Australian Broadcasting Corporation
From The TV IV
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation | |
| |
| Founded | 1929 (as Australian Broadcasting Company) |
| President | Mark Scott |
| Notable Works | |
 This article about a company needs to be expanded with more information.Please help out by editing it. |
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national public broadcaster in Australia.
ABC runs five national radio networks and a chain of locally-oriented radio stations branded as ABC Local Radio, two television networks, and several cable and satellite channels.
ABC was founded in 1929 as the privately-owned Australian Broadcasting Company, the country's first radio nework. The Australian government acquired the network on July 1, 1932 and renamed it as the Australian Broadcasting Commission. ABC launched its television service, ABC Television (now known as ABC1), on November 5, 1956. The company received its present name in 1983.
ABC's iconic logo, the lissajous oscilloscope pattern, was first used in the 1950s, not as a logo, but as interstitial filler in between programs on ABC Television. The lissajous became the official ABC logo in 1965,[1] and beginning in 1975 with the introduction of color television in Australia, the logo underwent several modifications over the years until taking its present form in 2002.[2] [3]
[edit] Television Networks
- ABC Television, which operates:
[edit] Cable Television
- Australia Network
- ABC Kids Channel (shared air time with Fly TV, now defunct - revived as ABC2 in 2005)
- Fly TV (shared air time with ABC Kids Channel, now defunct - revived as ABC2 in 2005)
