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
New Brunswick Broadcasting Company New Brunswick Broadcasting Company New Brunswick Broadcasting Company Limited was a Canadian media holding company based in Saint John, New Brunswick. New Brunswick Broadcasting was established in 1934 when Saint John Publishing purchased the Saint John radio station CFBO. Four local men who published the two major newspapers in Saint John, New Brunswick were the owners. Principal shareholder Howard P. Robinson was joined by J.D. McKenna, T.F. Drummie and L.W. Bewick. As directors they added the new division under the name New Brunswick Broadcasting at the same time as they changed the radio station call letters from CFBO to CHSJ.