ABC (formerly referred to as The ABC National Television Service or ABC-TV from 1956 until 2008, and as ABC1 from 2008 until 2014) is a national public tv network in Australia. Launched on 5 November 1956 it's far the obligation of the ABC's television division, and is available nationally.
Origins
The history of ABC-TV may be traced back to 1953, while the federal Television Act changed into exceeded, presenting the preliminary regulatory framework for both ABC Television and ABC Commercial tv networks under the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Over the next 3 years, making plans for the advent of a national tv carrier became put in location – land for studios and transmitters in Sydney and Melbourne turned into acquired, and remote places tutors had been delivered to Australia to help with training.
Commercial station TCN-9 Sydney turned into the primary to broadcast in Australia, soon followed through the ABC's very own ABN-2 Sydney and later ABV-2 in Melbourne. Six stations, three in Melbourne and three in Sydney, had been in operation in time to cover the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The channel's first tv broadcast turned into inaugurated by top minister Robert Menzies on five November on the Gore Hill studios in Sydney, observed two weeks later by using transmission in Melbourne.
Although radio programmes will be broadcast nationally by means of landline, tv relay facilities have been now not installed region till the early Nineteen Sixties. This intended that information bulletins needed to be despatched to every capital town by means of teleprinter, to be organized and presented one by one in each town, with filmed materials copied manually and despatched to each kingdom.
A purpose-constructed tv studio opened in Sydney on 29 January 1958—replacing transient sound studios used in view that ABC-TV's inception. In the equal year, technical system changed into additionally moved to everlasting locations, at the same time as fundamental transmitters have been added to Melbourne and Sydney in 1957 and 1958 respectively.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) series which debuted in 1956 covered TV Channell and Picture Page. Other Nineteen Fifties-era Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) series covered variety indicates like Look Who's Dropped In and Café Continental, discussion collection like Any Questions, and kid's series Children's TV Club. Starting in 1957 the 2 ABC stations then in operation each produced one live drama presentation each month, which would be kinescoped for broadcast inside the different metropolis.
Sixties to the 1990s – coloration television:
Weekly cutting-edge-affairs programme Four Corners began in 1961, observed inside the same 12 months by Profiles of Power, a sequence of interviews with prominent Australians. Direct relays among Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra were additionally set up in 1961, replacing transient microwave relays as a way of simultaneously airing programmes across multiple stations. Videotape gadget, permitting the sharing of photos with an awful lot extra ease and pace, changed into hooked up in each country capital by 1962.
ABC-TV turned into one of the first tv networks in Australia to include the rock'n'roll revolution of the overdue 1950s, maximum substantially with Six O'Clock Rock, hosted by Johnny O'Keefe. During the Sixties and early Nineteen Seventies the channel endured to broadcast programmes on famous song, inclusive of the pop display Hitscene, overall performance specials by means of companies such as Tully and Max Merritt & The Meteors, as well as the mag-fashion programme GTK, which premiered in 1969 and screened for 10 minutes, four nights in keeping with week at 6:30 pm, at once previous to Bellbird and the 7:00 pm news bulletin.In 1967, the weeknightly television cutting-edge-affairs programme This Day Tonight turned into launched on ABC-TV.
Teletext offerings were brought to ABC-TV in 1983 to allow hearing impaired viewers get right of entry to to closed captions. Nationwide, successor to This Day Tonight, turned into changed in turn with the aid of a new, hour-long, country wide news programme known as The National. Having proved unsuccessful, it reverted to a country ABC News bulletin at 7:00 pm, with a nation-based edition of The 7.30 Report following afterwards. Lateline and Media Watch also released in the Eighties.

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