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. Powers Edward J. Powers Edward J. Powers was an American business executive who served as president and general manager of the Boston Garden. Powers was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance and the Northeastern University School of Business. Prior to working for the Boston Garden, Powers was a junior accountant for a Boston tool company. After spending months lobbying Boston Garden treasurer George Clare for a job, Powers was hired as an accounting clerk in January 1929. He moved up the ranks to the positions of vice president-assistant treasurer and then vice president-treasurer.