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WABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building.
The 4:30 Movie is a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or made-for-TV movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels.
WABC-TV, New York City TV station (channel 7) WPLJ, New York City radio station (95.5 FM), which held the call sign WABC-FM from 1953 until 1971; WHSQ, New York City radio station (880 AM), which held the WABC call sign from 1926 until 1946; WWNC, Asheville, North Carolina radio station (570 AM), which held the WABC call sign from 1925 until 1926
The first was "The Big Show," later rechristened "The 4:30 Movie," a 90-minute lead into Al Primo's groundbreaking "Eyewitness News" at 6 and 11 pm. [16] Scott voiced these programs with an exciting, engaging style that kept viewers tuned into WABC from 4:30 to 7 pm, and the ABC network news and entertainment programming which followed.
Beutel moved to ABC in October 1962 as a reporter with ABC News and as an anchor at the network's New York flagship, WABC-TV.WABC-TV built on its three-year ratings success with newscast Report to New York anchored by Scott Vincent, and expanded the format to a one-hour 6:00 p.m. newscast called The Big News.
Within the backdrop of the Civil Rights and Black power movements, the program was created by WABC-TV to fill a void in black-oriented programming. In its earlier days Like It Is focused primarily on black celebrities; later it would focus entirely on politically related matters after Noble became sole host and producer. [3]
She remained in that position until leaving WABC-TV in 1983. [5] She returned to New York local television in May 1999 to present a two-part report on the plight of Albanian refugees in Brooklyn for WNYW-TV's Ten O' Clock News. [1] She went on to teach at the Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut, during the 1990s and into 2000. [citation ...
Williams joined WABC in 1991 as a reporter and eventually became a weekend anchor. Within a year, she was a co-anchor of the station's 11 p.m. Eyewitness News newscast with Bill Beutel. In 1999, Williams joined Beutel on the 6 p.m. newscast as well, becoming Beutel's first co-anchor at 6 p.m. since the departure of Roger Grimsby in 1986.