ABC Signature
Sign in to saveAlso known as Touchstone Television, ABC Studios, ABC Studios International, ABC Television Studio
television production studio of Walt Disney Television
Key facts
- Formerly
- Walt Disney Productions (1948–1983) Walt Disney Network Television (1983–2003) Touchstone Television (first incarnation, 1985–2007) ABC Studios (2007–2020) ABC Signature Studios (2013–2020)
- Company type
- In-name-only unit of 20th Television
- Industry
- Television production , Home video
- Founded
- May 3, 1948 ; 78 years ago ( 1948-05-03 )
- Defunct
- October 1, 2024 ; 20 months ago ( 2024-10-01 )
- Fate
- Folded into 20th Television
- Successor
- 20th Television
- Headquarters
- Burbank, California , U.S.
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Tracy Underwood ( president ) Josh Sussman ( EVP , Business Affairs)
- Parent
- Disney Television Studios
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
ABC Signature was a production arm of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), which is a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, a sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of the Walt Disney Company. The studio's banner was also used by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment for its distribution of the studio's shows on home video starting in 2008.
Established in 1948 as the television unit of the company under the name Walt Disney Productions, it was renamed Walt Disney Network Television in 1983 and was merged with a separate studio known as the first incarnation of Touchstone Television, which was established in 1985. Disney rebranded the studio as ABC Studios in 2007 in an in-house push to drop secondary brands. It was then renamed to ABC Signature on August 10, 2020, after it merged with another separate studio, ABC Signature Studios. It was dissolved on October 1, 2024 and folded into 20th Television, which had been acquired by Disney in 2019 and renamed from 20th Century Fox Television in 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ABC Signature” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.