Freeform

ABC Family is a cable channel owned by Disney and ABC. It was orignally founded in 1977 as The CBN Cable Network by Evangelical minister Pat Robertson, as extension to his television ministry, over time the network started airing less and less religous programming. In 1988 to reflect, the change in format, the channel changed it's name to The Family Channel. By, 1990, CBN spun off the network, because it had grown too profitable for the ministry. In 1997, Fox and Saban bought the network and changed the network to Fox Family Channel the next year in 2002, ABC bought the channel and gave it its current name.