Services Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1 services

1.1 radio
1.2 television
1.3 studios
1.4 online
1.5 international
1.6 commercial
1.7 orchestras

services
radio

abc brisbane headquarters in south bank

the abc operates 54 local radio stations, in addition 4 national networks , international service radio australia. in addition, dig radio launched on digital platforms in 2002, offering 3 separate stations.

abc local radio corporation s flagship radio station in each broadcast area. there 54 individual stations, each similar format consisting of locally presented light entertainment, news, talk back, music, sport , interviews, in addition national programming such am, pm, world today, sporting events , nightlife.

abc grandstand live radio sports focused commentary , talk-back program runs on australian broadcasting corporation local radio network across australia , on 1 digital-only station. program runs on saturdays , sundays, typically noon or hour before, until 6 pm.

double j aimed @ over-30s alternative music listeners. owned , operated australian broadcasting corporation.

abc jazz launched digital station designed broadcast variety of different jazz styles including bebop, acid jazz, cool jazz , contemporary styles of jazz.

triple j unearthed artists upload music , play , judge on channel.

abc special events national digital radio channel brings coverage of events , ideas matter.

abc radio australia international radio station.

abc country features country style music.

abc radio national broadcasts more 60 special interest programmes per week covering range of topics including music, comedy, book readings, radio dramas, poetry, science, health, arts, religion, social history , current affairs.

abc newsradio rolling news service, known parliamentary , news network. service established broadcast federal parliamentary sittings, relieve local abc radio network intermittent task, , provide news service @ other times. network broadcasts news on 24/7 format updates on quarter-hour. of news content produced abc itself, many programmes relayed bbc world service, npr, deutsche welle, radio netherlands , cnn radio.

abc classic fm abc s first fm radio service. known abc fm , , short time abc fine music . format borrowed heavily community stations founded fine music network, bbc radio 3.

triple j national youth radio network, , broadcasts contemporary alternative , independent music; targeted @ people aged 18–35. while network plays music around world, has strong focus on local artists. triple j formerly known double jay when launched in sydney on 19 january 1975.

abc radio broadcasts regular news bulletins across of radio stations. many of these bulletins heralded majestic fanfare , written british composer charles williams in 1935.

television

the abc operates 6 national television channels.

abc tv channel consists of programs of:

art , culture: stories want tell in person, a-z of contemporary art,
current affairs: 7.30, abc news, australian story, roads, 4 corners, insiders, landline, lateline, media watch, q&a, drum.
comedy: birds of feather, growing gracefully, s date, luke warm sex, shaun micallef s mad hell, utopia
documentaries , factual: antiques roadshow, ask doctor, roads, brian cox: life of universe, catalyst, city in sky, compass, david attenborough s natural history museum alive, dream build, enigma man: stone age mystery, grand designs, grand designs new zealand, checkout, q&a, joanna lumley s india, mary berry s absolute favourites, media watch.
drama: agatha raisin, cleverman, death in paradise, doc martin, father brown, happy valley, humans, line of duty, midsomer murders, prime suspect 1973, pulse
entertainment: adam hills: last leg, eggheads, gardening australia, grand designs, growing grafefully, hard quiz, pointless, qi, antiques roadshow, short cuts glory, checkout, house, can t ask that
indigenous: cleverman
environment: wild life @ zoo, landline, gardening australia
news: 7.30, abc news, australian story, roads, 4 corners, insiders, landline, lateline, media watch, q&a, drum, q&a, offsiders
sport: golf: pga tour highlights, offsiders
special events
science: ask doctor, becoming superhuman, brian cox: life of universe, catalyst, gardening australia, humans, stargazing live, todd sampson s life on line

abc hd has same programs abc in high definition.

abc2 has comedy, drama, documentaries , repeats abc.

abc me tv channel, focus primary school children, 6–15 years old. broadcasts range of genres, including comedy, drama, music, animation, extreme sports, wildlife , news-based programmes.

abc kids tv channel children under 6, educational programs.

abc news 24-hour news channel news related programs, such news breakfast, weekend breakfast, abc news mornings, abc news @ noon, abc news afternoons, abc news — edition, 7.30, lateline, insiders, 4 corners, behind news, q&a, catalyst, landline, offsiders, 1 plus one, business, drum, quarters, world, state state, capital hill

studios

the abc operates abc studios. abc, corporation s original television service, receives bulk of funding television , shows first-run news, , abc kids.

online

an experimental multimedia unit established in 1995, charged developing policy abc s work in web publishing. unit continued until 2000, when new media division formed, bringing abc s online output division similar television or radio. division had on million pages of material published late 2003.

in 2001 new media division became new media , digital services, reflecting broader remit develop content digital platforms such digital television. in addition abc online, division had responsibility on abc s 2 digital television services, fly tv , abc kids channel, until closure in 2003. in march 2005 division oversaw launch of abc2, free-to-air digital television channel, in effect replacement abc kids , fly.

in conjunction abc s radio division, new media , digital services implemented abc s first podcasts in december 2004. mid-2006 abc had become international leader in podcasting on fifty podcast programmes delivering hundreds of thousands of downloads per week, including trial video podcasts of chaser s war on , jtv.

in february 2007, new media & digital services division dissolved , divided amongst other areas of abc. replaced new innovation division, manage abc online , investigate new technologies abc. in 2015 innovation division replaced digital network division.

international

australia network, formerly abc asia pacific, international satellite television service operated australian broadcasting corporation, funded advertising , grants department of foreign affairs , trade. aimed @ asia-pacific region, service broadcasts mixture of english language programming, including general entertainment, sport, , current affairs.

abc radio australia international shortwave, satellite , internet radio service transmissions aimed @ east asia , pacific islands, although signals audible in many other parts of world. features programmes in various languages spoken in these regions, including mandarin, indonesian, vietnamese, khmer , tok pisin.

radio australia bulletins carried on wrn broadcast, available via satellite in europe , north america.

commercial

abc commercial division of abc responsible pursuing new sources of revenue corporation. composed of abc retail, abc consumer publishing , content sales, abc resource hire. abc retail outlets established in 1974. profits sale of consumer product , production services return corporation reinvest in programme-making.

orchestras

up until installation of disc recording equipment in 1935, content broadcast on abc produced live, including music. purpose, abc established broadcasting orchestras in each state, , in centres employed choruses , dance bands. became known abc concert music division, controlled federal director of music – first of whom w. g. james.

there 6 state symphony orchestras:

adelaide symphony orchestra
melbourne symphony orchestra
queensland symphony orchestra
sydney symphony orchestra
tasmanian symphony orchestra
west australian symphony orchestra

the orchestras corporatised in 1990s, , divested independent companies on 1 january 2007.