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the start of the ABC
The first radio station in Australia opened in Sydney on 23 November 1923. Other stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart followed. A licensing, scheme was made by the Postmaster-General's Department and soon established allowing certain stations government funding, -
1924
In 1924 the licencing system was changed. The Postmaster-General's Department collected all licence fees and broadcasters were funded as A-Class or B-Class. A-Class stations received government funding and were able to take limited advertising, B-Class stations received no government funding but had more advertising. by 1925 the A-class stations were in a financial diasastior. -
1927
By 1927 the Royal Commission recommended that radio license fees be taken away to fund larger A-Class stations. The government established the National Broadcasting Service to take over the 12 A-Class licenses. The original legislation permitted advertising, but this was removed from the Act before it came into effects at the same time, the government created the Australian Broadcasting Company. -
1932
The Postmaster-General's Department (which operated postal and telephone services) was in charge for operating the National Broadcasting Service. As a result, the Australian Broadcasting Commission was established on 1 July 1932 to control the Australian Broadcasting Company and to run the National Broadcasting Service. The ABC was based on the BBC model, funded primarily from listener license fees with some government grants. -
the 12 original stations of the ABC
There were twelve original broad casting stations for the ABC and they were: 2FC Sydney, 2BL Sydney, 3AR Melbourne, 3LO Melbourne, 4QG Brisbane, 5CL Adelaide, 6WF Perth, 7ZL Hobart, 2NC Newcastle, 2CO Corowa, 4RK Rock Hampton, 5CK Crystal Brook. -
During World War 2
During the WWII ABC continued to recruit reporters, most of them women to replace men who had joined the Army. The organization established reporting facilities in a number of overseas locations, including the Middle East, Greece and the Asia-Pacific region. A challenge to its independence came in June, 1940 when wartime control was executed, meaning that the Department of Information (lead by Sir Keith Murdoch) took control of the ABC's 7 p.m. nightly national news bulletin. -
Post War
In December, 1945 "The Country Hour" premiered. Legislation passed in 1946 requiring the ABC to broadcast Parliament when in session, however the Commission frequently commented on the disruption this caused to its programming in its annual reports. The ABC was also required to secure its news for broadcasting purposes within the Commonwealth by its own staff. Abroad through such overseas news agencies and other overseas sources as it desired. The news department continued to expand. -
1960s and 1970s
Weekly current affairs program Four Corners began in 1961. A series of interviews with prominent Australians. Direct relays between Sydney and Melbourne, as well as Canberra, were also established in 1961, replacing temporary relays as a means of simultaneously airing programs across multiple stations. Videotape equipment, allowing the sharing of footage with much greater ease and speed, was installed in each state capital by 1962 -
1980s
The 1980s saw a number of major breakthroughs for the ABC. Sir Talbot Duckmanton resigned as General Manager in 1982, the same year that the Commission was host broadcaster for the annual Commonwealth Games, held in Brisbane. 1982 was also the Australian Broadcasting Commission's fiftieth anniversary, an event celebrated around the country, -
1990s
The 1990s saw the expansion of the ABC's network of ABC shops, which sell a wide range of program-related merchandise which included books, CDs and DVDs. During the same decade, ABC Online was established as a complement to the organization’s broadcasting endeavors. Triple J, meanwhile, had grown to cover all state capitals in addition to Darwin, Canberra, and Newcastle. -
2000s
The ABC's television program joined its radio and online divisions at the Corporation's headquarters in 2000. In the same year, digital television commenced after four years of preparation. In readiness, the ABC had fully digitized its production. Heralded at the time as 'the greatest advance in television technology since the introduction of color. The first programs to be produced in widescreen were drama series Something in the Air, Grass Roots and In the Mind of the Architect -
introduction of 4 new channels
between 2010 and 2000 there were 4 new channels comming to digitsal Television and they were: ABC 1 (2001), ABC 2 (2006) and ABC 3 in 2010 which a channel for kids. -
What Is TimeToast
Timetoast isa website that allowes you to create a timeline on anything. it is free and you can create as many timelines as you want. it is really usefull for school projects if you are studing WW1 you can create a timeline and just add events. once you have created your timeline it is really easy to create events, you just click add event and change the date to what ever date you want and just add info. the only downside to timetoast is the word limit. it varies from 200 to 100.
