ABS is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Adelaide, South Australia. It began broadcasting on 11 March 1960 from studios in the suburb of Collinswood. The station's transmitter is located at Mount Lofty, and is one of a series of relay transmitters located throughout the state.

Local programming

The nightly 7pm state news bulletin ABC News South Australia is presented by Jessica Schacht on weeknights and Anita Savage on weekends. The weeknight bulletins also incoprorate national finance segment is presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne. Weekend bulletins feature local sport bulletins presented by Neil Cross.

The weekly local current affairs program, 7.30 South Australia is broadcast each Friday night at 7:30pm and presented by Simon Royal.

ABS also carries live coverage of South Australian National Football League matches every Saturday afternoon.

Networked programming

• Behind the News
• Poh's Kitchen
• News on 3

Relay Stations

The following stations relay ABS throughout South Australia:

Notes:

• 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
• 2. ABCS was on VHF channel 7 from its 1973 sign-on until sometime in the 1980s.
• 3. Analogue transmissions ceased as of 15 December, 2010 as part of the national shutdown of analogue television.

See also

• Television broadcasting in Australia

References