ABN (TV station)

ABC Television in New South Wales comprises national and local programming on the ABC television network in the Australian state of New South Wales, headquartered in Sydney.

ABN or ABN-2 was the historic call sign of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Sydney. The very first national public television station in Australia officially launched with a grand opening night ceremony featuring Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies in Sydney at 7:00:00pm Sydney Time on 5 November 1956, with Michael Charlton introducing the station's inaugural program and James Dibble reading the station's first news bulletin. Its original studios were located in Gore Hill and were in use up until March 2004, when they were co-located with ABC Radio, Radio Australia, ABC-TV Set Construction and ABC Australia at the Corporation's headquarters in the inner city suburb of Ultimo. Its main transmitter, however, remains at Gore Hill. The station can be received throughout the state through a number of relay transmitters, as well as domestic satellite transmission on the Viewer Access Satellite Television (formerly Optus Aurora) platform.