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ABC refreshes website

ABC TV has relaunched its official website to incorporate ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24 and ABC iView.

ABC TV has relaunched its official website to incorporate ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24 and ABC iView.

The new site has added a new one-stop Watch Now section with streaming content available on iView, individual program sites and downloads.

An improved Electronic Program Guide (EPG) links individual programs to websites and iView screenings and also allows people to search by genre.

One of the site’s best features, Connect, brings together ABC shows and personalities that utilise social networking: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, mobile apps and widgets plus Messageboards and Studio Audience information.

Head of Multiplatform, Arul Baskaran says, “With so much content available, it’s hard enough to know what to watch on a single channel, let alone on four, plus our comprehensive catch up service ABC iView. We hope our new site will help audiences by highlighting the best content available, offering channels to see what our audience themselves are recommending to each other and also making it easier to find that content online.”

A TV Tonight poll recently voted ABC online forums second only to TEN’s.

You can check it out at abc.net.au/tv

3 Responses

  1. This shows a great attitude but where is the equivalent on-air? When watching a show on ABC1 I never get told what’s now or next on ABC2 or ABC3 or News24. I’m basically lucky to see a promo for ABC2 later this week. All we ever get told is what’s next on the same channel we’re watching, but we normally already know that. Don’t we? So tell us something we don’t know.

    The same principle applies to station logos permanently visible during shows and not during promos. They never think!

  2. The 3 commercial networks should take a page out of abc’s book. They’re online presence is brilliant. I understand it would be harder to immitate that level of quality for a commercial tv network due to ads, but ten, 7 and nine looks lime they aren’t even trying (the same can be said for nine and 7’s second digital channels, go! And 7two are increasingly becoming like their parent channels, with poorer quality content.)

  3. I just wish they would improve the resolution of iView shows. It’s a horrific block-fest at the moment even on a 13″ notebook screen, let alone on a 40″ HD screen via the PS3.

    It’s unmetered for most, anyway, so the amount of data used shouldn’t make a difference.

    Ideally they’d abandon the use of Flash, too, and save the batteries of notebook users everywhere…

    The new site looks terrific, however.

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