ABC Records American Broadcasting Company (ABC). It evolved from federal antitrust actions taken against the movie studios and broadcasting companies in the 1940s and early 1950s. In 1943 the Federal Communications Commission took action against anti-competitive practices, one of which forced the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to sell the Blue Network, the sister network of NBC Red Network. Blue was purchased by the businessman Edward J. Noble, and he changed its name to the American Broadcasting Company in 1946. In 1953 ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, the divested former exhibition/cinema division of Paramount Pictures. The newly merged corporation was chaired
Noble J. Johnson a Judge under Article I, but the court was raised to Article III status by operation of law on August 25, 1958, and Johnson thereafter served as an Article III Judge. His service terminated on March 17, 1968, due to his death. Johnson died on March 17, 1968, in Washington, D.C., where he had resided since his judicial appointment. He was interred in Bethesda Cemetery, West Terre Haute, Indiana. Noble J. Johnson Noble Jacob Johnson (August 23, 1887 – March 17, 1968) was a United States Representative from Indiana and an Associate Judge and Chief Judge of the United States