ABC News Live Streaming Service

ABC News Live is America’s #1 24/7 streaming news channel, reaching 110 million people monthly. Viewers can watch live coverage as news breaks, filled with compelling analysis and powerful stories they won’t see anywhere else.

In 2019, viewers streamed over 1.1 million hours a week. That number that keeps growing steadily and has been so successful that ABC News Live has begun to feature a new primetime line-up produced by our world-class storytellers, award-winning producers and seasoned correspondents. Innovative, insightful 2020 election coverage from our distinguished political team is already front and center.

We have included examples of two big breaking news stories from 2019 - National Correspondent Marcus Moore and team reporting on Hurricane Dorian, the most intense hurricane on record to strike the Bahamas since record keeping began, and correspondent Ian Pannell on-the-ground before and after the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, and on the horrific humanitarian crisis that ensued in its’ wake.

ABC News is home to world-class on-demand content. In 2019, in addition to bringing viewers our flagship daily podcast Start Here, and the acclaimed Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris, we premiered six new podcasts including the international chart-topping The Dropout, public service podcast Life After Suicide aiming to empower millions of suicide survivors grappling with the trauma of sudden loss, and the real-time nationwide manhunt for an escaped death row inmate in Have You Seen This Man.

The team behind The Dropout sought to go beyond the eye-catching headlines in order to illustrate the devastating impact Theranos’ founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes’ alleged fraud had on the real lives of Theranos’ employees, everyday investors and nearly 200,000 patients. The three years spent accessing never before heard deposition tapes and exclusive interviews shed light on the dangers of Silicon Valley’s “fake it ‘til you make it” culture that thrives on the success of outside perceptions while insiders are exposed to an alternate reality.

The three-member, all-female ABC News team worked tirelessly on this six-part podcast, conducting over 100 interviews with key players at the heart of this story, including employees, board members, patients, and investors. They gained access to tens of thousands of pages of deposition transcripts, excerpts of which were aired publicly for the first time in this podcast, exposing the truth, rather than the carefully crafted image Holmes had presented to powerful board members, patients, and the world. The Dropout sought to unmask the very real dangers of hubris in Silicon Valley and the healthcare industry. The team hoped to expose the layers of this elaborate, multi-year fraud in a clear and impactful way in order to influence how these cultures might be perceived and governed going forward.

Original Digital Features:

ABC News makes original digital features which give viewers a personal and more complete understanding of complex issues flooding the news cycle. These features span the globe, from the story of a life unjustly caught up in the Russian criminal justice system to powerful testimonials from people at the heart of one of the fiercest political and environmental debates of the Trump era, to the journey of a long-distance runner as she tries to cross the world's deepest lake, testing her limits at the end of the earth. We have included one feature for your viewing:

English teacher Gaylen Grandstaff was living an ordinary life in Moscow with his wife Anna when an online delivery changed everything. For two years the American was trapped in a Russian jail and on trial for international drug smuggling for ordering a cheap bottle of metal cleaner which, unknown to him, contained a banned substance. Facing over a decade in prison if found guilty, Grandstaff communicated his hardships and heartbreak to his wife through cartoon drawings depicting his experiences in jail, which along with ABC’s unmatched access to the trial, tells the story of a life unjustly caught up in the Russian criminal justice system.

ABC’s reporting efforts seem to have had an effect on the Russian judge who acknowledged the holes in ABC uncovered, releasing him arbitrarily. It’s rare as a foreign journalist in today’s Russia to feel you have had a direct, positive impact on someone’s life. Gaylen Grandstaff thanked ABC News directly for his release saying without ABC’s presence in court and pressing questions to authorities he doubts he would be free today.

Exclusive Investigations:

The ABC News Investigative Unit spent 18 months of reporting on sexual abuse allegations in the sport of figure skating launched in the wake of the horrifying sexual abuse scandal that rocked elite gymnastics. Richard Callaghan, one of figure skating’s most celebrated coaches, was permitted to continue coaching young skaters for nearly two decades despite the sport’s national governing body receiving multiple allegations of sexual abuse or misconduct against him.

That changed last year, after ABC News aired an exclusive interview with Adam Schmidt, a former student of Callaghan, who alleged that he was sexually abused by Callaghan in the years after those earlier abuse allegations were dismissed.

Data Driven Coverage/Statistical Analysis

FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, science, economics and modern life. We fortified ABC News’ political coverage by bringing cutting-edge political forecasters FiveThirtyEight into the ABC News family in 2018. At a time when politics has never been more extraordinary and confusing, in 2019 FiveThirtyEight has helped to bring more clarity and insight to what’s really going on with comprehensive statistical analysis and data visualization.

A Tale Of Two Suburbs

For Cleveland suburbs Shaker and Parma, they have had little in common other than that, until recently, Democratic presidential candidates could count on their votes. But in 2016, Parma voted for Donald Trump, and Shaker didn’t. To Clevelanders, this split followed a certain logic. Shaker and Parma have long been of different tribes, though the same political party.

The two cities, one racially mixed, the other homogenous, become fivethirtyeight’s reference point for looking at the cultural fissure in the Democratic Party that gaped open with the election of Trump. White Americans have split politically along class lines, and their alienation from each other following 2016 seems utter and complete. But the split that’s happening isn’t just between residents of rural and urban places. It’s also apparent in some suburbs, among people whose lives aren’t, at least on the surface, all that different from one another’s.