The American Broadcasting Company

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 (ABC) has used a variety of logos since 1948 to identify its television network.
One of the earliest logos for the television network was a microphone with the letters "ABC" aligned vertically within in it in capital letters (the then-current logo for the ABC radio network), and the letters T and V on either side of the microphone with an announcer saying "This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company".