Category: ABC HD

ABC HD to become a 24 hour news channel

ABC HD to become a 24 hour news channel

Today some exciting news from our national broadcaster, the ABC has announced it will launch a 24 hour news channel on ABC HD. It was always known this would happen and it puts to rest the speculation over how the ABC would fit the channel on its digital spectrum.
The channel will commence with no additional [...]

ANZAC Day 2009 coverage...

ANZAC Day 2009 coverage…

April 25 is one of the most significant days in Australian and New Zealand history and our television networks brought this national day of significance right into our living rooms. This year there was not as much coverage compared to last year which received blanket coverage through the respective morning shows.
The ABC was the place [...]

Freeview Officially Launches, Get Ready For The Mass Confusion...

Freeview Officially Launches, Get Ready For The Mass Confusion…

Tonight titled as a new era in Australian Television the new marketing tool for the free to air broadcasters ‘Freeview’ was launched with blanket advertising on all of the analogue channels at the exact same time 6:29pm. The one minute ad makes the point of pointing out that from 2009 there will be 15 free [...]

Australian FreeView Launches Tonight...

Australian FreeView Launches Tonight…

Tonight will be the launch of a new organisation or marketing concept called FreeView which has been put in place to facilitate the transition from Analogue Television to Digital Television. Revealed on media discussion forum Media Spy last week, tonight all five networks will start an advertising blitz in what is called a ‘roadblock’ showing [...]

Beijing 2008: Paralympics Coverage – Day 1...

Beijing 2008: Paralympics Coverage – Day 1…

Day one of the Paralympic coverage started on Sunday with coverage hosted by Steve Robilliard on ABC2 with simulating on ABC HD. The main events in the day one coverage consisted of Swimming, Track Cycling and Wheelchair Basketball, with the ABC providing the most extensive coverage of Paralympics anywhere in the world and the most [...]

Beijing 2008: Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony...

Beijing 2008: Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony…

Still on a high after hosting the very successful Olympic Games the eyes of the world turned back onto Beijing to witness the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Paralympic Games from Beijing’s National Stadium. This time round viewers can have the pleasure of not being interrupted by commercial breaks with the telecast coming live from [...]