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25 unusual facts about Australian Broadcasting Corporation


101 Ranch Boys

They later had their own radio program for ABC radio which was broadcast both nationally and internationally through affiliates.

Austrosaurus

This find was described by the ABC news service as the largest bones now discovered to date in Australia, eclipsing 'Elliot'.

Charles Moses

Sir Charles Moses CBE (21 January 1900 in Little Hulton, Lancashire, England – 9 February 1988 in Sydney, Australia) headed the Australian Broadcasting Commission (which became the "Australian Broadcasting Corporation" in 1983) from 1935 until 1965.

Cumberland Grove Country Club

The launch was highly publicized throughout Australia by Network 10, Nine Network, SBS, the ABC, The Daily Telegraph and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Deepa Fernandes

Fernandes has worked as a freelance producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, InterWorld Radio and Pacifica Radio.

Denistone West, New South Wales

West Denistone Park features one of the finest sets of swings in the greater Sydney area, being featured briefly in an episode of Season 43 of Play School on the ABC.

Essgee Entertainment

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast the production on television throughout Australia, and the video/DVD enjoyed triple platinum sales, becoming the top-selling music video in Australian history.

Guy Pentreath

However, he felt that the war needed interpretation for Australians and he became a regular broadcaster on ABC radio.

Harris Street, Ultimo

However, redevelopment of Pyrmont from a largely industrial suburb to a more residential and commercial precinct has seen the University of Technology, Sydney and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation call Harris Street home.

Isaac Menyoli

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that he had been "voted the day's best Olympian overnight", and described him as a Winter Olympics' version of Eric the Eel.

Islands Business

ABC Radio describes it as an "influential regional publication".

John Henningham

Henningham graduated from the University of Sydney and worked as a journalist with newspapers the Daily Mirror, The Sun and The Australian and the ABC before entering journalism education.

Joyce Steele

Prior to her election, Joyce Steele was a homemaker, an ABC broadcaster and active in community organisations, including the Queen Adelaide Club (the women's equivalent of the restricted Adelaide Club).

Long way to the top

Long Way to the Top, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, with its associated book by James Cockington and National Concert Tour.

Martin J. O'Connor

He later moved to Australia where he worked with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a sports producer for TV and radio.

Mass graves in Chechnya

March 3, 2002: ABC reported that the Chechen rebels said they found a mass grave containing more than 20 bodies of civilians in a grain silo in the town of Argun, of whom they recovered three.

Natan Gamedze

In 2008, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced a documentary about Rabbi Gamzede's life titled Compass: The Black Jew of Swaziland.

New Traditionalists

The video was slightly censored for broadcasts on the ABC-TV music show Countdown.

Paleface Adios

In the early 1990s Paleface Adios was included in a satirical song honouring Australian sporting legends presented by Graham and The Colonel on ABC TV's The Late Show.

Star Stuff

StarStuff is a weekly half hour space and science program that airs on Australia's Government operated ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Swap Shop

Swap Shop (ABC program), an Australian Broadcasting Corporation children's television programme broadcast in 1990

Sydney Airports Corporation

The Chief Executive Officer of SACL is Mr. Russell Balding, formerly the Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Tim Chaisson

Prior to touring Australia, Broken Hearted Beat was released to Australia in October 2011 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was distributed by Universal Music.

Ultimo, New South Wales

The corporate headquarters and Sydney studios of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are located in its Ultimo Centre on Harris Street.

William G. James

In the late 1920s, he joined the newly formed Australian Broadcasting Company, the forerunner of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC).


1981 in Australian television

29 July - The Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer is broadcast across ABC and almost every commercial channel in Australia.

1991 in Australian television

5 November - The hit long running British science fiction series Doctor Who returns on ABC after a long absence since its last air in mid 1990, starting off with the fourth serial of Season 17 Nightmare of Eden and ending with the seventh and final serial of Season 18 Logopolis in early 1992.

1992 in Australian television

3 January - The long running British science fiction series Doctor Who airs its finale broadcast on ABC with the fourth and final part of the seventh and final serial of Season 18 Logopolis.

1994 in Australian television

March 27 - The Animals of Farthing Wood, a British children's animated series based on the books by Colin Dann premieres on ABC.

ABC Commercial

On 11 May 2008, sources from both the ABC and Dymocks revealed that the ABC was planning to close its 43 ABC Shops in two months' time.

Adam McDonald

McDonald's area of expertise is 20th century and industrial antiques, and his work has been reviewed on the ABC television program Auction Room.

Aiming for Your Head

The track "Aiming for Your Head" was the theme song of the ABC children's show Blue Water High.

Alice Springs Reptile Centre

Reptiles from the centre have featured in National Geographic Magazine, Wild Relations - Natural Born Cheats on ABC, an American Visa television commercial, New Zealand's The Bounty Hunters television show on TV2, Steve Irwin's Great Escapes on Discovery's Travel Channel and Animal Emergency on Channel 9 Australia.

Andrew Bolt

The blog covers a wide variety of topics, including climate change, Australian politics, the ABC and issues concerned with multiculturalism and Islam.

Dandenong High School

On 10 September 2009, Dandenong High School appeared on the TV news show, The 7.30 Report, on ABC.

David Boon

Boon was the subject of a regular skit on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's comedy show The Late Show in a segment called The Oz Brothers. Played by Santo Cilauro and Rob Sitch, Gavin and Neville Oz were quintessential Aussie cricket fans whose home was adorned with posters of Boon, and who would face Launceston and pray to a Budai statue with Boon's head, chanting "Legend... Legend... Dead-set legend... Top bloke... Top bloke."

Dead Gorgeous

The show is Produced by Burberry Productions and Coolabi Productions in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as Screen Australia, Film Victoria and distributed by Cake Distribution.

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock

The game received a 3.5 out of 20 from the game critics Stephanie Bendixsen and Gus Ronald on the ABC television program Good Game: Spawn Point, later describing what they truly wish a Doctor Who game would be like.

Drouin, Victoria

Both national public broadcasters, Australian Broadcasting Corporation including channels ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24 and Special Broadcasting Service including SBS One and SBS Two, and Channel 31 ,Community TV are broadcast to Drouin as well

Electoral district of Miranda

According to ABC psephologist Antony Green, the seat should have been recovered by the Liberals in 2007 but was narrowly retained by Labor.

Fear of a Brown Planet

In 2011, Australian Story broadcast a documentary on the ABC about about Rahman’s and Hussain’s lives in Australia as well as their debut performances in Edinburgh and London.

FORA.tv

FORA.tv's content partners include: The Asia Society, Aspen Institute, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Council on Foreign Relations, Duke University, Georgetown University, Heritage Foundation, The Hoover Institution, Transatlantic Institute and the World Affairs Council.

Helene Chung Martin

Helene Chung, journalist and author (also known as Helene Chung Martin), is a former Beijing correspondent, the first female posted abroad by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

Hot Snakes

In May 2005, while on tour in Australia, Hot Snakes recorded a live in-studio performance at ABC studios for Australian radio station JJJ.

Jack Absalom

He also starred in a number of television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) covering survival techniques and documentaries on the Australian outback, including “Absalom's Outback” when he travelled to remote outback locations in a Chrysler Sigma.

Jarod Green

Jarod Green, B.Media (Macq.), M.A.(Dir.) (AFTRS), DMCM (Brown) (born 23 May 1981) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and animator most notable for his work on the short film Beached Whale and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series Beached Az.

Kym Gyngell

His most notable characters included; "Leon" (Art critic who used to show up on talk shows and say the word "Crap"); and as characters sending up Kerry O'Brien (host of the ABC's The 7.30 Report) and John Laws (former 2UE radio broadcaster).

Lindley Evans

He is best known for his collaboration with Frank Hutchens in a famous piano duet, which lasted 41 years, and as the ABC's "Mr Melody Man" for 30 years.

Lonnie Lee

At this time, Lee made his first of many television appearances on the ABC's rock and roll television show Six O'Clock Rock as well as Bandstand compered by Brian Henderson.

Mark Kounnas

He has also been a television presenter on an ABC children's television series with his sister and fellow actor Melissa Kounnas.

Moe, Victoria

Both national public broadcasters, Australian Broadcasting Corporation including channels ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24 and Special Broadcasting Service including SBS One and SBS Two, are broadcast to the Latrobe Valley from the TV tower at Mount Tassie, as well as from the Dandenong Ranges transmitters located east of Melbourne.

Nova 96.9

One of the driving forces behind the creation of Nova was the growing demographic of youth who were embracing the commercialised anti-pop movement fronted by such artists as Daft Punk and Spiderbait, but for whom Triple J, operated by the publicly funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation, had no commercial incentives to offer.

Patsy Biscoe

During the early 1990s, Biscoe was parodied by Adelaide comedian Glynn Nicholas who played Paté Biscuit on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television comedy show, The Big Gig.

Paul Ireland

In 2012, he also acted in Australian Broadcasting Corporation comedy, Outland after auditioning and meeting the writers, who told him that they wanted a British actor in the role in the programme.

RS Productions

The company was founded by Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler, originally to produce comic sketches such as The Novels of Fiona Wintergreen and "anti-ads" (satirical advertisements for fictitious company Product Name) for ABC youth radio 2JJ (later JJJ).

Talbot Duckmanton

As General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission he oversaw the advent of colour television, ABC Classic FM and Triple J.

The Boffin, the Builder and the Bombardier

The series had its debut in April 2013, when it screened weekly on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC1.

The Hamster Wheel

The Hamster Wheel is an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television station ABC1.

The Muddle-Headed Wombat

In 1941 the Australian Broadcasting Commission decided to nationalise its Children's programs, broadcast from Sydney with Ida Elizabeth Osbourne as its first producer.

Thunder Down Under

The entire album was recorded live on May 10, 2005 in the studios of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for use on the radio station Triple J, and features songs from all three of the band's studio albums.

Vic Renalson

Renalson was a finalist in the ABC Sportsman of the Year award in 1968, and became a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1973 for services to sport and the community.

Wheeler Centre

The centre presents several one-off events with speakers including Irvine Welsh, Peter Carey and Naomi Wolf in co-operation with resident organisations and external partners including Sydney Writers' Festival and the ABC.