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Colour transmissions were first tested in Australia from 19 October 1974 on commercial networks. However, colour television only officially began on 1 March 1975. On this date, Channel ABN2 in Sydney, New South Wales, produced the first colour news broadcast. The newsreader was James Dibble.

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