ESPN on ABC

ESPN on ABC (formerly ABC Sports) is an American sports programming division for ESPN, a division of The Walt Disney Company in partnership with Hearst Communications and the National Football League (NFL) that is responsible for sports broadcasts on their broadcast network ABC, the cable channels ESPN owns and ESPN's namesake streaming service. It was founded as ABC Sports on April 29, 1961.

ABC broadcasts use ESPN's production and announcing staff, and incorporate elements such as ESPN-branded on-screen graphics, SportsCenter in-game updates, and the BottomLine ticker. The ABC logo is still used for identification purposes such as a digital on-screen graphic during sports broadcasts on the network, and in promotions to disambiguate events airing the broadcast network from those shown on the ESPN cable channel.

The broadcast network's sports event coverage carried the ABC Sports logo prior to the merger on September 2, 2006. When ABC acquired a controlling interest in ESPN in 1984, it operated the cable network separately from its network sports division.

The integration of ABC Sports with ESPN began after The Walt Disney Company bought ABC in 1996. The name change to ESPN on ABC was made to better orient ESPN viewers with event telecasts on ABC and provide consistent coverage for all sports broadcasts on Disney-owned channels (shortly thereafter, ESPN2's in-game graphics were likewise altered to simply use the main ESPN logo). Despite its name, ABC's sports coverage is supplemental to ESPN and (with occasional exceptions) not a simulcast of programs aired by the network.

Since 2021, ABC is the only Big Three network to have rights to broadcast games from all four major professional leagues at the same time, due to joint contracts with ESPN and those four leagues.