Topic: ABC (Broadcaster)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is Australia’s national public broadcaster. It broadcasts numerous radio stations, both on a local and national level, and provides four television channels – ABC1 and the digital-only channels ABC2, ABC3 and ABC News 24. It also runs Radio Australia and Australia Network overseas.
The ABC will be trialling audio description on television content broadcast on ABC1, improving access to those who are visually impaired. The trail will commence in the middle of 2012 for 13 weeks with 14 hours of drama, documentary and other content that will feature audio description.
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Archived programming from public broadcaster ABC will soon appear on Yahoo!7′s PLUS7 catch-up TV service after its commercial arm, ABC Commercial, has announced that it has signed a deal with the website.
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Fairfax Media, the owner of The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times and WA Today, has decided to launch an IPTV service of their own to rival ABC iView, 7PLUS, NineMSN Fixplay, TEN and SBS.
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Today 7PLUS, the TV catch-up service from Yahoo7, has been launched for the PlayStation 3. Users can now access the PS3 optimised website straight from the PlayStation 3′s Xross Media Bar. This is the second catch-up service, and first for the commercial stations, to be launched for the PlayStation 3, ABC’s iView being the first.
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For those of you abroad wishing to keep up with live coverage, you now can watch ABC24 online anywhere in the world. Visit http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/ . But don’t forget to checkout the TG Live Coverage.
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ABC News 24 has officially launched on the Freeview platform today, with the first program broadcasting at 7:30PM. The program was simulcast on ABC1, replacing the 7:30 Report.
The new channel, which replaces ABC HD, is the first free-to-air 24 hour news channel. However, because of government regulations, the channel will be broadcasting in HD in order to meet with HD quota requirements. This, however, will be reviewed once the digital switchover finishes in 2013.
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Looks like those problems seems to be fixed as the ABC has now announced a launch date for its new 24-hour news channel dubbed ABC News 24.
It will launch on digital boxes on July 22 on 7:30pm, with a simulcast on ABC1 – taking over from The 7:30 Report.
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The ABC has announced that it will be providing subtitles to all of its primetime programs on ABC1 and ABC2 from tomorrow, assisting those who need a text-based version of the audio. The new service will combine pre-crafted captioning (those already embedded in the file) and live captioning, and users will be able to select if they want this feature or not by pressing the CC button.
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Regional media players have expressed their concerns over the federal government decision to fund the ABC to allow them to build more than 50 region-specific websites linked to its radio offerings, saying that it could potentially damage their business.
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It’s been so long since our look at watching full episodes on the internet, and times have changed. New services have appeared, and the popular Daily Show removed access to Australian users. Have no fear, we have another guide to have a look at where you can watch them.
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Digital Television is set to dominate our televisions when 2013 finally comes, when the Government will finally switch off the last analogue television signal in the metropolitan cities – but after the switchover, what will happen next?
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BUDGET 2009 : The digital switchover in Australia has been given a boost by the budget, with the Government announcing that it will provide $183.7 million of taxpayers dollars over three years to help the switchover from analogue to digital television in regional areas.
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The ABC has now a “3D documentary” on the first day of Gallipoli, where the ANZAC troops landed on what is now called Anzac Cove in Turkey. The site, using the latest version of Flash, Flash 10 – which allows the support of 3D images, along with Google Earth and other historical data, the ABC has brought to life one of the most memorable aspects of Australia’s wartime history.
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The Australian Classification Board’s website, classification.gov.au, has been cracked a few moments with a prank message after Senator Stephen Conroy made his appearance on the ABC current affairs panel show Q&A on Thursday evening.
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After a load of talk that the ABC is considering launching a mobile version of their website (and with the advertising talk – since it was technically allowed to put ads online); the ABC has finally did it.
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