Australian Television
Digital Television Information is under
“Australian Digital Television”
The Television Broadcasters
Commonwealth Government (Taxpayer
Funded)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
(Also involved in MW, SW Radio, Satellite etc)
HQ:GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001
Phone +61 (02)9437 8000
Melbourne:
[ABV 2, ABV 5, ABV 61]
Web: www.abc.net.au
This National Broadcasting Service is provided by the Commonwealth of Australia, which is responsible to Federal Parliament via the Minister Of Communciations.
ABC TV is provided on a national, state and regional basis. All 7pm ABC News Bulletins are provided for each Capital City via a studio in that city. (Melbourne’s ABC TV is at Ripponlea).
AB_ TV is Channel 2 in all Capital Cities. (ABV-Vic,
ABQ-Queensland, etc.)
ABC TV also provides Homestead and Community Broadcast Satellite services so ABC TV can reach right across Australia, and to provide free-to-air TV for those living in outback Australia on Cattle stations etc.
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
HQ: Locked Bag 028, Crows Nest, NSW 2065
Phone +61 (02)9430 2828
Melb/Vic:
[SBS 28, SBS 58, SBS 68]
PO Box 294, Sth Melbourne, VIC 3205
Phone +61 (03)9685 2828
Web: www.sbs.com.au
SBS Provides a free-to-air national broadcasting service of which the majority is foreign-language movies. SBS does provide a lot of international soccer coverage, along with probably the most detailed world news service, (Which is broadcast in English)available on free-to-air. The station broadcasts in a vast majority of languages from all over the world.
It is a mostly Government subsidised company, however a recent introduction of small commercial breaks has not altered the multicultural diversity of this broadcaster, and continues to provide the various people from all over the world who call Australia home a free-to-air broadcaster.
SBS TV is Channel 28 in Capital Cities Only
Imparja Television
PO Box 2924, Alice Springs, NT 0871
Phone +61 (89)523 744
This station provides Alice Springs and other Aboriginals with a free-to air service. It is available in Alice Springs and some other places in NT, QLD and SA.
Commercial
Television Stations
Federation Of Australian Commercial
Television Stations
44A Avenue Rd, Mossman NSW 2088
Phone +61 (02)9960 2622
The Seven Network (Including Prime TV, and
GWN in Regional Areas.)
HQ: Television Centre, Mobbs Lane, Epping, NSW 2121
Phone +61 (02)9858 7777
Melbourne:
[HSV 7, HSV 49, HSV 59]
Broadcast Centre
160 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands, VIC 3008
Phone +61 (03)9697 7777
Production Centre
119 Wells Rd, Southbank, VIC 3006
Phone +61 (03)9697 7777
News Tips: Phone 6967 7876
Web: www.i7.com.au
(5 owned & 10 affiliated stations)
Prime
Television/ Seven Queensland/ GWN Golden West Network (Regional
Victoria-Melbourne Office)
Level 4, 40 Albert St, South Melbourne, VIC 300
The Seven Network Broadcast on TV Channel 7 in all
Capital Cities ONLY
The Nine Network (Including WIN TV and NBN TV
in Regional Areas)
HQ: PO Box 27, Willoughby, NSW 2068
Phone +61 (02)9906 9999
Melbourne:
[GTV 9, GTV 52, GTV 62]
General Television Corporation Pty Ltd
22 Bendigo St, Richmond, VIC 3121
Phone: +61 (03)9429 0201
Web: www.ninemsn.com.au
WIN
Television/NBN Television (Regional Victoria-Melbourne Office)
Level 4, 150 Albert Rd, South Melbourne, VIC
Phone: +61 (03)9690 1622
This office covers advertising sales, direct advertisering for WIN Vic, WIN Tasmania, WIN Mildura, WIN WA, WIN QLD, NBN Northern NSW, WIN Southern NSW and WIN Griffith.
The Nine Network Broadcast on TV Channel 9 in all Capital
Cities ONLY
Network Ten Australia (Including TEN [State]
in Regional Areas)
HQ: PO Box 10, Lane Cove, NSW 2066
Phone +61 (02)9887 0222
Melbourne:
[ATV 10, ATV 55, ATV 65]
Network Ten Pty Ltd
620 Chapel Street, South Yarra, VIC
Phone: +61 (03)9275 1010
Web: www.ten.com.au
Network Ten Broadcast on TV Channel 10 in all Capital
Cities ONLY
Please send further addresses, station information, whatever you can find on TV, from other state’s contact details (See Television Stations in the Yellow Pages)
As I will try to add as much as I can find on TV Networks in Australia, including PAY-TV, which will be added in the future
Please
feel free to re-print, re-publish this information on another website, provided
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contains information on scanning. (Which is really “Wide Range Receiving”, not
“scanning”)
A VicNews Publication for
the Australian Scanning Encyclopedia
©Copyright 2003
Information
correct as at Tuesday, January 14, 2003.
NOTES:
1. Two, Seven, Nine & Ten are only actually broadcast on these frequencies in all Australian Capital Cities. Outside these areas different channels among the 69 frequency pairs are used, otherwise, when atmospheric conditions change people in Melbourne would get cross-band interference from country broadcasts, while the country people would get interference from the city, resulting in snowy pictures, lines in the picture, in some, and extremely rare cases, no picture at, ven though the TV is working fine and tuned to the right frequency (In this case two signals from different areas have hit the antenna at exactly the same milli-second, cancelling each other out, and therefore, no picture.
2. Some, mostly larger populations, have some, if not
a significant amount of local content. Ie. Albury, Wagga, Ballarat, Newcastle,
Mildura, Bendigo etc. Which commercial stations provide local TV coverage
varies between individual stations. Which stations provide local content can be
worked out by simply travelling to that town. If everyone who reads this site can please
tell me if they are provided with, for example a National News at 6pm on Prime,
followed by the Albury News at 6.30pm on Prime, last time I was in Albury this
was the case. Please email TV information for your town.
The Complete list of Australian TV Broadcast Standards, Frequencies, Channels, Callsigns etc is provided elsewhere on this website, for both Digital and Analogue TV.
International TV Information will be added in the future. PAY TV will be added in the future.