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ABC1 is a national public
television channel in Australia. Launched on 5 November 1956 it is the responsibility of the ABC
's television division
, and is available nationally. In August 2009, ABC1 had a 19.1% audience share.
Commercial station TCN-9
Sydney was the first to broadcast in Australia, soon followed by the ABC's own ABN-2
Sydney and later ABV-2 in Melbourne. Six stations, three in Melbourne and three in Sydney, were in operation in time to cover the 1956 Summer Olympics
in Melbourne. The channel's first television broadcast was inaugurated by prime minister Robert Menzies
on 5 November at the Gore Hill
studios in Sydney, followed two weeks later by transmission in Melbourne.
Although radio programmes could be broadcast nationally by landline
, television relay facilities were not put in place until the early 1960s. This meant that news bulletins had to be sent to each capital city by teleprinter
, to be prepared and presented separately in each city, with filmed materials copied manually and sent to each state.
A purpose-built television studio opened in Sydney on 29 January 1958—replacing temporary sound studios used since ABC TV's inception. In the same year, technical equipment was also moved to permanent locations, while main transmitters were introduced to Melbourne and Sydney in 1957 and 1958 respectively.
were also established in 1961, replacing temporary microwave relays as a means of simultaneously airing programmes across multiple stations. Videotape equipment, allowing the sharing of footage with much greater ease and speed, was installed in each state capital by 1962.
ABC TV was one of the first television networks in Australia to embrace the rock'n'roll revolution of the late 1950s, most notably with Six O'Clock Rock
, hosted by Johnny O'Keefe
. During the 1960s and early 1970s the channel continued to broadcast programmes on popular music, including the pop show Hitscene, performance specials by groups such as Tully and Max Merritt & The Meteors, as well as the magazine-style programme GTK
, which premiered in 1969 and screened for 10 minutes, four nights per week at 6:30 pm, immediately prior to Bellbird
and the 7:00 pm news bulletin. In 1967, the weeknightly television current-affairs programme This Day Tonight
was launched on ABC TV.
Teletext services were introduced to ABC TV 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 programme called The National. Having proved unsuccessful, it reverted to 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.
and high definition
programming.
In 2002, to celebrate seventy years of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC TV's logo reverted to the "over and under" design seen in the previous decades, however it retained the three-dimensional metallic design. The channel's idents featured elements - fire, leaf and ice, and the slogan was updated to Everyone's ABC. The idents also featured the silver ring that morphs into the ABC logo. This however did not last, as later in 2004, the channel's idents were modified to feature everyday Australians. On 19 December 2005 the channel's idents were revamped featuring a modified ABC logo transforming to a television. These idents were also carried onto ABC2
.
At midday on 8 February 2008 ABC TV was rebranded as ABC1 with the standard-definition redirect channel moved from LCN22 to LCN21, complementing the existing ABC2 digital-only channel launched on 7 March 2005. Further cementing 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.
June 2010 saw ABC1's high definition digital transmission terminated, to be replaced with a fourth channel, ABC News 24
.
On February 6 2011, ABC1 launched its new branding via idents featuring a range of channel personalities and the new tagline - "ThinkEntertainment". A new watermark is also aired with a single “1″ above the network's famous squiggle logo.
.
division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A number of bulletins and updates are shown throughout the day, which include the flagship state-based evening bulletins of ABC News
at 7.00pm, focused on local, national and international news relevant to their entire respective state or territory. In addition, ABC News Breakfast
is broadcast each weekday morning and it is also shown on ABC News 24
, The Midday Report, a national weekday edition of ABC News, is broadcast at noon live from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's studios in Ultimo, Sydney
. News updates for ABC1 are presented nationally throughout the day, however evening updates are shown in most states by their respective presenters. '
Other flagship programmes, which include Four Corners, Australian Story
, Foreign Correspondent, Lateline
and The 7.30 Report
, are broadcast in primetime and are widely-regarded for their agenda-setting journalism. Similarly, each state-based station produces and broadcasts their respective edition of Stateline in primetime, which includes one for every state and territory
of Australia. In addition, Landline
, Insiders, Media Watch and At the Movies cover rural, political and business, and media affairs respectively.
, Netball World Championships
, W-League
, Women's National Basketball League
, AFC Women's Asian Cup as well as state football league competitions which include Australian rules football
and rugby league
. In addition to this, The ABC also holds the rights to the Paralympic Games
, Australian Rugby Championship
and the Hopman Cup
tennis tournament.
ABC Sport currently broadcasts a Grandstand Sport which included the state football league such as New South Wales Rugby Union
, Queensland Rugby League
, Victorian Football League
, Tasmanian Football League
, South Australian Football League, West Australian Football League
, and Northern Territory Football League
. in addition to Tiwi Islands Football League
and Australian Rugby Championship
.
ABC's children's programming consists of a mixture of both in-house and out-sourced children's television programmes. Due to their longevity, current long-running programmes such as Play School
, Giggle and Hoot
, Five Minutes More
and other shows are aired with iconic within Australia. in addition to older-children's programming on ABC1 & ABC3
. former children's shows includes Bananas in Pyjamas
, The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
, Mixy from The Ferals
and other pre-school shows.
Children's programming also includes educational programmes. Behind the News
is a long-running series which provides background information to current affairs. The programme has come to be incorporated into many school curricula. Schools TV is a segment between and that consists of documentaries and specials relevant to school study.
and standard definition
format.
In the early years, ABC TV had been using Lissajous curve
s with its initials, ABC TV, inside it as fillers in-between programmes.
A staff competition was conducted in 1963 to create a new logo for use on television, stationery, publications, microphone badges and ABC vehicles. Graphic designer, Bill Kennard, who had been experimenting with telerecording of the Cathode Ray Oscillograph
displays, submitted a design in 1965 which was part of the waveform
of an oscilloscope. The letters A-B-C were added to the wavelength design and it was adopted as the ABC's official logo. Bill Kennard was paid £25 for his design. This logo has been modified from two dimensions, to colour, to three dimensions, over time and it is now one of the most well-known logos in Australia.
To celebrate the introduction of colour television in 1975, the ABC logo was modified to a thickened version. The logo was also changed to an "over and under" design. To celebrate the Australian Bicentenary
, on Australia Day
in 1988, the idents were updated. The original set of idents were titled "Natural Textures of Australia", with a following called "Man Made Textures of Australia". The ABC logo featured on idents and promos was modified in 1995 to a similar design to that seen in 1963 on the first design. The logo was hand drawn by persons featured in the promos and idents.
Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...
television channel in Australia. Launched on 5 November 1956 it is the responsibility of the ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
's television division
ABC Television
ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956. As a public broadcasting broadcaster, the ABC provides four non-commercial channels within Australia, and a partially advertising-funded satellite channel overseas....
, and is available nationally. In August 2009, ABC1 had a 19.1% audience share.
Origins
The history of ABC1 can be traced back to 1953, when the federal Television Act was passed, providing the initial regulatory framework for both ABC Television and commercial television networks. Over the next three years, planning for the introduction of a national television service was put in place – land for studios and transmitters in Sydney and Melbourne was acquired, and overseas tutors were brought to Australia to assist with training.Commercial station TCN-9
TCN
TCN stands for:* Take Care Now, a private company providing out-of-hours medical cover in England* TanenbaumCHAT North Campus, a private Hebrew high school in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada* TCN-9, a Sydney television station...
Sydney was the first to broadcast in Australia, soon followed by the ABC's own ABN-2
ABN (TV station)
ABN is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Sydney, New South Wales. The station began broadcasting on November 5, 1956. 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 and...
Sydney and later ABV-2 in Melbourne. Six stations, three in Melbourne and three in Sydney, were in operation in time to cover the 1956 Summer Olympics
1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...
in Melbourne. The channel's first television broadcast was inaugurated by prime minister Robert Menzies
Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....
on 5 November at the Gore Hill
Gore Hill, New South Wales
Gore Hill is an urban locality on the North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Gore Hill is located in the western part of the suburb of St Leonards....
studios in Sydney, followed two weeks later by transmission in Melbourne.
Although radio programmes could be broadcast nationally by landline
Landline
A landline was originally an overland telegraph wire, as opposed to an undersea cable. Currently, landline refers to a telephone line which travels through a solid medium, either metal wire or optical fibre, as distinguished from a mobile cellular line, where transmission is via radio waves...
, television relay facilities were not put in place until the early 1960s. This meant that news bulletins had to be sent to each capital city by teleprinter
Teleprinter
A teleprinter is a electromechanical typewriter that can be used to communicate typed messages from point to point and point to multipoint over a variety of communication channels that range from a simple electrical connection, such as a pair of wires, to the use of radio and microwave as the...
, to be prepared and presented separately in each city, with filmed materials copied manually and sent to each state.
A purpose-built television studio opened in Sydney on 29 January 1958—replacing temporary sound studios used since ABC TV's inception. In the same year, technical equipment was also moved to permanent locations, while main transmitters were introduced to Melbourne and Sydney in 1957 and 1958 respectively.
1960s to the 1990s Colour television
Weekly current-affairs programme Four Corners began in 1961, followed in the same year by Profiles of Power, a series of interviews with prominent Australians. Direct relays between Sydney, Melbourne and CanberraCanberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
were also established in 1961, replacing temporary microwave relays as a means of simultaneously airing programmes across multiple stations. Videotape equipment, allowing the sharing of footage with much greater ease and speed, was installed in each state capital by 1962.
ABC TV was one of the first television networks in Australia to embrace the rock'n'roll revolution of the late 1950s, most notably with Six O'Clock Rock
Six O'Clock Rock
Six O'Clock Rock was an Australian Rock and Roll television show which showed on ABC Television from 28 February 1959 to 1962 and was broadcast at 6PM on Saturday evenings....
, hosted by Johnny O'Keefe
Johnny O'Keefe
John Michael O'Keefe, known as Johnny O'Keefe was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s. Some of his hits include "Wild One" , "Shout!" and "She's My Baby"...
. During the 1960s and early 1970s the channel continued to broadcast programmes on popular music, including the pop show Hitscene, performance specials by groups such as Tully and Max Merritt & The Meteors, as well as the magazine-style programme GTK
GTK (TV show)
GTK was an Australian popular music TV series produced and broadcast by ABC Television.-History:The series title was an abbreviation of the phrase "Get To Know"...
, which premiered in 1969 and screened for 10 minutes, four nights per week at 6:30 pm, immediately prior to Bellbird
Bellbird (TV series)
Bellbird was an Australian soap opera set in a small Victorian rural township. The series was produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation at its Ripponlea TV studios in Elsternwick, Melbourne, Victoria. The series was produced between 28 August 1967 and December 1977...
and the 7:00 pm news bulletin. In 1967, the weeknightly television current-affairs programme This Day Tonight
This Day Tonight
This Day Tonight was an Australian Broadcasting Corporation current affairs program of the late 1960s and early 1970s.- Overview :...
was launched on ABC TV.
Teletext services were introduced to ABC TV 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 programme called The National. Having proved unsuccessful, it reverted to a state ABC News
ABC News (Australia)
ABC News is a national news service produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - the division is responsible for all newsgathering and production of news output for ABC television, radio and online services...
bulletin at 7:00 pm, with a state-based edition of The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report is an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at , Mondays–Thursdays...
following afterwards. Lateline
Lateline
Lateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, airing weeknights at on ABC1. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister...
and Media Watch also launched in the 1980s.
2000s and beyond - Digital television
The year 2001 saw the launch of a new logo to celebrate the introduction of digital terrestrial television in Australia. The logo was modified to a three-dimensional metallic design. Coinciding with this, digital television was introduced to most of the network's coverage area on 1 January 2001 - this was soon followed by the gradual introduction of widescreenWidescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
and high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
programming.
In 2002, to celebrate seventy years of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC TV's logo reverted to the "over and under" design seen in the previous decades, however it retained the three-dimensional metallic design. The channel's idents featured elements - fire, leaf and ice, and the slogan was updated to Everyone's ABC. The idents also featured the silver ring that morphs into the ABC logo. This however did not last, as later in 2004, the channel's idents were modified to feature everyday Australians. On 19 December 2005 the channel's idents were revamped featuring a modified ABC logo transforming to a television. These idents were also carried onto ABC2
ABC2
ABC2 is a national public television channel in Australia. Launched on 7 March 2005, it is the responsibility of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television division, and is available nationally to digital television viewers in Australia...
.
At midday on 8 February 2008 ABC TV was rebranded as ABC1 with the standard-definition redirect channel moved from LCN22 to LCN21, complementing the existing ABC2 digital-only channel launched on 7 March 2005. Further cementing 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
Lissajous curve
In mathematics, a Lissajous curve , also known as Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve, is the graph of a system of parametric equationswhich describe complex harmonic motion...
brand was to disappear completely, ABC management reaffirmed that it would remain in use by the corporation.
June 2010 saw ABC1's high definition digital transmission terminated, to be replaced with a fourth channel, ABC News 24
ABC News 24
ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...
.
On February 6 2011, ABC1 launched its new branding via idents featuring a range of channel personalities and the new tagline - "ThinkEntertainment". A new watermark is also aired with a single “1″ above the network's famous squiggle logo.
Controllers
As part of a revamp of the entire ABC Television network, the ABC1 hired its very first television controller, Brendan Dahill from BBC WorldwideBBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. In the year to 31 March 2010 it made a profit of £145m on a turnover of £1.074bn. The company had made a profit of £106m...
.
- 2010-: Brendan Dahill
Programming
ABC1 is required by charter to meet certain programming obligations. Although it has a strong focus on news and current affairs, it also presents documentaries and educational programmes, children's shows, drama, light entertainment comedy and variety, and sports.News and Current Affairs
ABC News, broadcast on ABC1, is a national news service produced by the News and Current AffairsABC News and Current Affairs
ABC News and Current Affairs is the name of the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that controls content classified as news, public affairs and business and finance....
division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A number of bulletins and updates are shown throughout the day, which include the flagship state-based evening bulletins of ABC News
ABC News (Australia)
ABC News is a national news service produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - the division is responsible for all newsgathering and production of news output for ABC television, radio and online services...
at 7.00pm, focused on local, national and international news relevant to their entire respective state or territory. In addition, ABC News Breakfast
ABC News Breakfast
ABC News Breakfast is an Australian breakfast television programme which broadcasts on ABC1 & ABC News 24 from 6am - 9am on weekdays. The program airs live in all Australian timezones on the high-definition digital free-to-air channel ABC News 24...
is broadcast each weekday morning and it is also shown on ABC News 24
ABC News 24
ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...
, The Midday Report, a national weekday edition of ABC News, is broadcast at noon live from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's studios in Ultimo, Sydney
Ultimo, New South Wales
Ultimo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Ultimo is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney....
. News updates for ABC1 are presented nationally throughout the day, however evening updates are shown in most states by their respective presenters. '
Other flagship programmes, which include Four Corners, Australian Story
Australian Story
Australian Story is a national weekly documentary series, produced and broadcast on ABC Television.Since 1996 Australian Story has featured many Australians from diverse backgrounds and reputations...
, Foreign Correspondent, Lateline
Lateline
Lateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, airing weeknights at on ABC1. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister...
and The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report is an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at , Mondays–Thursdays...
, are broadcast in primetime and are widely-regarded for their agenda-setting journalism. Similarly, each state-based station produces and broadcasts their respective edition of Stateline in primetime, which includes one for every state and territory
States and territories of Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia is a union of six states and various territories. The Australian mainland is made up of five states and three territories, with the sixth state of Tasmania being made up of islands. In addition there are six island territories, known as external territories, and a...
of Australia. In addition, Landline
Landline (TV series)
Landline is an Australian national rural issues television program broadcast on ABC1. Presented by Anne Kruger, the program discusses rural issues regarding farming, mining and fisheries from around Australia...
, Insiders, Media Watch and At the Movies cover rural, political and business, and media affairs respectively.
Sport
ABC Sport currently holds the broadcast rights to a range of sports, which are broadcast on ABC1, these include the Women's Australian OpenWomen's Australian Open (golf)
The Women's Australian Open is a golf tournament played in Australia which is sanctioned by the ALPG Tour and the Ladies European Tour . In 2008, it was the second-richest women's golf tournament on the ALPG Tour, with a prize fund of A$500,000...
, Netball World Championships
Netball World Championships
The World Netball Championships is a quadrennial international netball world championship co-ordinated by the International Federation of Netball Associations , inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australian national netball team and the New...
, W-League
W-League
The USL W-League is a national women's soccer league in the United States on the 2nd level of women's soccer in the United States soccer pyramid, alongside the Women's Premier Soccer League and below Women's Professional Soccer....
, Women's National Basketball League
Women's National Basketball League
The Women's National Basketball League is the pre-eminent women's professional basketball league in Australia. It currently is composed of ten teams. The league was founded in 1981 and is the women's counterpart to the National Basketball League...
, AFC Women's Asian Cup as well as state football league competitions which include Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
and rugby league
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
. In addition to this, The ABC also holds the rights to the Paralympic Games
Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport event where athletes with a physical disability compete; this includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and Cerebral Palsy. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which are held immediately following their...
, Australian Rugby Championship
Australian Rugby Championship
The Australian Rugby Championship, often abbreviated to the ARC , was a domestic Rugby union football club competition in Australia which ran for only one season in August–October 2007...
and the Hopman Cup
Hopman Cup
The Hopman Cup is an annual international team tennis tournament held in Perth, Western Australia in early January each year, which plays mixed teams on a country by country basis...
tennis tournament.
ABC Sport currently broadcasts a Grandstand Sport which included the state football league such as New South Wales Rugby Union
New South Wales Rugby Union
The New South Wales Rugby Union is the organisation responsible for the sport of rugby union in most of the state of New South Wales, Australia...
, Queensland Rugby League
Queensland Rugby League
The Queensland Rugby Football League is the governing body for rugby league in Queensland. It is a member of the Australian Rugby League and selects the members of Queensland State of Origin teams....
, Victorian Football League
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association , taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association...
, Tasmanian Football League
Tasmanian Football League
Tasmanian State League is the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.The league has a long and convoluted history which dates back to its founding on 12 June 1879 Tasmanian State League (TSL) (formerly known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), Tasmanian...
, South Australian Football League, West Australian Football League
West Australian Football League
The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFL is the second-most popular in the state, behind the nation-wide Australian Football League...
, and Northern Territory Football League
Northern Territory Football League
The Northern Territory Football League is an 8 team Australian rules football semi-professional league operating in Darwin in the Northern Territory.The premier grade is the largest Australian rules football league in the Northern Territory...
. in addition to Tiwi Islands Football League
Tiwi Islands Football League
The Tiwi Islands Football League is an Australian rules football competition in the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia.Australian Rules football is the most popular sport on the Tiwi Islands....
and Australian Rugby Championship
Australian Rugby Championship
The Australian Rugby Championship, often abbreviated to the ARC , was a domestic Rugby union football club competition in Australia which ran for only one season in August–October 2007...
.
Children
Children's programming is broadcast in one block, afternoons from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Two distinct age groups are targeted, preschoolers and non-preschoolers.ABC's children's programming consists of a mixture of both in-house and out-sourced children's television programmes. Due to their longevity, current long-running programmes such as Play School
Play School (Australian TV series)
Play School is an Australian educational television show for children produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It is the longest-running children's show in Australia, and the second longest running childrens show in the world. An estimated 80% of pre-school children under six watch the...
, Giggle and Hoot
Giggle and Hoot (TV Show)
Giggle And Hoot is a 2010 TV Wrapper program for the Australian children's channels ABC1 and ABC2. The show is hosted by Jimmy Giggle , and co-hosted by Hoot, a puppet owl...
, Five Minutes More
Five Minutes More (TV series)
Five Minutes More is a children's television series co-produced between Australia and the United Kingdom. It was produced by Snow River Media and Buster Dandy Productions, and developed by The Jim Henson Company...
and other shows are aired with iconic within Australia. in addition to older-children's programming on ABC1 & ABC3
ABC3
-Future shows:Programming confirmed for future broadcast will include:* After School Care * Bindi's Boot Camp * Bushwacked! * Dance Academy * Dancing Down Under...
. former children's shows includes Bananas in Pyjamas
Bananas in Pyjamas
Bananas in Pyjamas is an Australian children's television show that premiered in July 1992 on ABC Television. It has since become syndicated in many different countries, and dubbed into other languages. In the United States, the "Pyjamas" in the title was modified to reflect the American spelling...
, The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
The Adventures Of Bottle Top Bill And His Best Friend Corky is an Australian children's animated television program that was first screened on ABC2 in 2006. The animation is a mixture of CGI, 2D and stop motion.-Series Synopsis:...
, Mixy from The Ferals
The Ferals
The Ferals is an Australian children's comedy television series created by Wendy Gray and Claire Henderson and produced by the ABC. It ran from 1994 to 1995, and it featured a mixture of people and animal puppets known as the "Ferals." It was lauded for its irreverent humour and distinctive...
and other pre-school shows.
Children's programming also includes educational programmes. Behind the News
Behind the News
Behind the News is a long-running news-program broadcast on Australia's ABC1 made in Adelaide and aimed at school-aged children...
is a long-running series which provides background information to current affairs. The programme has come to be incorporated into many school curricula. Schools TV is a segment between and that consists of documentaries and specials relevant to school study.
Availability
ABC1 varies depending on state and territory in terms of what 7:00 pm news bulletin, edition of Stateline, and in some stations promotions, are shown. National programming is often interrupted in order 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. ABC1 is broadcast nationally via ABC Television transmitters, in an analogueAnalog television
Analog television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal...
and standard definition
Standard-definition television
Sorete-definition television is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either enhanced-definition television or high-definition television . The term is usually used in reference to digital television, in particular when broadcasting at the same resolution as...
format.
Logo History
Lissajous curve
In mathematics, a Lissajous curve , also known as Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve, is the graph of a system of parametric equationswhich describe complex harmonic motion...
s with its initials, ABC TV, inside it as fillers in-between programmes.
A staff competition was conducted in 1963 to create a new logo for use on television, stationery, publications, microphone badges and ABC vehicles. Graphic designer, Bill Kennard, who had been experimenting with telerecording of the Cathode Ray Oscillograph
Oscilloscope
An oscilloscope is a type of electronic test instrument that allows observation of constantly varying signal voltages, usually as a two-dimensional graph of one or more electrical potential differences using the vertical or 'Y' axis, plotted as a function of time,...
displays, submitted a design in 1965 which was part of the waveform
Lissajous curve
In mathematics, a Lissajous curve , also known as Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve, is the graph of a system of parametric equationswhich describe complex harmonic motion...
of an oscilloscope. The letters A-B-C were added to the wavelength design and it was adopted as the ABC's official logo. Bill Kennard was paid £25 for his design. This logo has been modified from two dimensions, to colour, to three dimensions, over time and it is now one of the most well-known logos in Australia.
To celebrate the introduction of colour television in 1975, the ABC logo was modified to a thickened version. The logo was also changed to an "over and under" design. To celebrate the Australian Bicentenary
Australian Bicentenary
The bicentenary of Australia was celebrated in 1970 on the 200th anniversary of Captain James Cook landing and claiming the land, and again in 1988 to celebrate 200 years of permanent European settlement.-1970:...
, on Australia Day
Australia Day
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia...
in 1988, the idents were updated. The original set of idents were titled "Natural Textures of Australia", with a following called "Man Made Textures of Australia". The ABC logo featured on idents and promos was modified in 1995 to a similar design to that seen in 1963 on the first design. The logo was hand drawn by persons featured in the promos and idents.
- To celebrate the introduction of digital terrestrial television in Australia in 2001, ABC TV's logo was again modified, but this time to a 3D silver design. The logo was also radically modified to lose the "over and under" design.
- In 2002, to celebrate seventy years of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC TV's logo changed back to the "over and under" design, however it still kept the 3D silver design. The channel's idents featured elements - fire, leaf and ice, the silver ring that morphs into the ABC logo, and the slogan "Everyone's ABC". These idents were also carried to ABC Asia PacificAustralia NetworkAustralia Network, originally Australia Television International and later ABC Asia Pacific, is a free-to-air international satellite television service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 2006. The television and online service broadcasts 24 hours a day on 7 days a week, to...
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- Later in 2004, the channel's idents were modified to feature everyday Australians. On some promos during this era, the ring animation from 2002 was kept.
- On 19 December 2005 the channel's idents were revamped featuring a slightly modified ABC logo transforming into a television. The idents were also carried on ABC2 for the "ABC New & Digital Media" promo.
- On 8 February 2008 the channel was renamed as ABC1 with its logo updated concurrently with ABC2 although it uses a blue version. In addition to this, the slogan There's more to Television was rebadged to It begins with 1. After concerns in some sections of the media that the 43-year-old Lissajous curveLissajous curveIn mathematics, a Lissajous curve , also known as Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve, is the graph of a system of parametric equationswhich describe complex harmonic motion...
logo was to disappear completely, ABC management reaffirmed that it would remain in use by the corporation. Aside this, the idents were revamped to feature a version of that of 2004, but with animations. - In 2007, the ABC Television Coporation announced that the squiggle logo will not be removed but kept it a secret until in 8 February 2008 when the ABC1 logo was branded with the ABC2 logo.
- On 6 February 2011, the channel was rebranded with new idents and a new on-air logo, with a new slogan "ThinkEntertainment".
Identity History
- 1956: Different Lissajous curves on an oval base wave with the initials ABC TV inside. We zoom out to see it is on a television.
- 1970: Australian Broadcasting Commission, National Television Service.
- 1971: This is National Television ABC. (based on "A Shade of Brass")
- 1972: This is ABC Television, The Good Looking Australian. (based on "A Shade of Brass")
- 1972-1973: Around Australia, You’re in Tune with the National Network - ABC Television.
- 1974: This is ABC National Television.
- Christmas 1974: Wishing You a Merry Christmas From ABC National Television.
- 1975 (Jan-Feb): Come on Home to ABC.
- 1975: Come to Colour on ABC National Television.
- 1977: You're at Home with ABC.
- 1978–80: ABC TV.
- 1980–88: The ABC logo is a white ribbon on a blue background, we zoom in on it and when we zoom out, there is a Western plain and the then ABC logo. ABC TV fades above it.
- Summer 1980/81: Summer '80.
- 1981: A blue ribbon goes down, then an orange outlined ABC logo zooms forward and has "ABC TV" above it.
- Summer 1981/82: ABC Summer.
- 1982–83: ABC - Your National Network.
- 1985–90: Red squares are made on the ground, we zoom through them to a yellow sun with an ABC logo which turns away. This identity was re-made for the ABC By Satellite programme.
- 1990–95: Natural Textures of Australia.
- 1992: 8 Cents a Day.
- 1990–95: Man-Made Textures.
- 1995: A bunch of words flicker on the screen, eventually stopping on a word, some footage is then shown, then the ABC logo flips up at the end, with different music for each ident.
- 1996-31 December 2000: A different person hand-draws the ABC logo. From 1998 onwards, the logo stays to the end of the ident with the letters abc appearing next to it. In 1996/1997, the logo fades away before the end, and the words it's your abc appear, with information about who was in the ident/where it was filmed.
- 1 January 2001–2002: A giant silver ring morphs into the ABC logo with the slogan The National Broadcaster at the bottom. This is the first identification to use the silver logo.
- 2002–2004: A silver ring morphs into the 2002 logo. The idents feature the elements fire, leaf, and ice. The "Everyone's ABC" slogan was used in mid-2003.
- 2004–2005: An everyday situaton is seen with the slogan Everyone's ABC.
- 2005–2008: The ABC logo transforms into a television with a different picture in it for each identity. The slogan There's More to Television or a variation of it is seen.
- 2008–2011: A single person is seen along with animations and the slogan It Begins with 1, which means that things begin with one person.
- Summer 2010/2011: Colour Your Summer with ABC. (based on "Colour My World" by Petula Clarke)
- 2011–: ThinkEntertainment.