ABC to launch new kids channel with simulcast

Tim Burrowes

November 23, 2009 7:56

The ABC is to go all out to push it’s new digital TV channel for kids ABC3, including a simulcast with ABC1 on its December 4 launch.

The ABC will be the first of the free to air networks to launch a third digital channel.

Seven was last to launch a second channel, finally doing so at the beginning of this month with general entertainment channel 7Two, although it has signalled that its third channel will follow next year.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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