin Disney-ABC Domestic Television. In the few areas of the eastern United States where an ABC station isn't receivable over-the-air, WABC is available on satellite via DirecTV (which also provides coverage of the station to Latin American and Caribbean countries and through major U.S. air carriers on LiveTV inflight entertainment system) and Dish Network (which carries the station as part of All American Direct's distant network package). ==History== The station signed on August 10, 1948, as WJZ-TV,〔("WJZ-TV starts; elaborate inaugural program." ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', August 16, 1948, pg. 23.〕 the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, along with WENR-TV (now WLS-TV) in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. Channel 7's call letters came from its then-sister radio station, WJZ (770 AM, now WABC). In its early years, WJZ-TV was programmed much like an independent station, as the ABC television network was still, for the most part, in its very early stages of development; the ABC-owned stations did air some common programming during this period, especially after the 1949 fall season when the network's prime time schedule began to expand. The station's original transmitter site was atop The Pierre Hotel at 2 East 61st Street, before moving to the Empire State Building a few years later. The station's original studios were located at 77 West 66th Street, with studios at 7 West 66th Street. An underground tunnel linked ABC studios at 7 West 66th Street to the lobby of the Hotel des Artistes, a block north on West 67th Street. Another studio inside the Hotel des Artistes was used for ''Eyewitness News Conference''. The station's call letters were changed to WABC-TV on March 1, 1953〔("It's now WABC-AM-FM-TV; ABC also changes slides." ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', March 2, 1953, pg. 70.〕〔(WABC-AM-FM-TV advertisement. ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', March 2, 1953, pg. 37.〕 after ABC merged its operations with United Paramount Theaters, a firm which was broken off from former parent company Paramount Pictures by decree of the U.S. government.〔"Ambitious ABC planning initiated under new merged ownership." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', February 16, 1953, pp. 27-29. ()()()〕 The WJZ-TV callsign was later reassigned to Westinghouse Broadcasting (the original owners of WJZ radio in New York) in 1957 for their newly acquired television station in Baltimore – a station that was, by coincidence, an ABC affiliate until 1995. As part of ABC's expansion program, initiated in 1977, ABC built 7 Lincoln Square on the southeast corner of West 67th Street and Columbus Avenue, on a site of an abandoned moving and storage warehouse. At about the same time, construction was started at 30 West 67th Street on the site of a former parking lot. Both buildings were completed in June 1979 and WABC-TV moved its offices from 77 West 66th Street to 7 Lincoln Square. On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WABC-TV, as well as eight other local television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. Transmitter maintenance engineer Donald DiFranco died in the attack. In the immediate aftermath, the station fed its signal to several UHF stations that were still broadcasting (notably WNYE-TV), before establishing temporary facilities at the Armstrong Tower in Alpine, New Jersey. The station eventually established transmission facilities at the Empire State Building. On May 27, 2007, WABC-TV's studios suffered major damage as the result of a fire that knocked the station off the air shortly before the start of the 11:00 PM Newscast. According to preliminary reports, the fire may have been ignited by a spotlight coming into contact with a curtain inside the news studio; the station's website later reported the cause as an "electrical malfunction". The station's building was evacuated and the fire was brought under control, though the studio was said to be "badly damaged", having suffered smoke and water damage. WABC-TV resumed broadcasting at around 1:00 AM on May 28, 2007 (initially carrying the network's 10:00 PM West Coast feed of ''Brothers & Sisters'', followed by the full broadcast of ''World News Now''). Due to the fire, the station broadcast ''Eyewitness News'' from a temporary set in the newsroom, while ''Live with Regis and Kelly'', whose set was also affected to moved to the set of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire''. Starting with the 5:00 PM Newscast on June 20, 2007, the station resumed the ''Eyewitness News'' and ''Live...'' broadcasts from its main studios at Columbus Avenue and 66th Street. In May 2013, WABC-TV and Philadelphia sister station WPVI-TV became the first two ABC-owned stations to offer live, web-based streaming of programming to authenticated subscribers of participating cable and satellite television providers as provided through the relaunched ''Watch ABC'' mobile apps.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/abc-to-stream-live-via-app-1200479778/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/31/watch-abc-app-kindle-fire/ )〕 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「WABC-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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