I doubt it would be a logo change – that’s far too important. It might be about ‘branding’ – the digital channel has been called ABC2 for ages – so ABC TV may become ABC 1. They’ve already promoted ABC Now, so I doubt it’s that.

“returns to ABC 1 on Tuesday the fifth of February at 9.25pm”.

Oooh…look. A flock of pigs overhead.

Seriously though, are Australian broadcasters becoming more and more irrelevant? They seem to be trying to alienate their viewers. Ten dumps Torchwood, which I hear got off to a fine start last week on BBC2. Even when they do bother to show some good shows, they plaster stupid watermarks all over them and then re-schedule them randomly so that nobody can remember to watch the shows.

There are just so many better options out there nowdays.

“…by the way, wiat till you see the horrors the ABC has in store from February with ABC1 and ABC2. Cant say anymore.”

This was in a thread talking about the abomination that is the new Nine HD watermark.

Hopefully the ABC will take this opportunity to move ABC1′s watermark to the corner of the 16:9 screen, not right in the middle.

By the way, Luke, the ABC’s HD channel is by no means the “lowest quality of all the broadcasters”. SBS takes that honour easily, for one thing. And the ABC’s 720p channel not only looks just fine with HD material like Rain Shadow, but also does excellent upscaling of all the other ABC programming – with no watermark (though I bet that is about to change, sadly).

I think it’s great that Aunty is coming in for a reworking… but let’s hope it’s not an ‘Extreme Makeover’!! Whilst change is good, it shouldn’t come at the expense of what currently makes the ABC great.