Formerly |
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Company type | Division |
Industry | Television production Home video |
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Founded |
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Defunct | October 1, 2024 |
Fate | Operations merged into 20th Television |
Successor | 20th Television |
Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | |
Parent | Disney Television Studios |
ABC Signature[1] was an American television production studio and the flagship production arm of 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 2008.
Established in 1950 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 its current name on August 10, 2020, after it merged with another separate studio, ABC Signature Studios.[1] It was folded into 20th Television, which had been acquired by Disney in 2019.