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This article is about the personal name. For the surname, see David (surname).

The given name "David" may refer to:

Medieval

Late antiquity to early medieval

David was adopted as a Christian name from at least the 6th century.

• David the Invincible (6th century), Neoplatonic philosopher
• David (commentator) (6th century), Greek scholar
• Saint David (6th century), patron saint of Wales
• David the Dendrite (c. –), a patron saint of Thessaloniki
• David (son of Heraclius) (b. ), co-emperor of Byzantium
• David Saharuni (7th century), presiding prince of Byzantine-controlled Armenia
• David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas (d. ), Arabic philosopher and controversialist, the author of the earliest known Jewish philosophical work of the Middle Ages
• David I of Iberia (d. )
• David II of Iberia (d. )
• David of Bulgaria (d. ), Bulgarian noble
• David III of Tao (d. )

High medieval

• Saint David of Muscovy or Gleb (–), brother of Saint Roman of Muscovy or Boris, and son of Saint Vladimir
• David of Taman, late 10th century Khazar ruler
• David (Da'ud), 11th-century ruler of the Seljuk Turks
• David of Munktorp (died c. )
• David I of Scotland (d. ), Roman Catholic saint
• David Kimhi (–), Medieval rabbi
• David Mac Cerbaill (died ), English archbishop
• David of Makuria (ruled c. –), ruler of Makuria (in what is now Egypt and Sudan)
• David Soslan (d. ), Georgian prince
• Kings of Georgia:

Late medieval and early modern

• David, Lord of Brechin (d. )
• David II of Scotland ( – 22 February )
• Kings of Georgia:
• Davit as a name adopted by Emperors of Ethiopia:
• David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra (–), Spanish Acharon
• David ben Solomon ibn Yahya (–), Spanish rabbi
• David ben Yom Tov ibn Bilia, Portuguese-Jewish philosopher
• David Bek (d. ), Armenian military commander
• David Davidsz de Heem (–), Dutch painter
• David ibn Ya'ish (d. ), Spanish-Jewish writer
• David Gwyn (fl. ), English poet
• David Reubeni (–/?), Jewish political activist and mystic
• Da

News division of ABC

For the Australian version of ABC News owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, see ABC News (Australia).

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight with David Muir; other programs include morning news-talk showGood Morning America, Nightline, Primetime, 20/20, and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos. In addition to the division's television programs, ABC News has radio and digital outlets, including ABC News Radio and ABC News Live, plus various podcasts hosted by ABC News personalities. ABC News advertises itself as "America's #1 news source."

History

20th-century origins

ABC began in as the NBC Blue Network, a radio network that was spun off from NBC, as ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in The reason for the order was to expand competition in radio broadcasting in the United States, specifically news and political broadcasting, and broaden the projected points of view. Only a few companies, such as NBC and CBS, dominated the radio market. NBC conducted the split voluntarily in case its appeal of the ruling was denied, and it was forced to split its two networks into separate companies.

Regular television news broadcasts on ABC began soon after the network signed on its initial owned-and-operated television station (WJZ-TV, now WABC-TV) and production center in New York City in August Broadcasts continued as the ABC network expanded nationwide. Until the early s, ABC News programs and ABC in general consistently ranked third in viewership behind CBS and NBC news programs. ABC had fewer affiliate stations and a weaker prime-time programming slate to support the network's news operations compared to the two larger networks, each of which had established their radio news operations during the s.

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