ABW (TV station)

ABW
Perth, Western Australia
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)
Transmitter coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Website	www.abc.net.au/tv

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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

East Perth studios

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

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News studio

File:ABC Perth - Satellite Link Truck (E37@OpenHousePerth2014).JPG

Satellite link truck, used for outside broadcasts or live crosses

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
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

↑ HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
↑ ABCW was on VHF channel 4 from its 1966 sign-on until the late 1970s, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
↑ ABDW originally broadcast on VHF channel 10.
↑ ABKAW originally broadcast on VHF channel 7.
↑ ABMW was on VHF channel 10 from its 1974 sign-on until 1987, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate a new TV station in Perth on channel 10 (NEW).
↑ ABSW is the only station in Australia to use channel 5.

References

↑ HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.

[2] HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.

[3] ABCW was on VHF channel 4 from its 1966 sign-on until the late 1970s, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.

[4] ABDW originally broadcast on VHF channel 10.

[5] ABKAW originally broadcast on VHF channel 7.

[6] ABMW was on VHF channel 10 from its 1974 sign-on until 1987, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate a new TV station in Perth on channel 10 (NEW).

[7] ABSW is the only station in Australia to use channel 5.

[1] HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.

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v t e ABC Television
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Current channels	ABC ABC HD (relaunch in June 2016) ABC2 ABC Kids ABC3 ABC News 24 (HD)
Stations	Australian Capital Territory Northern Territory New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia
Defunct channels	ABC Kids (2001-2003) Fly TV
International channels	Australia Plus
See also	Australian Broadcasting Corporation History of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Programs ABC iview

v t e Television in Western Australia
Perth	ABW (ABC) TVW (Seven) STW (Nine) NEW (Ten) SBS WTV
South West and Great Southern	ABW (ABC) SSW (GWN7) WOW (WIN) SDW (Ten West) SBS
Kalgoorlie	ABKW (ABC) VEW (GWN7) WOW (WIN) VDW (Ten West) SBS
Geraldton	ABGW (ABC) GTW (GWN7) WOW (WIN) GDW (Ten West) SBS
Remote areas	ABW (ABC) WAW (GWN7) WOW (WIN) WDW (Ten West) SBS

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