Formerly |
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Company type | Division |
Industry | Television production Home video |
Predecessors | |
Founded | April 18, 1983 |
Defunct | October 1, 2024 |
Fate | Dissolved; operations folded into 20th Television |
Successor | 20th Television |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
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 on April 18, 1983 as Walt Disney Network Television and was merged with a separate studio known as the first incarnation of Touchstone Television, which was established on March 21, 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.