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Walt Disney Co’s ABC network is tapping its blockbuster “Avengers” franchise for a new TV show, looking to reverse a ratings decline that put it last of the four largest networks among audiences coveted by advertisers. The network is so confident in “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” that it scheduled the show on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. eastern time, where it will face off against TV’s top-rated scripted show, CBS’ crime juggernaut “NCIS.” ABC plans to air a total eight new shows this fall, according to a schedule of its Fall lineup that was released by the network. It will also...

Toyota Dealers Pull ABC TV Ads; Anger Over 'Excessive Stories' 'Punishment for Reporting' as Southeast Dealers Shift Commercial Money to Non-ABC Stations By JOSEPH RHEE and MARK SCHONE Feb. 8, 2010 Toyota dealers in five southeast states have pulled their commercials off ABC TV local affiliates, complaining about the coverage of Toyota safety problems by ABC News and its chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross. Executives decide whether to recall the Prius over software glitch.The ad agency representing the 173 dealers told ABC affiliates last week that the shift was due to "excessive stories on the Toyota issues." The dealers shifted...

Adam Lambert Furor Spreads to Gay Community REUTERS November 25, 2009 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert on Wednesday admitted he got carried away during his racy American Music Awards performance, as furor over his singing and dancing stoked a wider controversy in the U.S. gay community. More than 14 million people watched the gay, glam rocker close the live AMA telecast on Sunday with a performance that included Lambert kissing a male keyboard player and pushing the head of another performer into his crotch. Complaints poured in to the ABC TV network that aired the show,...

"And so we choose the men and women of the USO, bringing a little fun and a nation's thanks to those who serve us far from home."

Barbara Walters, famed for celebrity television interviews that often draw on-screen tears, says she's tired of Britney, Paris and the tabloid trend she helped create. Walters, a pioneering journalist who became the first female U.S. network news anchor 30 years ago, has interviewed every U.S. president since Richard Nixon and other heads of state. More recently, she has been credited and criticized for soft interviews that elevated celebrity news above all else. Now, before her annual show, "The 10 Most Fascinating People," airing on ABC on Thursday, the 78-year-old television journalist said she wants to focus on other topics. "I...

Homosexual Group Measures TV Stations for Gayness: ABC and CW Lead in Pro-Gay Programming By Peter J. Smith LOS ANGELES, August 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A leading homosexual activist organization has released a report measuring the prevalence of favorable lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) material on major US television networks. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) issued its first GLAAD Network Responsibility Index to measure TV networks' "quantity, quality, and diversity" of homosexual propaganda shown during primetime programming. According to the study, ABC leads the five major networks (ABC, CBS, The CW, FOX, and NBC) in primetime...

This letter is in regard to an episode of “Brothers and Sisters” which airs on ABC on Sundays from 9-10pm central time. The blatant homosexuality displayed in the episode which was on Easter Sunday, April 8 was totally inappropriate on the most important Christian observance. In Leviticus 20:13 it clearly states that “If a man lies with a male as with a woman both of them have committed an abomination.” Here, the interpretation is clear—homosexuality is against God’s law and it shouldn’t be shown on TV, especially on Easter Sunday. Following is a list of sponsors for that episode which...

Recently, the hosts of ABC’s daytime gabfest, The View, scurrilously insulted the American military. Resident termagant, host Rosie O’Donnell asked, “…Why do people enlist in the Army?” Co-host Ricki Lake replied, “To get an education, and they're poor - and that’s the only way to get one.” This specious allegation has been refuted several times during the past twenty years. Studies conducted by the Rand Corporation, the Department of Defense and the Heritage Foundation - documented by me in two articles, Rangel was Wrong (2003, Front Page Magazine) and Eugene Debs Syndrome (2004, Accuracy in Academia and 2005, Human Events)...

ABC went ahead Sunday with its slightly tweaked but still controversial miniseries, The Path to 9/11. And while former Clinton administration officials still seethed at, what former counterterrorism czar and current ABC News consultant Richard Clarke called "an egregious distortion," many of them joined the rest of the country and simply didn't watch. A week's worth of complaints from the Clintonites and others didn't convince ABC to pull the five-hour, commerical-free $40 million docudrama. Instead, the network recut the movie, deemphasized its reliance on the 9/11 Commission Report as primary source material and urged naysayers to watch the finished product...

Thanks to Save the Solders, you now can see the clips from The Path to 9/11 unedited. The Pre-edited video clips Clinton & the Democrats dont want you to see! "The Path To 9/11" Airs on ABC September 10th & 11th @ 8/7c Check in all day today and tomorrow for updates and more exlusive "The Path to 9/11" content. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 of 6 Watch Video Against a barren central Asian landscape, an American special action team moves in for a "snatch" operation on Osama bin Laden. But back in Washington, DC, Clinton's National Security Advisor cannot bring himself...

September 11, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - ABC scrubbed some of the most provocative material out of its "Path to 9/11" miniseries, which began last night, yielding to pressure from former President Bill Clinton. The network defied his demand that it pull the two-part series, but it re-edited material the former president said reinvented history to blame his administration for failing to nab Osama Bin Laden in the 1990s. Conspicuously absent from earlier edits of the film was real-life video of Clinton's court deposition in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But the movie still included Clinton's famous finger-wagging statement that he "did...

NEW YORK -- ABC made several editing changes to the first part of its miniseries "The Path to 9/11" following furious protests by Clinton administration officials that it fabricated scenes about their actions prior to the terrorist attacks. But the network resisted calls to cancel the $40 million miniseries, airing commercial-free over two nights. Part two is scheduled for Monday, with an interruption for President Bush's address to the nation. Several scenes were cut or changed from the movie that aired Sunday and finished 20 minutes shy of its three-hour time slot. ABC has called it a dramatization, not a...

Is abc's turnabout a lasting sign? Remember when IGER took over Disney? everybody was saying he was a republican or at least not a die hard liberal like the guy he replaced (isner). despite the small edits, do you think abc is actually trying to leave the (democrat media party) plantation?

NEW YORK - ABC aired its miniseries "The Path to 9/11" on Sunday but made editing changes after former Clinton administration officials complained it contained fabricated scenes about their actions prior to the terrorist attacks. ABC's editing of the five-hour movie, airing on two successive nights starting Sunday, was evident from the very beginning. Twice, the network de-emphasized the role of the 9/11 commission's final report as source material for the film. The version that aired Sunday also changed a scene that, in a copy of the movie given to television critics a few weeks ago, indicated President Clinton's preoccupation...

After minor edits in response to Democratic critics, the miniseries will air as scheduled. It's already set off a bitter election-year dispute. Walt Disney Co.'s ABC is forging ahead with plans to air a miniseries starting Sunday despite controversy over its efforts to dramatize — and some say unfairly politicize — the events leading up to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Producers said late Friday that they had finished making minor edits to "The Path to 9/11" amid a firestorm of protests from leading Democrats including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who warned that telecasting "right-wing political propaganda" might violate...

What drama! ABC has a five-hour miniseries coming up titled "The Path to 9/11." The first episode airs this coming Sunday night at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. This docu-drama is causing quite a stir in Washington ... and especially in the Clinton camp. The problem, you see, is that in this movie the Clinton Administration is portrayed as treating Islamic terrorism as nothing more than a law enforcement problem. There is one scene in the move where Intelligence officials are discussing an attempt to kill or capture Osama bin Laden. The Clinton administration is refusing to authorize the action. Permission denied....

ABC has changed its "The Path to 9/11" television special, set for a commercial-free broadcast Sunday and Monday, because of pressure over the message it carries, according to a report on a television blog site. The network heard from a number of leading political figures, many of them Democrats, who complained of alleged inaccuracies and bias in the production, according to the report in the Los Angeles Times' CalendarLive.com website. The report said the five-hour docudrama also is in the middle of an information war between a left-wing organization that wants changes made in the film and conservative blogs defending...

Top Senate Democrats urged the Walt Disney Co. on Thursday to cancel The Path to 9-11, but ABC said it would air the epic docudrama about events leading up to the terrorist attacks five years ago. "Presenting such deeply flawed and factually inaccurate misinformation to the American public and to children would be a gross miscarriage of your corporate and civic responsibility to the law, to your shareholders and to the nation," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and four others wrote. Reid and his colleagues sent the letter to Bob Iger, Disney's chief executive officer. The senators warned Iger that...

The author of The Path to 9/11 is going to be LIVE, in-studio on The John Ziegler Show at 8pm Pacific. You can listen live ONLINE or if you're in Southern CA, tune in to KFI at 640AM. From John Ziegler.Com: If you want to tell ABC to not cave to Clinton's demands in the editing of "The Path to 9/11," call 818-460-7477. If you want to complain about the movies lessons plans being dropped by "Scholastic," go to this link for contact information. http://www.scholastic.com/aboutscholastic/offices/index.htm