Comments on: Gallery: ABC3

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:39:27 +0000

i dont see the point of having it 6am to 9pm, its just wasting abc’s broadcasting abilities, put it on 24/7 even if 9pm to 6am is the sameshows but different episodes, it would be good for the older children or for kids that cant get to sleep at least the have something to comfort them after a bad dream or something…. please make it 24/7, 6-9 is ridiculous

By: Kirben

Kirben — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:44:04 +0000

tasmanian devil:
It wouldn’t be fair to drop all kids programming on the ABC1, until analogue is turned off in the future (2013). Although the additional kids programming during the school holidays on the ABC1, seems far too much though.

George:
The ABC3 is meant for kids programming, not for adults. It would be a waste to spend money on older content for nights, which only offers nostalgia to adults.

By: mc

mc — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:36:27 +0000

Re Zelda, the ABC has adopted that BBC model. ABC2’s children’s programming is “ABC for Kids” for preschoolers (like CBeebies) and ABC3 is the programs currently under “Rollercoaster” branding (like CBBC but catering to younger teenagers as well).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:24:57 +0000

George i could not agree more. Give some of those classic shows at night!

By: George

George — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:25:07 +0000

I don’t get why ABC3 is going off-air after 9PM. Like yes, kids should be in bed, yadiyada, but why not play some old kids show for us older people to reminisce over? lol
Same with ABC2, it’s annoying how it just gets shut off at night.

By: Zelda

Zelda — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:22:37 +0000

While I love the concept for ABC3, I would have much rather they headed down the BBC track of CBBC and CBBeebies and targeted different age groups for each channel. Its the one thing I miss about the UK – the BBC and the other free to air channels….Sooo mcuh better than Anything here.

By: tasmanian devil

tasmanian devil — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:30:26 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, I am looking forward to this channel, but it seems to me that the ABC is a bit clueless about children’s television. Firstly, someone ought to tell the ABC that ABC3’s target audience is in school during the daytime. They are premiering Barney’s Barrier Reef at 8:55am and then they’ll wonder why nobody watched it.

Secondly, they seem to think that kids will die without television so must fill their schedule with repeats (which kids “apparently” don’t mind) across all three channels, meaning that people who would like to watch something else are left out in the cold.

Thirdly, ABC 2 and 3 have enough content without ABC 1 to prop them up, yet the ABC insists on catering to analogue-only viewers, which is not helping the digital switchover.

And fourthly, ABC wrongly makes an effort to distance “children’s television” from “educational television”. If kids are to watch TV, it might as well be educational.

By: Kirben

Kirben — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:01:03 +0000

Moving all the kids programming (from the ABC2), to the ABC3 definitely would have made more sense. The amount of new kids programming announced so far would be better suited to a single channel, rather than been spread over three channels. Instead the ABC2/3 will have more endless repeats of kids series, while adults have even less variety.

There is actually a lack of new kids programming on (free to air) TV, especially good quality content. The majority of kids programming is repeats.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:57:35 +0000

I’m still annoyed that because of the ABC3 channel we loose good programming on the weekends so they can extend the kids programs on ABC2 from 6am to 6pm. What is the point of that? What a stupid thing to do.

Surely we have enough kids stuff on TV.

I’ll be sending a letter of complete annoyance to the network. Just going to have wait a bit – don’t want to send the letter with full of swear words and exclamation points!

Looks like ABC is heading towards the Australian Broadcasting Children network now… disappointing.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:51:37 +0000

Troy its in my Advance Guides.

ABC3 off air at 9pm.

By: Bogues

Bogues — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:33:48 +0000

Does anyone know what ABC3 is going to screen between 9pm and 6am? Currently they are alternating between a static screen and music clips (with rage branding). I really hope that they show rage in the ‘off-air’ time.

By: Kirben

Kirben — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:03:33 +0000

The ABC3 continues to sound worst and worst, with more reality TV series (Serious Ocean), more stupid series (Michaela’s Wild Challenge), and more repeats (A Very Barry Christmas, Don’t Blame the Koalas).

Prank Patrol looks even more ridiculous than I expected, why is the ABC even encouraging kids to set up pranks?

The ABC seems to think kids will watch anything these days, and could really use someone who cares about providing good quality and new content.

By: Pimpernel Red

Pimpernel Red — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:08:46 +0000

Wonderful, I shall be tuning in. And launching just when the “ratings” end and the commercials go to sleep for 3 months and the school hols start, brilliant!

But Please, ABC people, could we do something about the dreadful “watermarks”. The ABC has gone from “we won’t have them” back in the early days of digital, to having the Worst most annoying “watermarks” of all the fta stations. Not Good. A simple “ABC1″, “ABC2″ and “ABC3″ in the top left hand corner of the wide screen is all that’s required if you insists the viewer “needs to know what station they are watching”.

By: Troy

Troy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:46:25 +0000

Do you know when the schedules for ABC3 will become available?