By Josh Albarran
New York - We now found out that earlier this month, ABC announced that the Disney-owned television network will restart its radio division as they will partnered with Skyview Networks to distribute ABC's brand of radio properties (including ABC Sports Radio) beginning on January 1, 2015 once its current deal with Cumulus Media Networks comes to a end.
ABC as far as most of us know that they had been out of the radio business since 2007 when The Walt Disney Company sold the original ABC Radio Networks to Citadel Broadcasting (which has since been merged to Cumulus Media Networks), but the American Broadcasting Company kept the ownership of ABC News Radio as well as ABC Sports Radio and its entertainment and digital assets for distribution from Citadel/Cumulus.
ABC Sports Radio doesn't had rights to broadcast sporting events as with the major radio networks are, but only broadcasts reports and updates produced by ABC News.
Disney also owns the ESPN Radio Network, Radio Disney and their 30 owned-and-operated stations (6 from ESPN Radio and 24 from Radio Disney), although both ESPN Radio and Radio Disney may not be part of the ABC Radio division and remain separated, but both ABC Radio and Radio Disney will be a part of the Disney-ABC Television Group as ESPN Radio is part of the sports empire which Disney controls ESPN with 80% owned.
To learn more about ABC Sports Radio and the rest of the ABC Radio property, log on to ABCRadio.com and click to affiliate or renew affiliation:
http://abcradio.go.com/
