American Broadcasting Company television. The fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the Big Three television networks, ABC is often nicknamed as "The Alphabet Network", as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the English alphabet, in order. ABC launched as a radio network on October 12, 1943, serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC. In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie
Edward J. Burling Post Office and Customs House and Methodist Church Block, a religious denomination with which Burling was affiliated. Edward J. Burling Edward J. Burling (April 24, 1819, Newburgh, New York – February 1892) was an American architect who designed buildings in Chicago in the 1840s through the 1890s. Edward J. Burling was born April 24, 1819, to Nathaniel Burling (1778-1828) and Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) Burling (1798-1886) in Newburgh, New York, a town located along the Hudson River between New York City and Albany, New York. He was never formally trained nor completed his education, but began a carpentry apprenticeship as