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Which company did ABC's corporate parent merge with in the 1980s after acquiring an 80% interest in ESPN?

  • Capital Cities Communications

  • Time Warner

  • Viacom

  • Comcast

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In the 1980s, after purchasing an 80% interest in cable sports channel ESPN, ABC's corporate parent, American Broadcasting Companies, , merged with Capital Cities Communications, which owned several print publications, television, and radio stations.
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