ABN (TV station)


ABN is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Sydney. The station began broadcasting on 5 November 1956. Its original studios were located in Gore Hill, New South Wales and were in use up until March 2004, when they were co-located with ABC Radio, Radio Australia, ABC-TV Set Construction and Australia Network at the Corporation's headquarters in the inner city suburb of Ultimo, New South Wales. Its main transmitter, however, remains at Gore Hill. The station can be received throughout the state through a number of relay transmitters, as well as satellite transmission on the Optus Aurora platform.

History

ABN-2 Sydney opened on 5 November 1956 with full-time colour broadcasting introduced in March 1975.
For more than 40 years, Gore Hill was best known as the location of the ABC's Sydney television studios, which were fully opened in 1958 and which operated until 2002, when the site was closed and sold off. Later, the ABC moved its television operations to its broadcasting centre in Ultimo.
The station has also carried a number of programs originally produced at Channel 31 stations in other states (programs such as Aurora Community Channel & National Indigenous Television.
ABN commenced digital television transmission in January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 12 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 2.
The analogue signal for ABN was shut off at 9.00am AEDST, Tuesday, 3 December 2013.

Programming

Local programming

ABN's schedule is similar to the national ABC schedule, with the exception of some news, current affairs, sport and occasionally, election programming.
ABC News New South Wales is presented by Juanita Phillips and Jeremy Fernandez. The weeknight bulletins also incorporate NSW weather forecasts presented by Graham Creed as well as a national finance segment presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne.
Nicole Chettle and Chris Bath are fill in presenters for the bulletin.

Networked programming

Relay stations

The following stations relay ABN throughout New South Wales:
CallRegion servedCityChannels
'		First air date3rd letter's
meaning		ERP
'		HAAT
'1		Transmitter coordinatesTransmitter location
ABCNCentral TablelandsOrange1 7
36 		31 March 1964Central Tablelands160 kW
570 kW		655 m
677 m		Mount Canobolas
ABDNGrafton/KempseyCoffs Harbour2 8
36 		28 June 1965160 kW
250 kW		661 m
730 m		Mount Moombil
ABGNMurrumbidgee Irrigation AreaGriffith7 7
11 		25 July 1966Griffith200 kW
50 kW		416 m
412 m		Mount Bingar
ABHNNewcastle/Hunter RiverNewcastle5A 2 8
37 		5 June 1963Hunter River200 kW
250 kW		405 m
440 m
Mount Sugarloaf
ABLNBroken HillBroken Hill2 6
10 		14 December 19655 kW
4 kW		95 m
104 m		Rocky Hill
ABMNSouth Western Slopes and Eastern RiverinaWagga Wagga0 7
46 		30 April 1965200 kW
600 kW		466 m
543 m		Mount Ulandra
ABMINMungindiMungindi10
NA		1 January 1974MungindI0.1 kW59 mMungindi
ABQNCentral Western SlopesDubbo11 3 7
12 		12 September 1966400 kW
100 kW		638 m
638 m		Mount Cenn Cruaich
ABRNRichmond and TweedLismore6 8
29 		20 April 1964Richmond and Tweed200 kW
200 kW		621 m
645 m		Mount Nardi
ABSNBega/CoomaBega8 7
NA		29 June 1966South East200 kW428 mBrown Mountain
ABTNManning RiverTaree6 4 8
7 		29 April 1966Taree315 kW
80 kW		599 m
599 m		Middle Brother
ABUNUpper NamoiTamworth7 8
8 		27 September 1965Upper Namoi72 kW
22.5 kW		859 m
849 m		Mount Dowe
ABWNIllawarraWollongong56 5 7
51 		28 October 1963W'''ollongong960 kW
250 kW		618 m
618 m
Knights Hill

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