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 Miller (musician) of the Most Noble the Marquis of Rockingham" (London, n. d.), and Fetis states that he began a translation of J. J. Rousseau's "Dictionnaire de la Musique," of which a few proofs of the first eighteen pages were printed, but no more. Miller arranged the tune "Rockingham" as a hymn tune in 1790, to which Isaac Watts' hymn ""When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"" is sung. Miller also wrote the tune "Galway", to which Charles Wesley's hymn ""A charge to keep I have"" is sung. He died at Doncaster on 12 September 1807. Edward Miller (musician) Edward Miller (1731 or