America's history through the lens of 20th century broadcast media
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American Broadcasting Company


The American Broadcasting Company (not to be confused with the much
later successor to the NBC Blue Network) was a short-lived radio network
founded late in 1928.  Based in Seattle, Washington, it had grand vision but
collapsed in August, 1929 for lack of sufficient funding .

This exhibit includes the following elements:

Founding, Operation and Collapse of the ABC

Comparison of ABC's two flagship stations (KJR, Seattle and KYA,San
Francisco) program schedules before ABC's launch

Comparison of the ABC and NBC 1929 program schedules

Principal ABC programming personnel and Program Gallery

ABC's development of situation comedies including a listing of
copyrighted scripts