ABC (newspaper)
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| ABC | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Compact |
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| Owner | Grupo Vocento |
| Publisher | Catalina Luca de Tena |
| Editor | Ángel Expósito |
| Founded | January 1, 1903 |
| Political allegiance | Center-right, monarchist |
| Language | Spanish |
| Price | €1.10 daily, 1.90 Sunday in Spain; higher elsewhere |
| Headquarters | Juan Ignacio de Tena 7, Madrid 28027  Spain |
| Circulation | 240,225 daily in 2006[1] |
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| Website: www.abc.es | |
ABC is a Spanish national daily newspaper founded in Madrid on January 1, 1903, by Torcuato Luca de Tena y Alvarez-Ossorio. ABC started as a weekly newspaper until it turned daily in June 1905. Today, ABC is the third largest general-interest newspaper in Spain, and the oldest newspaper still operating in Madrid. ABC is often referred to as a newspaper of record from Spain, along with El País and El Mundo.
ABC is known for generally supporting conservative political views and defending the Spanish monarchy, and was seized in 1936 by the Popular Front (Frente Popular) when the Spanish Civil War started.
During the civil war, ABC famously published two different versions, the Madrid edition supporting the Republic and the Seville edition supporting the Nationalist side. When the war was over, ABC in Madrid was given back to its legitimate owners and once again became the largest newspaper in Spain.
It later moved from its historic landmark offices in Madrid by Paseo de la Castellana, which are now a shopping mall.
Today, ABC publishes in compact-sized stapled sheets, noticeably smaller than the loose tabloid format favoured by most Spanish dailies, including El País and El Mundo. Its cover distinctively features a full-size picture contrasting with the assorted selection of news and images of the competition.
After the joint-venture that resulted in Grupo Vocento, it has soothed the hard layout and reading and taken a more moderate stance than other conservative media outlets, including the refulsal to second conspiracy theories related to the 2004 Madrid train bombings (locally known as 11-M).
Its former director Luis María Anson abruptly left to run another daily catering for a more severe market niche, La Razón.
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- ^ Figures covering January to December 2006 from Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión, accessed April 26, 2007.
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