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Date Posted: 21:15:46 05/18/03 Sun
Author: Joe
Author Host/IP: dialup-6-102.tulane.edu / 129.81.213.102
Subject: ABC-TV (so-called) 50th Anniversary Special, Monday 19-May-2003

On Monday 19-May-2003, from 8-11pm (Eastern, Pacific; 7-10pm Central), the ABC Television Network will air a three-hour (so-called) 50th Anniversary Special.

The American Broadcasting Company is actually *OLDER* than 50 years old. As a corporate media entity of its own (separate from General David Sarnoff's RCA/NBC), ABC can date itself back to 1943, some SIXTY years ago. And ABC began some form of involvement in Television circa 1948, around the same time that both CBS and NBC (and DuMont, long since gone as a network) were also expanding from network radio into network TV.

ABC could even count itself about as old as NBC, since ABC was formed OUT OF RCA/NBC. Prior to 1943, there were TWO radio networks operated by RCA/NBC, the NBC-Red Network and the NBC-Blue Network. Both operated simultaneously, with different programs on different stations in each market, etc. But in the 1ate 1930s, the US Federal Government thought that RCA/NBC was trying to monopolize radio, and made RCA/NBC sell off one of their two radio networks (and other properties as well). RCA decided to retain the NBC-Red Network (as the NBC Radio Network, and then enter TV under just a single NBC brand), and sell off the NBC-Blue Network. In 1943, the NBC-Blue Network was sold off to Edward J. Noble (head of Life Savers Candy company), and he renamed it ABC, the American Broadcasting Company. ABC still has radio programming nationwide to this day, mostly news and sports. Paul Harvey's news commentaries are still on ABC Radio to this day, and he started nationwide on ABC-Radio *PRIOR* to 1953, he started on ABC Radio in 1951.

Anyhow, fifty years ago, in 1953, the (already existing) American Broadcssting Company and the United Paramount Theaters Corporation merged. That is really what the "50" this year is all about. Disney's ABC is counting the 50 years from when UPT bought out already existing ABC, and seems to be ignoring the 10 previous years (or even 15 years before that as NBC-Blue).

Why am I posting this to the My Three Sons board?

Well, there is that 3-hour nostalgic special on Monday night, 19-May-2003, on ABC-TV, and many of us love TV nostalgia of all kinds in general...

AND, because My Three Sons B&W/Bub/Mike years from 1960-65 were originally on the ABC Television Network, before the show moved over to CBS (in color) in Fall 1965 (thru 1972).

There will most likely be clips of the B&W years of My Three Sons on this (so-called) 50th Anniversary special of ABC on Monday 19-May-2003. 8-11pm (Eastern/Pacific), 7-10pm (Central), ABC Telvision Network.

And NOW you know..... the rrrrrrRRRREST.... of the Story!
good-DAY!

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