The launch of ABC3 on Friday night has delivered the national broadcaster some encouraging results with the channel reaching 15% of 5 to 12 year olds in metro cities since launch day. The introduction programme on ABC1 which featured Prime Minister Kevin Rudd activating the channel attracted a five city total people audience share of [...]
On December 4, 2009 Australia received its newest free to air digital television channel solely dedicated to children which will run every day from 6am to 9pm. The Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd was on hand at the ABC’s Sydney studios in Ultimo to personally activate the channel at 6pm on Friday.
Before the channel [...]
Today the ABC released the first two week’s of programming to screen on its new dedicated children’s channel ABC3 from 6pm on December 4. As noted earlier the channel will close down each night at 9pm and will then resume programming at 6am in a similar fashion to current arrangements on ABC2.
Programming for both week [...]
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 [...]
The Federal Government today has announced that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) will receive funds to create a dedicated channel for children. The ABC’s managing director Mark Scott said, “This exciting initiative will be welcomed by parents and children in homes across the nation”. He also added, “It is wonderful that in this new era [...]
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