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ABC History Timeline
This is a timeline recording the most important events of the ABC's (Australian Brodcasting Coperation) history. -
Firsted Aired
The ABC Rado first aired in 1932 by a man named Conrad Charlton. He later recored his voice of the opening sentence, "This is the Australian Broad Casting Comission relaying throughout Australia, the opening night of the newly constatuted Australian Brodcasting Commission" - respoken on his 40th birthday. The original was never recored as it was to expensive. -
Cricket
The first few broadcasting of live cricket over the radio happened in 1938. ABC explanded it only took one minute for the actual commentating from England to be heard in Australia. -
War
A famous informing of the declaration of war, coming to help Great Britain agaisnt the country Germany. Australia is to go to war. -
First Women Newsreader
It was unheard of a women being a newsreader before 1941 when the ABC hired Margaret Doyle. This was because of the war which would take the majority of men to battle, leaving women to either help the wounded or help in otherways at home. -
First Brodcast of Parliament
Peter McGregor commentated the first brodcasted parliament brodcast. -
ABC TV Brodcast
WHen The ABC TV first brodcasted on the YV in 1956 included an oversight of whats to come, unfortunetly this also included other multiple mistakes, but would later be seen as quite funny. -
AM
The AM took some time to take off and be started properly, but it finally took its place in 1967. It also marked the use of two new cables which were much powerful then the last. The AM was used to brodcast predominetly news coverage. -
Aunty Jack - Colour
Aunty Jack introduced colour to the world of TV in 1975 on the ABC. Aunty Jack a TV show just beat the colour commercials by two minutes and was the first TV show to every have colour on the ABC. -
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games in 1982 were broadcasted in 1982 by the ABC radio. Highlights and commentations of most events were broadcasted throughout Australia. -
ABC Online
http://abc.net.au was the first website published by the ABC offically on the 14th of Augest, 1995. it included serveal site links e.g. Triple J, Radio Australia, Hot Chips and many more. -
ABC News Online
The ABC News Online launched in 1998 for the first time in ABC's history with both Audio and Video componets on the internet. It was built for multiple access to news as many people were moving from listening or reading news to using the internet. -
Dig Radio
Dig Radio was launched in 2002 on the ABC's website. Dig was created for marute people to be able to listen different ranges of music on the internet, TV and other may other forms. Commentation and reviews of music was also an addition. In Dig's later life it had serveral digital channels on digital TVs. -
ABC 2
When free to air digital TV channel ABC took full advantage by creating a second channel dubbed 'ABC 2'. It's content was mainly shows for children so that families could watch news on ABC and other forms or entertainment on ABC 2 together. -
Podcasting
Podcasting first started for the ABC in 2005 with several programs taking use of the new content e.g. Sport, Current Affairs and many more. Increases of mp3 downloads were huge when first launched including an uprise of 3,700 downloads per week to 102,000 per week for Radio Nation. -
Timetoast
Timetoast is a website that enables you to publish several events or timespans in a timeline. It enables you to add a timespan and in that; include information, pictures and dates.
It's easy to use and is a good and different way of presenting work.
