ABC Television in Western Australia comprises national and local programming on the ABC television network in the Australian state of Western Australia, on a number of channels under the ABC call sign. There is some local programming from the Perth studio.
ABW or ABW-2 was the historic call sign of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Perth, with the "W" standing for the name of the state.
History The station began broadcasting on 7 May 1960 from studios on Adelaide Terrace in downtown Perth and its transmitter at Bickley. The station was relayed throughout the state by a number of transmitters, and in the 2000s on the Optus Aurora free-to-view satellite television platform, replaced by Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) in 2010.
ABW commenced digital television transmission in January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 12 while maintaining analogue television transmission on VHF Channel 2.
In 2005 the station moved to a new digital broadcast centre in East Perth.ABC Sound Broadcasting and Television Studios, Perth InHerit
In February 2013 ABC Perth was the first TV station in Western Australia to start producing a national news bulletin at 5.30pm.
The analogue signal for ABW was shut off on 16 April 2013.
The Western Australian edition of 7.30 was presented by Andrew O'Connor each Friday night but was cancelled in 2014 to broadcast a national edition only, in a round of severe cuts to the ABC.
The channel used to carry live coverage of West Australian Football League matches every Saturday afternoon throughout the season until 2014.
ABC Television in WA today there is a large number of transmitters broadcasting a number of ABC channels. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Programming
ABC News Western Australia is presented by Pamela Medlen (Monday-Thursday), Charlotte Hamlyn (Friday-Sunday,) and Herlyn Kaur for weather on weeknights. Tom Wildie presents local sport bulletins on weekends. The weeknight bulletins also incorporates a national finance segment presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne.
Due to different time zones in Australia, the 5:30 news bulletin goes live to air on the east coast at 5.30pm and a separate local edition is produced for the west coast. Perth also receives a local version of ABC News at Noon produced from the ABC's Sydney studios, which is also simulcast live nationally on the ABC News channel.
Presenters On 6 April 2018, weeknight weather presenter Rebecca Dollery stepped down from the ABC due to family reasons. From 9 April, Dollery was replaced by Irena Ceranic as weather presenter. In January 2021, Tyne Logan took over from Ceranic as weather presenter on weeknights. As at March 2023, Herlyn Kaur or Tabarak Al Jrood currently present the weeknight weather, replacing Tyne Logan.
In late June 2018, Tom Wildie replaced Trevor Jenkins as the weekend sport presenter.
James McHale formerly presented the news on weekdays, until 11 September 2020.
Briana Shepherd formerly presented the news on weekends, between August 2021 and June 2022, while Charlotte Hamlyn is on maternity leave.
Relay stations The following stations relayed ABW throughout Western Australia: Call Region served City Channels(analog/digital) First air date 3rd letter'smeaning ERP(analog/digital) HAAT(analog/digital) Transmitter coordinates Transmitter location ABAW Southern Agricultural Area Albany 2 (VHF)11 (VHF) 6 June 1966 Albany 200 kW50 kW 321 m375 m Mount Barker ABCW Central Agricultural Area Northam 5A (VHF)45 (UHF) 28 March 1966 Central Agricultural area 160 kW300 kW 251 m270 m Mawson Trig ABCMW Morawa Morawa 8 (VHF)7 (VHF) 8 March 1975 ABC Morawa 13 kW3.2 kW 137 m137 m Mount Campbell ABCNW Carnarvon Carnarvon 7 (VHF)6 (VHF) 30 June 1972 CarnarvoN 0.5 kW0.125 kW 112 m112 m Brown Range ABDW Dampier Dampier 29 (UHF)28 (UHF) 17 December 1973 Dampier 0.08 kW0.02 kW 79 m79 m Kangaroo Hill ABEW Esperance Esperance 10 (VHF)9A (VHF) 21 October 1974 Esperance 2 kW0.5 kW 128 m130 m Wireless Hill ABGW Geraldton Geraldton 6 (VHF)41 (UHF) 8 December 1969 Geraldton 32 kW150 kW 257 m273 m Moresby Range ABKW Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie 6 (VHF)9A (VHF) 27 January 1970 Kalgoorlie 8 kW4 kW 110 m110 m Peters Hill ABKAW Karratha Karratha 54 (UHF)53 (UHF) 17 December 1973 KarrathA 0.8 kW0.25 kW 114 m114 m Karratha ABMW Moora Moora 60 (UHF)52 (UHF) 30 September 1974 Moora 120 kW30 kW 142 m142 m Quarrel Range ABNW Norseman Norseman 7 (VHF)6 (VHF) 14 April 1971 Norseman 0.08 kW0.02 kW 69 m70 m Norseman ABPHW Port Hedland Port Hedland 7 (VHF)8 (VHF) 3 October 1973 Port Hedland 3 kW0.75 kW 52 m52 m Finucane Island ABRBW Roebourne Roebourne 9 (VHF)9A (VHF) 17 December 1973 RoeBourne 2 kW0.5 kW 71 m73 m Mount Welcome ABSW Bunbury Bunbury 5 (VHF)36 (UHF) 10 May 1965 South West 300 kW300 kW 308 m332 m Mount Lennard ABSBW Southern Cross/Bullfinch Southern Cross 9 (VHF)7 (VHF) 16 July 1973 Southern Cross/Bullfinch 2 kW0.5 kW 117 m118 m Ghooli ABW Broome Broome 8 (VHF)9 (VHF) Western Australia 2 kW0.5 kW 75 m75 m Broome
See also Television broadcasting in Australia ABC Radio Perth – radio station located in the same building
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