ABC is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

's television station in Canberra

Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

, Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

. The station began broadcasting on 18 December 1962 and broadcasts from studios in Dickson

Dickson, Australian Capital Territory

Dickson is a suburb in the Inner North of Canberra, Australia. It is named after Sir James Dickson who was a Queensland advocate of Australian Federation and one of the founders of the Australian Constitution...

 and its main transmitter is at Black Mountain

Black Mountain (Australian Capital Territory)

Black Mountain is situated close to the central business district of Australia's capital city Canberra. Like all major hills in Canberra it is protected from development by the Canberra Nature Park. It is covered in native bushland and is a haven to native wildlife.With its peak at 811.987m AHD,...

.

Local programming

In the ACT, the ABC produces a nightly 7pm state news bulletin ABC News Canberra, presented by Virginia Haussegger on weeknights and Craig Allen on weekends. Weeknight weather forecasts are presented by Mark Carmody and weekend sport bulletins are presented by Chris Kimball. The weeknight bulletins also incoprorate a national finance presented by Alan Kohler

Alan Kohler

Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist since 1971. He began as a cadet on The Australian; has been a columnist for Chanticleer in The Australian Financial Review and was Editor of the AFR between 1985 and 1988...

 in Melbourne.

The weekly current affairs program, 7.30

7.30

7.30 is an Australian nightly television current affairs programme ABC1 and ABC News 24 at , Monday to Friday. A national edition screens from Monday to Thursday, produced at the ABN studios in Ultimo, Sydney and presented by Leigh Sales and Chris Uhlmann. A local edition with a focus on state...

 ACT

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

airs on Friday nights at 7:30pm, presented by Chris Kimball.