ABW (TV station)
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| Perth, Western Australia | |
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| Channels | Digital: 12 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC Television |
| Owner | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date | 7 May 1960 |
| Call letters' meaning | ABC Western Australia |
| Former channel number(s) | 2 (VHF) (analog) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital) |
| Height | 262 m (analog) 284 m (digital)[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Website | www.abc.net.au/tv |
ABW is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Perth, Western Australia. The station began broadcasting on 7 May 1960 from studios on Adelaide Terrace in downtown Perth and its transmitter at Bickley. The station is relayed throughout the state by a number of transmitters as well as on the Optus Aurora free-to-view satellite television platform.
In 2005 the station moved to a new digital broadcast centre in East Perth.
Programming
ABC News Western Australia is presented by James McHale, Rebecca Dollery for weather on weeknights and Pamela Medlen on weekends. Trevor Jenkins presents local sport bulletins on Saturdays and Sundays. The weeknight bulletins also incorporates a national finance segment presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne.
The Western Australian edition of 7.30 is presented by Andrew O'Connor each Friday night.
Due to different time zones, ABW also receives a local version of the Midday Report produced from the ABN Sydney studios.
ABW used to carry live coverage of West Australian Football League matches every Saturday afternoon throughout the season until 2014. TVW now carries this along with the other seven network stations i.e. SAS, HSV
In February 2013 ABW was the first TV station in Western Australia to start producing a national news bulletin at 5.30pm. Due to different time zones in Australia, the bulletin goes live to air on the east coast at 5.30pm and a separate local edition is produced for the west coast.
ABW commenced digital television transmission in January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 12 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 2.
The analogue signal for ABW was shut off at 9.00am Western Standard Time, Tuesday, 16 April 2013.
Relay stations
The following stations relay ABW throughout Western Australia:
| Call | Region served | City | Channels (analog/ digital) |
First air date | 3rd letter’s meaning |
ERP (analog/ digital) |
HAAT (analog/ digital)[lower-alpha 1] |
Transmitter coordinates | Transmitter location |
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| ABAW | Southern Agricultural Area | Albany | 2 (VHF) 11 (VHF) |
6 June 1966 | Albany | 200 kW 50 kW |
321 m 375 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Mount Barker |
| ABCW | Central Agricultural Area | Northam | 5A (VHF)[lower-alpha 2] 45 (UHF) |
28 March 1966 | Central Agricultural area | 160 kW 300 kW |
251 m 270 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Mawson Trig |
| ABCMW | Morawa | Morawa | 8 (VHF) 7 (VHF) |
8 March 1975 | ABC Morawa | 13 kW 3.2 kW |
137 m 137 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Mount Campbell |
| ABCNW | Carnarvon | Carnarvon | 7 (VHF) 6 (VHF) |
30 June 1972 | CarnarvoN | 0.5 kW 0.125 kW |
112 m 112 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Brown Range |
| ABDW | Dampier | Dampier | 29 (UHF)[lower-alpha 3] 28 (UHF) |
17 December 1973 | Dampier | 0.08 kW 0.02 kW |
79 m 79 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Kangaroo Hill |
| ABEW | Esperance | Esperance | 10 (VHF) 9A (VHF) |
21 October 1974 | Esperance | 2 kW 0.5 kW |
128 m 130 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Wireless Hill |
| ABGW | Geraldton | Geraldton | 6 (VHF) 41 (UHF) |
8 December 1969 | Geraldton | 32 kW 150 kW |
257 m 273 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Moresby Range |
| ABKW | Kalgoorlie | Kalgoorlie | 6 (VHF) 9A (VHF) |
27 January 1970 | Kalgoorlie | 8 kW 4 kW |
110 m 110 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Peters Hill |
| ABKAW | Karratha | Karratha | 54 (UHF)[lower-alpha 4] 53 (UHF) |
17 December 1973 | KarrathA | 0.8 kW 0.25 kW |
114 m 114 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Karratha |
| ABMW | Moora | Moora | 60 (UHF)[lower-alpha 5] 52 (UHF) |
30 September 1974 | Moora | 120 kW 30 kW |
142 m 142 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Quarrel Range |
| ABNW | Norseman | Norseman | 7 (VHF) 6 (VHF) |
14 April 1971 | Norseman | 0.08 kW 0.02 kW |
69 m 70 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Norseman |
| ABPHW | Port Hedland | Port Hedland | 7 (VHF) 8 (VHF) |
3 October 1973 | Port Hedland | 3 kW 0.75 kW |
52 m 52 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Finucane Island |
| ABRBW | Roebourne | Roebourne | 9 (VHF) 9A (VHF) |
17 December 1973 | RoeBourne | 2 kW 0.5 kW |
71 m 73 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Mount Welcome |
| ABSW | Bunbury | Bunbury | 5 (VHF)[lower-alpha 6] 36 (UHF) |
10 May 1965 | South West | 300 kW 300 kW |
308 m 332 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Mount Lennard |
| ABSBW | Southern Cross/Bullfinch | Southern Cross | 9 (VHF) 7 (VHF) |
16 July 1973 | Southern Cross/Bullfinch | 2 kW 0.5 kW |
117 m 118 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Ghooli |
| ABW | Broome | Broome | 8 (VHF) 9 (VHF) |
2 kW 0.5 kW |
75 m 75 m |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Broome |
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