ABN

ABN
Sydney, New South Wales
Channels	Analog: 2 (VHF) Digital: 12 (VHF)
Affiliations	ABC Television
Network	ABC Television
Owner	Australian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date	November 5, 1956
Call letters’ meaning	ABC New South Wales
Transmitter Power	200 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital)
Height	168 m (analog) 205 m (digital)[1]
Transmitter Coordinates	33°49′12″S 151°11′6″E / 33.82°S 151.185°E / -33.82; 151.185 (ABN)
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 November 5, 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 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.

Local programming

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 Jeremy Fernandez on weekends (the regular weekend anchor Felicity Davey is currently on maternity leave). The weeknight bulletins also incorporate NSW weather forecasts presented by Graham Creed as well as national finance and sport segements presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne & Peter Wilkins in Sydney respectively.

The weekly local current affairs program, Stateline 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.

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).

Studio Facilities

ABN-2's broadcast facilities in the Sydney suburb of Gore Hill until 2002, These studios feature a large television production studios, newsroom, and control room from ABC TV's national & local NSW news bulletins are produced. The facility is also to head office & broadcasts to other stations. when ABN-2 opened in 1956, a built studio facilities at Gore Hill, The Gore Hill complex, which was used by ABC Australia in recent years, was demolished in 2003, the first television broadcasts in February 2001, ABC relocated in Ultimo in early 2001, the final move to the television building in October 2002. All television productions such as Good News Week are resource to third party in 2008 is produced by Global Television Studios, the Sydney's community television station TVS in the digital broadcast centre facilities. also with Aurora Community Channel & National Indigenous Television was final complex in 2009.

Relay Stations

The following stations relay ABN throughout New South Wales:

Notes:

• 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
• 2. ABHN also broadcasts on analog UHF channel 48 with 1200 kW ERP at 441 m HAAT. ABHN was on VHF channel 5 from its 1963 sign-on until the late 1970s, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
• 3. ABQN was on VHF channel 5 from its 1966 sign-on until 1988, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
• 4. ABTN was on VHF channel 1 from its 1966 sign-on until 1990.
• 5. ABWN was on VHF channel 5A from its 1963 sign-on until 1988.

References

Television in Australia portal