ABV (TV station)

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ABV

Melbourne, Victoria
Channels	Digital: 12 (VHF)
Affiliations	ABC Television
Network	ABC Television
Owner	Australian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date	19 November 1956
Call letters' meaning	ABC Victoria
Transmitter power	200 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital)
Height	507 m (analog) 534 m (digital)[1]
Website	www.abc.net.au/tv

ABV is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Melbourne, Victoria. The station began broadcasting on 19 November 1956 and is transmitted throughout the state via a network of relay transmitters and also ABV is the second television station in Victoria with HSV-7 which opened at the same month of 1956 as the first TV station in Victoria. The studios are located in Southbank and Elsternwick, and transmitter at Mount Dandenong.

Contents 1 Programming 1.1 Local programming 1.2 Networked programming from ABV2 1.3 History 2 Relay Stations 3 External links 4 See also 5 References

Programming

Local programming

ABV follows a schedule nearly identical to that of other statewide ABC Television stations, allowing for time differences and some local programming - including news, current affairs, sport and state election coverage.

Ian Henderson presents ABC News Victoria on weeknights, with Paul Higgins (weather) and Alan Kohler (national finance, presented from Melbourne). Tamara Oudyn presents weekend bulletins. The main fill-in presenters are Susie Reins, Guy Stayner, Frances Bell and Beverley O'Connor. ABC News Breakfast's Vanessa O'Hanlon is the main fill in weather presenter.

The weekly local current affairs program, 7.30 Victoria is broadcast each Friday night at 7:30pm and presented by Josie Taylor.

ABV also carries live coverage of Victorian Football League matches on Saturday afternoons during the season and the finals of the TAC Cup.

• Former sports presenter Angela Pippos resigned in October 2007 after being demoted as weeknight sports presenter to weekend presenter in 2004 to make way for Peter Wilkins. It was documented in the press that Pippos had some run-ins with senior management over this issue and the timing of her departure, which came after she was approached by Victorian premier John Brumby to run as a candidate in the Williamstown by-election, caused by the resignation of former premier Steve Bracks. Pippos was suspended for one week while she made her decision not to stand, but resigned just weeks later. She now presents the breakfast program on Sport Radio 927.

• In 2008, an unusual event occurred when ABC News Victoria won one week in the 2008 television ratings season, and also drew in another week with Seven News Melbourne.

Networked programming from ABV2

News/Current Affairs ABC News Victoria 7.30 Victoria ABC News Breakfast Australia Network News (via Australia Network) Newsline with Jim Middleton (via Australia Network) Insiders Inside Business Offsiders News on 3 (via ABC3) Drama Sleuth 101 East of Everything Bed of Roses The Slap (TV series) The Librarians

Entertainment Prank Patrol (via ABC3) Studio 3 (via ABC3) Spicks and Specks Gardening Australia Rush TV (via ABC3) Beached Az Rage The Marngrook Footy Show Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight VFL

History

Past programming produced at ABV-2 included Corinne Kirby's Let's Make a Date, the popular children's fantasy Adventure Island, the multi-award winning miniseries Power Without Glory, entertainment show The Big Gig and the iconic youth music program Countdown.

ABV Channel 2 moves to new studios at Ripponlea in 1958, ABC’s existing Melbourne television studios in Gordon Street, Elsternwick and set to expand its premises in inner-city Melbourne with construction of a new television studio.

Relay Stations

The following stations relay ABV throughout Victoria:

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
ABAV	Upper Murray	Albury/Wodonga	1 (VHF)7 9A (VHF)	December 15, 1964	Albury	160 kW 60 kW	496 m 525 m		Mount Baranduda
ABEV	Bendigo	Bendigo	1 (VHF)7 48 (UHF)	April 29, 1963	BEndigo	130 kW 1250 kW	512 m 517 m		Mount Alexander
ABGV	Goulburn Valley	Shepparton	40 (UHF)2 7 37 (UHF)	November 28, 1963	Goulburn Valley	1200 kW 300 kW	372 m 378 m		Mount Major
ABLV	Latrobe Valley	Traralgon	40 (UHF)3 7 42 (UHF)	September 30, 1963	Latrobe Valley	1600 kW 400 kW	520 m 520 m		Mount Tassie
ABMV	Mildura and Sunraysia	Mildura	6 (VHF)4 6 11 (VHF)	November 22, 1965	Mildura	200 kW 50 kW	152 m 152 m		Yatpool
ABRV	Ballarat	Ballarat	42 (UHF)5 7 41 (UHF)	May 20, 1963	BallaRat	2000 kW 500 kW	710 m 713 m		Lookout Hill
ABSV	Murray Valley	Swan Hill	2 (VHF)7 58 (UHF)	July 30, 1965	Swan Hill	200 kW 375 kW	144 m 201 m		Goschen
ABWV	Western Victoria	Hamilton	5A (VHF)7 6 (VHF)	July 1981	Western Victoria	130 kW 32 kW	356 m 365 m		Mount Dundas

Notes:

• 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
• 2. ABGV was on VHF channel 3 from its 1963 sign-on until 1991, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
• 3. ABLV was on VHF channel 4 from its 1963 sign-on until 1991, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
• 4. ABMV was on VHF channel 4 from its 1965 sign-on until sometime in the 1990s, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
• 5. ABRV was on VHF channel 3 from its 1963 sign-on until sometime around 1991, moving to VHF channel 11 in order to accommodate FM radio. It moved to its current channel in 2000 in order to accommodate digital television in Melbourne.
• 6. ABMV was on VHF channel 6 until the 30 June 2010 due to the Analogue switchoff in the Mildura/Sunraysia region
• 7. Analogue transmissions ceased as of 5 May, 2011 as part of the conversion to digital television.

External links

• ABV-2 historical info
• Corrine Kerby & Oscar Whitbread behind the scenes. State Library of Victoria (SLV).
• Clive Winmill Compere of ABV-2's Children's Hour picture at SLV.

See also

• Television broadcasting in Australia

References

ABC Television Television Channels ABC1 · ABC2 · ABC3 · ABC4 Kids · ABC News 24 Stations Australian Capital Territory · Northern Territory · New South Wales · Queensland · South Australia · Tasmania · Victoria · Western Australia Defunct Channels ABC Kids Channel · Fly TV  · ABC HD Other Australia Network · ABC iview Other Programming ABC News · ABC Sport · ABC Guide · ABC Kids See also Australian Broadcasting Corporation · History of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation · Programs

Television in Victoria Melbourne ABV (ABC) · HSV (Seven) · GTV (Nine) · ATV (Ten) · SBS · MGV (C31) Regional Victoria ABV (ABC) · AMV (Prime7) · VTV (WIN) · GLV/BCV (SC Ten) · SBS Mildura and Sunraysia ABMV (ABC) · PTV (Prime7) · STV (WIN) · MDV (Ten) · SBS Remote areas ABV (ABC) · QQQ (SC TV) · IMP (Imparja) · CDT (Ten) · SBS