ABC Owned Television Stations

The ABC Owned Television Stations Group is a division of Disney–ABC Television Group that oversees the owned-and-operated stations of the American Broadcasting Company, a division of The Walt Disney Company. The group consists of eight stations plus ABC National Television Sales and the Live Well Network.

ABC Network
The ABC Network's first TV station signed on August 10, 1948 as WJZ-TV, the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with WENR-TV in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. KGO-TV in San Francisco and KECA in Los Angeles, signed on during the next 13 months after WJZ.

Capital Cities/ABC

 * See: Capital Cities/ABC

Capital Cities' announced $3.5 billion purchase of ABC on March 18, 1985, stunned the media industry, as ABC was some four times bigger than Capital Cities was at the time.

Disney/ABC division
The ABC Owned TV Stations were paired with ABC Radio Network and eight TV stations in CC/ABC Broadcasting Group in Capital Cities/ABC (CC/ABC) when CC/ABC was purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 1996. In June, ABC top marketing officer announced the O&O stations would adopt a "one-channel" marketing strategy where the stations would for promotional purposes drop call letter for ABC and channel number as the marketer had this adopted at NBC before.

The Live Well Network was launched on April 27, 2009 in high definition by ABC's owned-and-operated stations on the stations' subchannels.

On November 3, 2010, Broadcasting & Cable magazine announced that SJL Broadcasting, now owned by the principal owners of Lilly Broadcasting, made an agreement with Disney to buy back WJRT-TV and WTVG, the two smallest stations in ABC's O&O portfolio. The sale was completed on April 1, 2011.

Disney, as of October 2013, is considering shopping the station group given the current wave of consolidation between station holding companies that has increased station values since 2010.

Units

 * ABC National Television Sales, Inc.
 * ABC Regional Sports & Entertainment Sales
 * Live Well Network

List of ABC owned-and-operated stations
All station are affiliate with the ABC TV network and the Live Well Network.