34-549: Lateline was an Australian television news program which ran from 1990 until 2017. The program initially aired weeknights on ABC TV . In later years it was also broadcast internationally throughout Asia and the Pacific on the Australia Plus Satellite Network, and on the 24-hour ABC News Channel. The late evening current affairs program developed a longstanding reputation for setting the agenda of
68-634: A Logie Award for "Most Outstanding News Coverage" for her story about sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory . ABC TV (Australian TV channel) ABC TV , formerly known as ABC1 , is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , and is the flagship ABC Television network. The headquarters of
102-470: A state ABC News bulletin at 7:00 pm, with a state-based edition of The 7.30 Report following afterwards. Lateline and Media Watch also launched in the 1980s. In 2001 a new logo was launched, featuring a modification to a three-dimensional metallic design, to celebrate the introduction of digital terrestrial television in Australia , when digital television was introduced to most of
136-603: A strong focus on news and current affairs, it also presents documentaries and educational programs, drama, light entertainment comedy and variety, and sports. ABC News , broadcast on the ABC, is a national news service produced by the News, Analysis & Investigations division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A number of bulletins and updates are shown throughout the day, which include
170-411: Is often interrupted to show state election coverage. Each state and territory's individual station is based on that of its capital city, meaning that in the state of Victoria, all programmes originate from either Melbourne or Sydney, where the remainder of programmes are broadcast from. ABC is broadcast nationally via ABC Television transmitters, in a standard definition format. The ABC HD multi-channel
204-584: The 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, with the first television broadcast was inaugurated by prime minister Robert Menzies on 5 November 1956 at the Gore Hill studios in Sydney, followed two weeks later by transmission in Melbourne. A purpose-built television studio opened in Sydney on 29 January 1958, replacing the temporary sound studios used the service's inception. In the same year, technical equipment
238-525: The Television Act was passed, providing the initial regulatory framework for both ABC Television and commercial television networks under the ABC. The ABC's 1956 Annual Report stated that it aimed to create a "television service as truly national in character as its resources will permit". The first ABC station was launched in Sydney, ABN-2 , followed by ABV-2 in Melbourne , in time to cover
272-463: The digital television transition in Australia, the ABC gradually ended its transmissions on analogue TV which commenced in July 2010 and concluded on 10 December 2013 when the transmitters switched off in Melbourne and remaining remote areas. On 6 February 2011, ABC1 launched its new branding via idents featuring a range of channel personalities, including the face of the channel Adam Hills , with
306-564: The ABC News channel and ABC throughout the day; however evening updates are shown in most states by their respective presenters. Other flagship programs, which include the weeknightly 7.30 and the weekly Four Corners , Australian Story and Foreign Correspondent , are broadcast in prime-time. Landline , Insiders , Offsiders , Media Watch cover rural, political and business, sport and media affairs respectively. ABC Television, Radio, News and Online cover many sports. It
340-617: The ABC TV channel and the ABC are in Ultimo , an inner-city suburb of Sydney. The network began operating on 5 November 1956 as the ABC National Television Service , starting in Sydney, followed by Melbourne, with other stations being established in state capitals and regional areas in the following years. In the 1960s and 1970s, the network was also referred to as ABC National Television , or ABC Television . Until
374-542: The ABC would recommence simulcasting in high definition in June 2016. However, the launch date was later pushed back to an indefinite time in late 2016 due to technical reasons, with the launch date finally announced as 6 December 2016. However, in contrast to its past, ABC HD provided region-specific simulcasting, not just a nationwide simulcast of ABN Sydney . Additionally, the channel broadcast in MPEG-4 format as opposed to
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#1732791641632408-491: The Australian Labor Party. Later hosts included Tony Jones , Leigh Sales , Ali Moore , and Emma Alberici . The most notable aspect of the format when it premiered was that many guests appeared via satellite. Whether in the studio or on the other side of the world all the guests would appear as 'remote', on TV monitors beside the host. The time slot of the program greatly improved the prospective line up of
442-714: The Grand Final. The deal included 14 rounds of the W-League's 2019/20 Season and the whole W-League 2020 Finals Series, and many games played by the Socceroos and Matildas. However, from August 2021, both the A-League and W-League begin a five-year deal with ViacomCBS giving broadcast rights to Network 10 . ABC varies depending on state and territory in terms of what 7:00 pm news bulletin, state-edition of 7.30 , and some promotions, are shown. National programming
476-581: The broadcaster launches new investigative and specialist journalism teams. The management of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation announced the termination of the Lateline program, after 28 years on air, on 5 October 2017, though assuring its full resources until the end of the Australian TV season in December of the same year. The Corporation's news and current affairs chief, Gaven Morris, cited
510-493: The change in identity was the change from the slogan There's more to television to It begins with 1 . After concerns in some sections of the media that the 43-year-old Lissajous curve brand was to disappear completely, ABC management reaffirmed that it would remain in use by the corporation. In May 2010, ABC1 announced its first channel controller, BBC Worldwide 's Brendan Dahill. He commenced in August 2010. As part of
544-631: The co host of the program with Tony Jones in 2012. Esteemed reporters on the program included Margot O'Neill , John Stewart, Kerry Brewster, Ginny Stein, Jason Om, Jamie Cummins, David Lipson, Barbara Miller, Helen Vatsikopoulos and Matt Wordsworth . Former presenters included: Kerry O'Brien , Mark Colvin , Maxine McKew , Virginia Trioli , Leigh Sales , Ali Moore , Ticky Fullerton , and Tony Jones . Recipients of Walkley Awards from Lateline include Maxine McKew in 1998 and Tony Jones, who received Walkley awards for broadcast interviewing in 2004, 2007 and 2011. Reporter Suzanne Smith in 2005 won
578-405: The demise of the program as being due to changes in audience preference and digital disruption from the internet. The Australian non-commercial broadcaster has proposed a new approach to in-depth, investigative reporting, also announcing a new program and improved multi-platform support for other, existing programs. The show was hosted by Emma Alberici in its final years. Alberici was appointed as
612-465: The early 1960s and wrote in his memoir that he had been paid for it. A staff competition was conducted in July 1963 to create a new logo for the ABC. Bill Kennard, who was senior graphic designer at the ABC between 1956 and 1974, came up with the winning design, praised as "crisp, functional and of its age", for which he was paid £25. On 1 May 1964, the logo was officially adopted by the ABC. The logo has been adapted and modified several times over
646-517: The flagship state-based evening bulletins of ABC News at 7.00 pm, focused on local, national and international news relevant to their entire respective state or territory. In addition, News Breakfast is broadcast each morning and it is also shown on the ABC News channel , ABC News at Noon , a national edition of ABC News, is broadcast at noon live from the ABC's studios in Ultimo, Sydney . News updates are presented nationally only on both
680-410: The following days' news across the continent. It was well known to feature head-to-head debates on current issues, hard hitting political interviews, and attracted the appearance of many world leaders in industry, politics and media. It was labelled by the influential Australian online website Crikey magazine as being, "an unmissable current affairs program that almost certainly creates more headlines in
714-478: The four eastern capitals. Videotape equipment, allowing the sharing of footage with much greater ease and speed, was installed in each state capital by 1962. Teletext services were introduced to the television service in 1983 to allow hearing impaired viewers access to closed captions . Nationwide , successor to This Day Tonight , was replaced in turn by a new, hour-long, national news program called The National . Having proved unsuccessful, it reverted to
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#1732791641632748-477: The introduction of digital television in 2001, the network was the only domestic television service broadcast by the ABC. On 8 February 2008, the channel was renamed ABC1, before being rebranded as ABC TV on 20 July 2014. As of 2023, the ABC is the third-rated television network and primary channel in Australia, behind the Seven Network and Nine Network but ahead of Network 10 and SBS TV . In 1953
782-448: The network's coverage area on 1 January 2001, soon followed by the gradual introduction of widescreen and high definition programming. On 1 August 2001 on channel 21, ABC Kids was launched, becoming the first digital multi-channel service, with Fly TV following soon afterwards, but both had limited availability, and were closed in a round of funding cuts in 2003. On 7 March 2005 a new digital channel called ABC2 (now ABC Family)
816-466: The new tagline "Think Entertainment", designed by design agency The Lab. The network's famous Lissajous curve logo was modified by adding a "1". ABC1 channel controller Brendan Dahill moved to ABC1 / ABC2 Head of Programming on 1 January 2014. On 20 July 2014, ABC1 reverted to just "ABC" and introduced new idents featuring the 1975 Lissajous curve logo being drawn by itself of videos of people doing activities (taken from ABC Open's video library). Then,
850-526: The next day's newspapers than any other TV show in the country." The program's late timeslot in AEST benefited enormously from its favourable alignment with overseas correspondents. When Lateline premiered on 13 February 1990, it was a thirty-minute single-topic debate forum hosted by Kerry O'Brien , broadcast nationally on ABC-TV from Canberra. Airing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights in 1990 and 1991, and expanding to Monday to Thursday from 1992 onwards,
884-627: The overseas contributors and enabled the show to interpolate the Australian perspective with relevant, international viewpoints. In 2000, the program was moved from Canberra to the TV network's headquarters in Sydney. Lateline thereafter incorporated the ABC Late News , a ten-minute news-break style rundown of the day's top stories and important events from the day. In October 2017, the ABC announced that after 28 years Lateline would be cut as
918-415: The program opened with a short video piece examining the perceived most compelling topic at hand in news and current affairs on the given day with disciplined, journalistic balance. O'Brien then followed the video with a moderated debate between two and four participants for the duration of the program. It was later hosted by Maxine McKew who retired from broadcasting in 2006 to pursue a political career with
952-470: The time, lissajous patterns (a waveform used by oscilloscopes ) were used by broadcast engineers to help tune both radio and television frequencies, before more sophisticated electronic tools had been invented. The 3:1 ratio was chosen because the 2:1 ratio was being used by the University of Sydney at the time. Space engineer Doug Rickard claims to have suggested and demonstrated the waveform in
986-436: The traditional MPEG-2 format. As a result of the channel's revival, the ABC News channel was reduced to a standard definition broadcast. Most ABC TV programs are also available on demand via ABC iview , a video-on-demand and catch-up TV service which became available on 24 July 2008. In the early years, ABC TV had been using Lissajous curves with its initials, ABC TV, inside it as fillers in-between programmes. At
1020-485: The words "It's (Insert Words Here)'s ABC" (the words change depending on the ident) fade in on the left side of the logo. The words then change to "#OurABC", which was the network's then-new slogan. The "#OurABC" slogan at the end of each ident was changed to "Yours" on 31 December 2017. The 1975 logo was reinstated in February 2019. The ABC is required by charter to meet certain programming obligations. Although it has
1054-443: Was also moved to permanent locations, while main transmitters were introduced to Melbourne and Sydney in 1957 and 1958 respectively. Services had expanded to all of the other states by the end of June 1960. Direct television relays between Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra were established in 1961, and in 1963, using microwave transmission as a temporary measure, television programs from Adelaide were viewed simultaneously across
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1088-542: Was launched on 1 January 2008. The service provided a 720p simulcast of ABN Sydney nationwide. The channel was closed on 22 July 2010 and its HD channel space was re-purposed for the ABC News channel . ABC HD was relaunched on 6 December 2016 as a simulcast of ABC, localised to each state, reducing the news channel to SD. Following the government's decision to remove SD primary channel limitations, ABC Director of Television Richard Finlayson announced in November 2015 that
1122-468: Was launched, according to then Director of ABC New Media and Digital Services Lynley Marshall, "like the 'younger sibling' of ABC main channel", running on a very low budget. A large amount of its schedule was dedicated to regional issues, with programs such as Australia Wide , Landline and Stateline . At midday on 8 February 2008 ABC TV was re-branded as ABC1, with the standard-definition redirect channel moved from LCN22 to LCN2. Further cementing
1156-629: Was the first broadcaster of the W-League ( football ), a partnership that remained from 2008 to 2017. From October 2019 for the first time, ABC Television was the official free-to-air partner of the A-League , as well as returning to the W-League, in a deal which included the Socceroos and Matildas and lasted for two years. ABC TV broadcast one A-League game a weekend live, and has had the right to broadcast delayed coverage of some finals matches and
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