Television
Melbourne is served by six free-to-air television networks. The three commercial television providers, the Seven Network, the Nine Network and the Ten Network have commenced broadcasting new digital only sub-channels including 7Two, 7mate, GEM HD, GO! and One HD. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation provides four channels, ABC1, ABC2, ABC3 and ABC News 24 from the Ripponlea and Southbank studios. ABC2, ABC3 and ABC News 24 are only available with digital receivers. SBS television also provides two television channels, SBS One on both analogue and digital and SBS Two on digital only (previously known as SBS World News Channel), dedicated to world news and entertainment coverage. Channel 31 is a public access community television station which screens mostly foreign-language television for migrant communities, and amateur lifestyle programs.
Melbourne has a large and thriving television industry that along with Sydney, produces most of the Australian prime-time television content. Melbourne produced television series include Neighbours, Kath & Kim, Hey Hey It's Saturday, The Footy Show (AFL), Blue Heelers, Dancing with the Stars, Steven Spielberg's The Pacific, Rush, Underbelly, Thank God You're Here, Rove Live, Summer Heights High, The 7PM Project, The Marngrook Footy Show, Double Take and Live From Planet Earth.
The ABC has a large headquarters and production facility in the inner-city suburb of Southbank, SBS studios at Fed Square, C31 at Melbourne city, Nine at Docklands (it was moved from Richmond), Ten at South Yarra & Seven at Docklands.
Melbourne is also served by paid subscription television services Foxtel, Optus TV and UBI World TV.
See also: Television broadcasting in AustraliaRead more about this topic: Media In Melbourne
Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)
“So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)