FBI Files: Television Networks

Background

The below are FBI files on television networks. All were obtained via the Freedom of Information Act / Privacy Act.

Document Archive

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)FBI Release #1 – [94 Pages, 44.7MB]
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)FBI Release #2 – [8 Pages, 1.2MB]The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional major offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank, California.
CNN – FBI Release #1 – [197 Pages, 62MB]
CNN – FBI Release #2 – [35 Pages, 1.5MB] – The Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.  Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
MTV aka Music Television [115 Pages, 5MB] – MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel, launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks division of ViacomCBS, also headquartered in New York City. MTV was originally first tested on December 1, 1977, as Sight on Sound, but was officially launched in 1981, and originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as “video jockeys” (VJs), but in the years since its inception, the network significantly toned down its focus on music in favor of original reality programming targeting youths and young adults. MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the U.S. and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent, with approximately 90.6 million American households in the United States receiving the channel as of January 2016.

 

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This post was published on March 1, 2023 4:20 am

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