ABN (TV station)

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Television station in New South Wales, Australia

ABN

* Sydney, New South Wales
* Australia

Channels|

* Digital: 12 (VHF)
* Virtual: 2

Programming
Language(s)| English
Affiliations| ABC Television
Ownership
Owner| Australian Broadcasting Corporation
History

First air date

| 5 November 1956; 68 years ago (1956-11-05)

Former channel number(s)

| 2 (VHF) (analog) (1956–2013)

Call sign meaning

| ABC New South Wales
Technical information

Licensing authority

| Australian Communications and Media Authority
ERP| 200 kW (analog)
50 kW (digital)
HAAT| 168 m (analog)
205 m (digital)[note 1]
Transmitter coordinates| 33°49′12″S 151°11′6″E﻿ / ﻿33.82000°S 151.18500°E﻿ / -33.82000; 151.18500﻿ (ABN)
Links
Website| www.abc.net.au/tv/

ABC Television in New South Wales comprises national and local programming on the ABC television network in the Australian state of New South Wales, headquartered in Sydney.

ABN or ABN-2 was the historic call sign of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Sydney. The very first national public television station in Australia officially and formally formal full grand opening night ceremony took place by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies in Sydney at stroke of night 7:00:00pm Sydney Time on 5 November 1956 under the call sign ABN-2 with the very first main flagship television presented by Michael Charlton and James Dibble reading the very first main flagship television news bulletin. Its original studios were located in Gore Hill and were in use up until March 2004, when they were co-located with ABC Radio, Radio Australia, ABC-TV Set Construction and ABC Australia at the Corporation's headquarters in the inner city suburb of Ultimo.[1] Its main transmitter, however, remains at Gore Hill.[2] The station can be received throughout the state through a number of relay transmitters, as well as domestic satellite transmission on the Viewer Access Satellite Television (formerly Optus Aurora) platform.

## History

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The very first national public television station in Australia officially and formally formal full grand opening night ceremony took place by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies in Sydney at stroke of night 7:00:00pm Sydney Time on 5 November 1956 under the call sign ABN-2 with the very first main flagship television presented by Michael Charlton and James Dibble reading the very first main flagship television news bulletin 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 and 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 television signal for Sydney, Gosford and surrounding areas was shut off at 9.00am on 3 December 2013.[3][4]

In December 2024, the 7pm ABC News bulletin moved from Ultimo to the Corporation's new studios in Parramatta.[5][6]

## Programming

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### Local programming

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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 Jeremy Fernandez (Sunday–Thursday) and Lydia Feng (Friday–Saturday). The weeknight bulletins also incorporate NSW weather forecasts presented by Tom Saunders as well as a national finance segment presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne.

## Digital multiplex

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LCN  | Service  | SD/HD

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2 & 21  | ABC TV | SD
20  | ABC TV HD | HD
22  | ABC Kids/Family | SD
23  | ABC Entertains | SD
24  | ABC News | SD

## Relay stations

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The following stations relay ABN throughout New South Wales:

Call  | Region served  | City  | Channels
(Analog/
digital) | First air date  | 3rd letter's
meaning  | ERP
(Analog/
digital) | HAAT
(Analog/
digital)[note 1] | Transmitter coordinates  | Transmitter location

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ABCN | Central Tablelands | Orange | 1 (VHF)[note 2]
36 (UHF)  | 31 March 1964  | Central Tablelands  | 160 kW
570 kW  | 655 m
677 m  | 33°20′32″S 148°59′1″E﻿ / ﻿33.34222°S 148.98361°E﻿ / -33.34222; 148.98361﻿ (ABCN) | Mount Canobolas
ABDN | Grafton/Kempsey | Coffs Harbour | 2 (VHF)[note 3]
36 (UHF)  | 28 June 1965  | Dorrigo  | 160 kW
250 kW  | 661 m
730 m  | 30°19′2″S 152°51′35″E﻿ / ﻿30.31722°S 152.85972°E﻿ / -30.31722; 152.85972﻿ (ABDN) | Mount Moombil
ABGN | Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area | Griffith | 7 (VHF)[note 2]
11 (VHF)  | 25 July 1966  | Griffith  | 200 kW
50 kW  | 416 m
412 m  | 34°7′17″S 146°14′7″E﻿ / ﻿34.12139°S 146.23528°E﻿ / -34.12139; 146.23528﻿ (ABGN) | Mount Bingar
ABHN | Newcastle/Hunter Valley | Newcastle | 5A (VHF)[note 4][note 3]
37 (UHF)  | 5 June 1963  | Hunter River  | 200 kW
250 kW  | 405 m
440 m  | 32°53′30″S 151°32′18″E﻿ / ﻿32.89167°S 151.53833°E﻿ / -32.89167; 151.53833﻿ (ABHN) (analog)
32°53′24″S 151°32′20″E﻿ / ﻿32.89000°S 151.53889°E﻿ / -32.89000; 151.53889﻿ (ABHN) (digital)  | Mount Sugarloaf
ABLN | Broken Hill | Broken Hill | 2 (VHF)[note 5]
10 (VHF)  | 14 December 1965  | Unknown  | 5 kW
4 kW  | 95 m
104 m  | 31°57′5″S 141°26′26″E﻿ / ﻿31.95139°S 141.44056°E﻿ / -31.95139; 141.44056﻿ (ABLN) | Rocky Hill
ABMN | South West Slopes and Eastern Riverina | Wagga Wagga | 0 (VHF)[note 2]
46 (UHF)  | 30 April 1965  | Unknown  | 200 kW
600 kW  | 466 m
543 m  | 34°49′13″S 147°54′5″E﻿ / ﻿34.82028°S 147.90139°E﻿ / -34.82028; 147.90139﻿ (ABMN) | Mount Ulandra
ABMIN | Mungindi | Mungindi | 10 (VHF)
NA  | 7 January 1974  | MungindI | 0.1 kW  | 59 m  | 28°59′37″S 149°1′0″E﻿ / ﻿28.99361°S 149.01667°E﻿ / -28.99361; 149.01667﻿ (ABMIN) | Mungindi
ABQN | Central Western Slopes | Dubbo | 11 (VHF)[note 6][note 2]
12 (VHF)  | 12 September 1966  | Unknown  | 400 kW
100 kW  | 638 m
638 m  | 31°20′34″S 149°1′23″E﻿ / ﻿31.34278°S 149.02306°E﻿ / -31.34278; 149.02306﻿ (ABQN) | Mount Cenn Cruaich
ABRN | Richmond and Tweed | Lismore | 6 (VHF)[note 3]
29 (UHF)  | 20 April 1964  | Richmond and Tweed  | 200 kW
200 kW  | 621 m
645 m  | 28°32′44″S 153°17′15″E﻿ / ﻿28.54556°S 153.28750°E﻿ / -28.54556; 153.28750﻿ (ABRN) | Mount Nardi
ABSN | Bega/Cooma | Bega | 8 (VHF)[note 2]
NA  | 29 June 1966  | South East  | 200 kW  | 428 m  | 36°35′53″S 149°22′58″E﻿ / ﻿36.59806°S 149.38278°E﻿ / -36.59806; 149.38278﻿ (ABSN) | Brown Mountain
ABTN | Manning River | Taree | 6 (VHF)[note 7][note 3]
7 (VHF)  | 29 April 1966  | Taree  | 315 kW
80 kW  | 599 m
599 m  | 31°42′7″S 152°40′43″E﻿ / ﻿31.70194°S 152.67861°E﻿ / -31.70194; 152.67861﻿ (ABTN) | Middle Brother
ABUN | Upper Namoi | Tamworth | 7 (VHF)[note 3]
8 (VHF)  | 27 September 1965  | Upper Namoi  | 72 kW
22.5 kW  | 859 m
849 m  | 30°17′4″S 150°10′2″E﻿ / ﻿30.28444°S 150.16722°E﻿ / -30.28444; 150.16722﻿ (ABUN) | Mount Dowe
ABWN | Illawarra | Wollongong | 56 (UHF)[note 8][note 2]
51 (UHF)  | 28 October 1963  | Wollongong  | 960 kW
250 kW  | 618 m
618 m  | 34°37′23″S 150°41′39″E﻿ / ﻿34.62306°S 150.69417°E﻿ / -34.62306; 150.69417﻿ (ABWN) (analog)
34°37′24″S 150°41′40″E﻿ / ﻿34.62333°S 150.69444°E﻿ / -34.62333; 150.69444﻿ (ABWN) (digital)  | Knights Hill

### Notes

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1. ^ a b HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
2. ^ a b c d e f Analogue transmission ceased as of 5 June 2012 as part of the national shutdown of analogue television
3. ^ a b c d e Analogue transmission ceased as of 27 November 2012 as part of the national shutdown of analogue television.
4. ^ ABHN also broadcasts on analog UHF channel 48 with 1200 kW ERP at 441 m HAAT. ABHN was on VHF channel 5 from its 1963 sign-on until the late 1970s, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
5. ^ Analogue transmission ceased as of 15 December 2010 as part of the national shutdown of analogue television.
6. ^ ABQN was on VHF channel 5 from its 1966 sign-on until 1988, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
7. ^ ABTN was on VHF channel 1 from its 1966 sign-on until 1990.
8. ^ ABWN was on VHF channel 5A from its 1963 sign-on until 1988.

## References

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1. ^ "Inside the ABC - Issue 7 - Building on the Future". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 15 November 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
2. ^ "Communications - Television - Sydney national television station ABN2 transmitting masts at Gore Hill, Sydney New South Wales [photographic image] / photographer, John Tanner. 1 photographic negative: b&w, acetate". National Archives of Australia. 1959. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
3. ^ Kidman, Angus (25 June 2012). "Analogue TV gets an official switch-off date". Lifehacker Australia. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
4. ^ Knox, David (3 December 2013). "Sydney switches off analogue TV". TV Tonight. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
5. ^ "First NSW 7PM News broadcast from ABC Parramatta". About the ABC (Press release). 6 December 2024. Archived from the original on 9 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
6. ^ Knox, David (6 December 2024). "ABC NSW News from Parramatta this Sunday". TV Tonight. Archived from the original on 9 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.

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