| Sydney, New South Wales | |
|---|---|
| Channels | Analog: 2 (VHF) Digital: 12 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC Television |
| Network | ABC Television |
| Owner | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date | 5 November 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning | ABC New South Wales |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital) |
| Height | 168 m (analog) 205 m (digital)[1] |
| Website | www.abc.net.au/tv |
ABN is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Sydney, New South Wales. The station began broadcasting on 5 November 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 Australia Network at the Corporation's headquarters in Ultimo.[2] Its main transmitter, however, remains at Gore Hill.[3] The station can be received throughout the state through a number of relay transmitters, as well as satellite transmission on the Optus Aurora platform.
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ABN-2 Sydney is opened on 5 November 1956 with full time colour broadcasting introduced in March 1975.
For more than 40 years, Gore Hill was best known as the location of the ABC's Sydney television studios, which were fully opened in 1958 and which operated until 2002, when the site was closed and sold off. Latterly, the ABC moved its television operations to its broadcasting centre in Ultimo.
ABC TV Sydney shares its digital broadcast centre facilities with Sydney's community television station TVS[4]. The station has also previously carried a number of programs originally produced at other Channel 31 stations in other states (programs such as Aurora Community Channel & National Indigenous Television).
ABN's schedule is similar to the national ABC schedule, with the exception of some news, current affairs, sport and occasionally, election programming.
The nightly 7pm state news bulletin ABC News New South Wales is presented by Juanita Phillips on weeknights and Felicity Davey on weekends. The weeknight bulletins also incorporate NSW weather forecasts presented by Graham Creed as well as a national finance segment presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne.
The weekly local current affairs program, 7.30 New South Wales is broadcast each Friday night at 7:30pm and presented by Quentin Dempster. ABN also carries live coverage of Shute Shield rugby union matches every Saturday afternoon.
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| LCN | Service | SD/HD |
|---|---|---|
| 2 & 21 | ABC1 | SD |
| 22 | ABC2 | SD |
| 23 | ABC3 | SD |
| 24 | ABC News 24 | HD |
The following stations relay ABN throughout New South Wales:
| Call | Region served | City | Channels (Analog/ Digital) |
First air date | 3rd letter’s meaning |
ERP (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT (Analog/ Digital)1 |
Transmitter Coordinates | Transmitter Location |
| ABCN | Central Tablelands | Orange | 1 (VHF) 36 (UHF) |
31 March 1964 | Central Tablelands | 160 kW 570 kW |
655 m 677 m |
Mount Canobolas | |
| ABDN | Grafton/Kempsey | Coffs Harbour | 2 (VHF) 36 (UHF) |
28 June 1965 | 160 kW 250 kW |
661 m 730 m |
Mount Moombil | ||
| ABGN | Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area | Griffith | 7 (VHF) 11 (VHF) |
25 July 1966 | Griffith | 200 kW 50 kW |
416 m 412 m |
Mount Bingar | |
| ABHN | Newcastle/Hunter River | Newcastle | 5A (VHF)2 37 (UHF) |
5 June 1963 | Hunter River | 200 kW 250 kW |
405 m 440 m |
(analog) (digital) |
Mount Sugarloaf |
| ABLN | Broken Hill | Broken Hill | 2 (VHF)6 10 (VHF) |
14 December 1965 | 5 kW 4 kW |
95 m 104 m |
Rocky Hill | ||
| ABMN | South Western Slopes and Eastern Riverina | Wagga Wagga | 0 (VHF) 46 (UHF) |
30 April 1965 | 200 kW 600 kW |
466 m 543 m |
Mount Ulandra | ||
| ABMIN | Mungindi | Mungindi | 10 (VHF) NA |
1 January 1974 | MungindI | 0.1 kW | 59 m | Mungindi | |
| ABQN | Central Western Slopes | Dubbo | 11 (VHF)3 12 (VHF) |
12 September 1966 | 400 kW 100 kW |
638 m 638 m |
Mount Cenn Cruaich | ||
| ABRN | Richmond and Tweed | Lismore | 6 (VHF) 29 (UHF) |
20 April 1964 | Richmond and Tweed | 200 kW 200 kW |
621 m 645 m |
Mount Nardi | |
| ABSN | Bega/Cooma | Bega | 8 (VHF) NA |
29 June 1966 | South East | 200 kW | 428 m | Brown Mountain | |
| ABTN | Manning River | Taree | 6 (VHF)4 7 (VHF) |
29 April 1966 | Taree | 315 kW 80 kW |
599 m 599 m |
Middle Brother | |
| ABUN | Upper Namoi | Tamworth | 7 (VHF) 8 (VHF) |
27 September 1965 | Upper Namoi | 72 kW 22.5 kW |
859 m 849 m |
Mount Dowe | |
| ABWN | Illawarra | Wollongong | 56 (UHF)5 51 (UHF) |
28 October 1963 | Wollongong | 960 kW 250 kW |
618 m 618 m |
(analog) (digital) |
Knights Hill |
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