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13 Facts About KABC-TV

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KABC-TV is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of the ABC network.

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Originally, KABC-TV was located at the ABC Television Center, now called The Prospect Studios, on Prospect Avenue in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, east of Hollywood.

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3.

In 2000, KABC-TV moved to nearby Glendale into a new state-of-the-art facility designed by Cesar Pelli, as part of the Disney Grand Central Creative Campus, in the Grand Central Business Centre on the site of the former Grand Central Airport.

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4.

KABC-TV has used the Circle 7 logo since 1962 and augmented its bottom left quadrant with the ABC network logo in 1997.

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KABC-TV formerly operated a news bureau in California's state capital of Sacramento, sharing resources with sister stations KGO-TV in San Francisco and KFSN-TV in Fresno; the bureau was closed in 2014.

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6.

KABC-TV was eventually succeeded by KCOP newscaster Baxter Ward, who was backed by the station's first staff film crew.

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KABC-TV first adopted the Eyewitness News format for its newscasts in February 1969, not long after it became popular on New York City sister station WABC-TV.

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KABC-TV picked up the "News Series 2000" package first in 1989 for Eyewitness News promos, then in 1990 for additional use in bumpers and as the closing theme before being fully adopted as the Eyewitness News theme in 1992.

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9.

In May 2014, KABC-TV claimed to be the first local TV station in the United States to surpass one million likes on Facebook.

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10.

KABC-TV carries the Rams' Monday Night Football games from that year onward while other games are split between three other television stations: KCBS-TV through the NFL on CBS, including the network's Thursday night games, KNBC through NBC Sunday Night Football and NBC-produced Thursday night games, and KTTV through the NFL on Fox and Fox-produced Thursday night games .

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From 1976 to 1989 and from 1994 to 1995, KABC-TV aired MLB on ABC national broadcasts of select games involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels per the network's then broadcast rights with the league, in that capacity airing the Dodgers' victory in the 1981 World Series.

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KABC-TV served as the home station for the 1984 Summer Olympics, which were held in Los Angeles.

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13.

KABC-TV produces several local shows including Vista L A, and Eye on L A .

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