ABT (TV station)

ABT

Hobart, Tasmania
Channels	Digital: 2 (VHF)
Affiliations	ABC Television
Owner	Australian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date	4 June 1960
Call letters' meaning	ABC Tasmania
Former channel number(s)	2 (VHF)(analog)
Transmitter power	200 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital)
Height	1024 m (analog) 1042 m (digital)
Transmitter coordinates
Website	www.abc.net.au/tv

ABT is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Hobart, Tasmania. It began broadcasting on 4 June 1960, with studios in inner city Hobart and transmitter at Mount Wellington.

The analogue signal for ABT was shut off at 9.00am AEST, Tuesday, 9 April 2013.

Programming

Local programming

ABC News Tasmania is presented by Peter Gee on weeknights with weather presenter Simon McCulloch. Weekend bulletins are presented by Angela Ross. The weeknight bulletins also incorporate national finance segment presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne.

7.30 Tasmania, a locally produced current affairs program, airs every Friday night at 7:30 pm and is presented by Airlie Ward.

Network programming

• Collectors

Relay stations

The following stations relay ABT throughout Tasmania:

Call	Region served	City	Channels (Analog/ digital)	First air date	3rd letter’s meaning	ERP (Analog/ digital)	HAAT (Analog/ digital)1	Transmitter coordinates	Transmitter location
ABKT	King Island	King Island	11 (VHF)3 57 (UHF)	14 January 1972	King Island	2.6 kW 6.5 kW	190 m 198 m		Gentle Annie
ABNT	North Eastern Tasmania	Launceston	32 (UHF)3 41 (UHF)	29 July 1963	North Eastern	2000 kW 1250 kW	847 m 847 m		Mount Barrow

Notes:

• 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
• 2. ABNT was on VHF channel 3 from its 1963 sign-on until 2002, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
• 3. Analogue television services ceased operation April 9, 2013 as part of the national conversion to digital television

See also

• Television broadcasting in Australia