ABW (TV station)


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

ABC News Western Australia is presented by James McHale, Irena Ceranic for weather on weeknights and Pamela Medlen on weekends. Tom Wildie 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 was presented by Andrew O'Connor each Friday night but was cancelled to broadcast a national edition only when the ABC had its funding cut.
Due to different time zones, ABW also receives a local version of ABC News at Noon produced from the ABN Sydney studios, which is also simulcast live nationally on the ABC News channel.
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
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.
On April 6, 2018, weeknight weather presenter Rebecca Dollery stepped down from the ABC due to family reasons. From April 9, Dollery was replaced by Irena Ceranic as weather presenter.
As at late June 2018, Trevor Jenkins is no longer used as a weekend sport present, he was replaced by Tom Wildie.

Relay stations

The following stations relay ABW throughout Western Australia:
CallRegion servedCityChannels
'		First air date3rd letter’s
meaning		ERP
'		HAAT
'		Transmitter coordinatesTransmitter location
ABAWSouthern Agricultural AreaAlbany2
11 		6 June 1966Albany200 kW
50 kW		321 m
375 m		Mount Barker
ABCWCentral Agricultural AreaNortham5A
45 		28 March 1966Central Agricultural area160 kW
300 kW		251 m
270 m		Mawson Trig
ABCMWMorawaMorawa8
7 		8 March 1975ABC Morawa13 kW
3.2 kW		137 m
137 m		Mount Campbell
ABCNWCarnarvonCarnarvon7
6 		30 June 1972CarnarvoN0.5 kW
0.125 kW		112 m
112 m		Brown Range
ABDWDampierDampier29
28 		17 December 1973Dampier0.08 kW
0.02 kW		79 m
79 m		Kangaroo Hill
ABEWEsperanceEsperance10
9A 		21 October 1974Esperance2 kW
0.5 kW		128 m
130 m		Wireless Hill
ABGWGeraldtonGeraldton6
41 		8 December 1969Geraldton32 kW
150 kW		257 m
273 m		Moresby Range
ABKWKalgoorlieKalgoorlie6
9A 		27 January 1970Kalgoorlie8 kW
4 kW		110 m
110 m		Peters Hill
ABKAWKarrathaKarratha54
53 		17 December 1973KarrathA0.8 kW
0.25 kW		114 m
114 m		Karratha
ABMWMooraMoora60
52 		30 September 1974Moora120 kW
30 kW		142 m
142 m		Quarrel Range
ABNWNorsemanNorseman7
6 		14 April 1971Norseman0.08 kW
0.02 kW		69 m
70 m		Norseman
ABPHWPort HedlandPort Hedland7
8 		3 October 1973Port Hedland3 kW
0.75 kW		52 m
52 m		Finucane Island
ABRBWRoebourneRoebourne9
9A 		17 December 1973RoeBourne2 kW
0.5 kW		71 m
73 m		Mount Welcome
ABSWBunburyBunbury5
36 		10 May 1965South West300 kW
300 kW		308 m
332 m		Mount Lennard
ABSBWSouthern Cross/BullfinchSouthern Cross9
7 		16 July 1973Southern Cross/Bullfinch2 kW
0.5 kW		117 m
118 m		Ghooli
ABW'''BroomeBroome8
9 		2 kW
0.5 kW		75 m
75 m		Broome