Today the ABC have announced that satire comedy Review with Myles Barlow will return for a second series on ABC2 in 2010, two years after the first series went to air. The six part series will go into production soon where Barlow rates outrageous things from religion, breast implants and divorce, and then he will [...]
Under the title of ABC For Kids On 2, ABC2 will extend its existing programming for children beginning at 9am weekdays till 6pm. This commitment to pre-schoolers will continue on the weekends with additional programming from 6am to 6pm on both Saturday and Sunday.
It’s been three years in the making and needed support from both the Federal and State governments, but come 6pm Friday December 4 Australia will have a new digital television station made exclusively for children. On Thursday night the ABC launched its newest channel ABC3 with the event hosted by Kim Dalton, head of ABC [...]
Perth is the most isolated city in the world “the suburban hell of Australian cities” and had a reputation as a city where not much creativity or originality would occur with its middle-class colonialism population. But rockumentary Something in the Water sets to prove that over the last decade Perth has undergone a significant cultural [...]
Tonight ABC1 hosted the world premier of the next adventure of those two famous characters made out of clay Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death.
This time the duo have started their own bakery business titled ‘Top Bun’ with the episode opening up with Gromit reading the newspaper reporting on the serial [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This morning the ABC launched its answer to Sunrise and Today with the start of ABC News Breakfast on the digital only channel ABC2. Hosted by Virginia Troli and Barrie Cassidy host the three hour long programme, they are also joined in studio by Paul Kennedy with sport and Vanessa O’Hanlon presenting the national weather.
Unlike [...]
A new show has started on ABC2 titled Review with Myles Barlow in the spirit and structure simular to At The Movies, however instead of movies being reviewed it is basically everything that can be reviewed leaving no stone unturned.
The first review was for ‘stealing’ where Myles investigates what it is that drives people to [...]
Coming to ABC2 from November 3 will be a new programme staring screening each weekday from 6am and finishing up at 10am to compete with the commercial network’s breakfast programmes Today and Sunrise titled Breakfast.
The focus of the programme will cover mostly harder issues in national news, debates, finance, sport and weather utilising the ABC’s [...]
Tonight was the start of a brand new show on ABC2 called The Hack Half Hour, which may sound familiar to those of you who are regular listeners of radio station Triple J. The Hack Half Hour is a very successful youth orientated current affairs show which airs on Triple J every weeknight at 5:30pm, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last night on ABC2 a live performance of the hit musical Keating went to air portraying the life of former Prime Minister Paul Keating and featuring some other well known politicians. The broadcast was hosted by Emma Ayres and from Chaser fame Chris Taylor where they conducted interviews with the cast and crew.
Also on hand [...]
A new show has started to air on digital only channel ABC2 called The Graham Norton Show, it began last week and is a great night’s 30 minutes of entertainment. The show is a comedy chat show from BBC2 in the United Kingdom hosted by Irish comedian Graham Norton (obviously).
The structure of the show works [...]
ABC Media Release: ABC TV To Broadcast Over 15 Hours Of The Landmark Vision 2020 Summit?.
ABC TV will ensure that every Australian has the opportunity to be involved in the Prime Minister’s Vision 2020 Summit next weekend.
ABC1 will cover live (EST) both the opening and closing sessions of the summit, being held at Parliament House, [...]
As revealed earlier today ABC TV re-launched its on air look and changed its name to ABC1 to fall into line with its other digital channel ABC2. As promised, here is a post dedicated to the ABC2 on air look which takes on the same feel as the main ABC1 channel but distinguishes itself by [...]
Today was the start of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s new look for its television stations ABC TV and ABC2. As it was leaked last week we already had a glimpse of the new look re-branding of ABC TV to ABC1 making the channel in line with ABC2 and for a future ABC3 children’s channel.
The re-launch [...]
Despite reports in today’s The Australian newspaper, the ABC’s new ABC1 logo will not be fully replacing the famous ‘worm’ which has become a national identity for much of the 52 year history of ABC television.
As reported earlier, the ABC is re-branding its main channel so that it comes in line with ABC2 and [...]
Could this be the new image of our national broadcaster? Once again thank’s to The ABC Blog an unofficial blog about all things ABC, this is what the blog is claiming the new logo will look like come time for the February 8th re-launch of the network.
The blog has also revealed that the digital channel [...]
The Australian Broadcasting Corporations main television channel ABC is set for a name change after 52 years. In recognition of the broadcsters other channel ABC2 and soon to be added ABC3, ABC will now be referred to as ABC1. This follows the same style as the BBC in the United Kingdom where the national broadcaster [...]
