Tweet The ABC’s new 24 hour news channel ABC News 24 is winning a lot of praise for bringing a 24 hour news channel to the free-to-air television platform, including from this site. The launch night went off without a hitch, but since then the channel has had its fair share of small problems behind [...]
Tweet The Chaser return to television tonight with their new political satire series Yes We Canberra!, the show will be on air for the duration of the election campaign. Today the ABC has provided a sneak peek at some of the skits we will be seeing on the first episode due to air at 9:45pm. [...]
Tweet In what The Chaser are calling the biggest gaffe made during this election campaign, disendorsed Liberal Party candidate David Barker, has exclusively revealed to The Chaser that he will run as an independent in the seat of Chifley. The gaffe is that Barker told The Chaser rather than a reputable news organisation. Mr Barker is the [...]
This hilarious clip has been added to You Tube about the frustrations currently facing Sky News over the launch of ABC News 24
Tweet Today the ABC has release its anticipated update to the ABC iPhone app that will now include access to 24 hour news channel ABC News 24. The ABC have also released a dedicated election app called Aus Votes, it also features as an access point for live streaming of ABC News 24. The app [...]
Tweet ABC TV’s catch up television service iView has taken the next step moving away from just the computer screen; from today iView can be viewed on internet-connected televisions from the Sony Bravia range. The broadening of the iView audience comes after a record month for the service, in June iView recorded 2.235 million visits, [...]
Tweet On Thursday night ABC News 24 launched as Australia’s first free-to-air 24 hour news network and it was an impressive start showing what the channel is capable of. Within the first few minutes of the channel’s launch, chief political editor Chris Uhlmann deliver explosive claims that former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd did not attend [...]
Tweet Tonight is a big night for the ABC with the launch of ABC News 24 at 7:30pm, but before the wrappings come off the new channel the ABC revealed a sneak peek at the presentation style of the channel. ABC News on ABC1 relaunched its identity to fall into line with the new channel [...]
On Sunday 25 July The Leaders Debate will air on four commercial networks and on ABC1 and ABC News 24. Below is your comprehensive guide to what each channel will be offering on the night, what channel will you be watching?
Tweet With the launch of ABC News 24 in a few hours, ABC News Breakfast has revealed that it too will be having a makeover starting from Friday morning. Additionally as reported earlier ABC News on ABC1 will also launch a new look to fall into line with the 24 hour news channel. Viewers of [...]
Tweet With the launch of ABC News 24 just hours away and the relaunch of the 7pm bulletin of ABC News on ABC1 to fall in line with the new channel, it’s time to take one final look at the now old ABC News package. Out of all the free to air networks ABC News [...]
Tweet ABC News 24 will launch on Thursday night but even before the channel has its official launch at 7:30pm, ABC1 will reveal a new look 7pm news bulletin to fall into line with ABC News 24. Immediately before the launch, news bulletins in each state will unveil new graphics, weather reports, supers and opening [...]
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Tweet The ABC has today announced the schedule for its new 24 hour news channel ABC News 24, the channel will launch this Thursday at 7:30pm. Here at THE TUBE we have put together one of our Printable TV Guide’s to mark the occasion. Below are is a list of the main programmes to be [...]
Tweet ABC News 24 is nearly here; today the ABC high definition channel (ABC HD) was moved from channel 20 to 24 and re-branded as ABC News 24 in Tasmania and the ACT. Other states will follow during the week with Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory to follow on Wednesday, then New South [...]
Tweet On Monday night the ABC started promoting the up and coming launch of its new 24 hour news channel ABC News 24. The launch of the channel has been a major talking point recently with many questioning if the national broadcaster is ready to launch. Criticism has been mounting given the technical problems plaguing [...]
Tweet Arul Baskaran has today been appointed the new Controller of ABC TV’s Multiplatform Production department. Arul has been acting in the role for the last 14 months and will officially take up his role on August 9. Prior to joining the ABC in 2004, Arul worked in New York and Europe for digital agencies [...]
Tweet Over the course of the federal election The Gruen Transfer will have a break and a series of 45 minute specials titled Gruen Nation will air in its place. Hosted by Wil Anderson, and featuring Gruen regulars Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, Gruen Nation will ‘run an ‘X-Ray over the federal election’ examining its [...]
Tweet One of the biggest nights in Australian politics has just unfolded before our very eyes and at 9am Thursday 23 June history could be made with our first female Prime Minister. Just 6 months ago Kevin Rudd seemed to be invincible with someone of the highest approval ratings for an Australian Prime Minister ever, [...]
Tweet ABC2 will screen the appearance of Hamish and Andy on The Graham Norton Show next Thursday July 1 at 9:30pm. Also appearing alongside Hamish and Andy will be Absolutely Fabulous star Joanna Lumley and from hit sitcom Frasier David Hyde Pierce. Hamish and Andy introduce the English to their sport of ghosting, a stunt [...]
Tweet Stuart Menzies who is currently the Head of ABC TV Documentaries, has today been appointed the Controller of ABC2. He will be responsible for the channel’s strategic vision, this includes making decisions for all of the channel’s commissioning of programming, and its branding. Based in Sydney, Menzies will start his role in late July [...]
Tweet We are now starting to see some movement in regards to ABC News 24 coming to air soon and while no official launch date has been announced, it is widely tipped that July 5, 2010 will be the magical date. In preparation for the channel coming to free-to-air digital TV in July, the ABC [...]
Tweet Victorian viewers will be able to see what all the fuss is all about when NRL defector Karmichael Hunt puts on his footy boots for his first game of AFL football when Coburg take on the Gold Coast in the VFL next Saturday at Craigieburn Oval. The game will screen live in Victoria on [...]
Tweet Series three of the popular ABC TV series The Librarians begins filming today in Melbourne with Robin Butler reprising her role as Head Librarian Frances O’Brien at Middleton Interactive Learning Centre, usually used as an expo building at the Melbourne Showground’s. In the third series we can expect to see Frances’ relationship with husband [...]
Tweet As was revealed here the ABC’s new 24 hour news channel will be called ABC News 24 and will launch in mid 2010. Staff at the ABC were told today that the channel will provide continuous commercial free news coverage and will draw material from the ABC’s existing news operations. Personalities to appear on [...]
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Tweet Plans for the ABC’s 24 hour news channel which is believed to be called ‘ABC News 24’ as revealed here on What’s On The Tube last week, will be announced to staff today according to the Sydney Morning Herald. A new studio is nearing completion at the ABC’s Sydney headquarters in Ultimo, the glass [...]
Tweet The ABC has today announced that one of the ratings success stories on ABC3 in locally produced series Prank Patrol will have an additional order of 39 episodes. The new deal will see Melbourne production company activeTV produce the series. Production on the new series will commence in mid 2010 which originated from Canada [...]
Tweet He may have postponed his Australian trip for later in the year, but that hasn’t stopped Barack Obama giving Kerry O’Brien an exclusive Australian interview on The 7.30 Report this week. O’Brien will present The 7.30 Report from Washington on Wednesday and Thursday nights with the Obama interview to screen on Thursday. The interview [...]
Tweet An indication that the ABC’s new 24 hour news channel is not far away from launching with the national broadcaster registering a name believed to be the title of the new channel to be called, ABC News 24. The name was registered with IP Australia the government body responsible for trade marking in Australia [...]
