| Launched | 1960 |
|---|---|
| Network | ABC/Disney-ABC Television Group |
| Owned by | The Walt Disney Company |
| Country | United States |
| Website | Official website |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Ku-band | Galaxy 28 - 89W, transponder 613 at 11955MHz |
| Cable | |
| Available on select cable systems | Check local listings for channels |
| Internet television | |
| Available from select broadband internet providers | Check with your provider for details |
ABC Daytime (sometime shortened to ABC-D or ABCD) is a programming block on the ABC Network which has historically encompassed soap operas, game shows and talk shows.
On December 2, 2011, it was announced that ABC Daytime will merge with Disney-ABC Domestic Television in January 2012 to form the Times Square Studios division. [1]
Contents |
| 7:00 am – 9:00 am | Good Morning America |
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | The View |
| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | The Chew |
| 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | One Life to Live |
| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | General Hospital |
NOTE: All times are Eastern Standard; affiliate schedules may differ.
NOTE: Katie Couric's upcoming talk show Katie, being produced by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, will be a syndicated program and not part of the ABC Daytime lineup.
ABC Daytime has not had a regular game show block since 1986, and has not had any game show since a revival of Match Game ended in 1991. Though the daily version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? currently airs in daytime on many ABC owned and operated stations and affiliates, it is distributed by the network's syndication wing, Disney-ABC Domestic Television.
| Name | Title | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armand Grant | 1960-1965 | ||
| Harve Bennett | Vice President of Daytime Programming | 1965-1967 | Started as a producer at CBS. Became ABC Vice President of Programming (West Coast) in 1967. Left to return to producing. Produced several of the movies in the Star Trek franchise. |
| Leonard Goldberg | Vice President of Daytime Programming | 1967-1970 | Was Director of New York Program Development at ABC. During his tenure, he introduced such prototypical, highly successful shows as "The Dating Game," "The Newlywed Game," and "Dark Shadows". A year later, Goldberg was named Head of All Programming for ABC, a position he held for the next three years. |
| Michael Eisner | Vice President of Daytime Programming | 1971-1975 | |
| Jackie Smith | Vice President of Daytime Programming | 1981-1989 | She planned a spin-off of GH, Young Loves of General Hospital that was not picked up. |
| Jo Ann Emmerich | Senior Vice President of Daytime Programming | 1989-1993 | Was gunning for CBS Daytime, and had planned for several actors to reprise their roles on AMC (Mark Dalton, Ross & Julie Chandler, Greg Nelson, Paul Martin, Verla Grubbs, Nancy Grant), OLTL and GH. Viewed Y&R as a "serious threat", and wanted AMC to go head to head with its main competitor at 12:30pm. Viewed The Bold And The Beautiful as an "uninspiring, poor man's version of Y&R". She wanted Paul Rauch to leave sooner than he did, hired Wendy Riche and Linda Gottlieb. Tried to lure ex-writers and producers from Procter and Gamble Productions' serials and playwrights to join Loving (S.S. Morina, Frank Konigsberg) and OLTL.. |
| Pat Fili-Krushel | President of Daytime Programming | 1993-1998 | Served until she resigned to join an internet company.[4][5][6] During her tenure, the network published the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary[7] and debuted the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles (1997–2003). |
| Felicia M. Behr | Vice President of Daytime Programming | 1999-2002 | |
| Angela Shapiro | President of Daytime Programming | 1998-2002 | The co-founder of Soap Opera Digest who had been ABC's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Promotion since 1995.[8] Assumed the position of President in 2000.[9] Called "a champion of the soap fans," Shapiro is credited with adapting the prime time series practice of "refreshers" and "previews" — recapping the previous episode immediately before showing the current one and previewing the next episode at the end — and applying the concept to daytime serials.[8] The idea is still in use today, and other networks have adopted it.[8] Shapiro also utilized the established interconnection of ABC's three soap operas (General Hospital, One Life to Live, and All My Children) in a bolder synergy concept designed to "entice viewers to tune into soap operas that they might not have usually watched."[8] Over the course of six months in 2000, Daytime Emmy Award-winner Linda Dano's character Rae Cummings crossed over among all four series.[8][10] Shapiro also created ABC Super Soap Weekend, a fan event held at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida from 1996 (the year Disney bought ABC) to 2008.[8] She left ABC Daytime in 2002 to head the ABC Family network,[8] |
| Brian Frons | President of Daytime Programming | 2002-present | Joined in August 2002.[11] In May 2006 Frons was promoted to President of Daytime for the newly-created Disney-ABC Television Group, an entity overseeing all ABC and Disney networks and SOAPnet.[11] In December 2011, Frons announced that he is resigning as president after nine years with the network.[12] His departure will take effect in January 2012. |
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