ABC Television in New South Wales comprises national and local programming on the ABC television network in the Australian state of New South Wales, headquartered in Sydney.

ABN or ABN-2 was the historic call sign of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Sydney. The station began broadcasting on 5 November 1956 as the second television station in New South Wales and Sydney. Its original studios were located in Gore Hill and were in use up until March 2004, when they were co-located with ABC Radio, Radio Australia, ABC-TV Set Construction and ABC Australia at the Corporation's headquarters in the inner city suburb of Ultimo. Its main transmitter, however, remains at Gore Hill. The station can be received throughout the state through a number of relay transmitters, as well as domestic satellite transmission on the Viewer Access Satellite Television (formerly Optus Aurora) platform.

History The first national public television station in Australia opened in Sydney at 7:00pm on 5 November 1956 under the call sign ABN-2. It was opened by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies, with the first television broadcast presented by Michael Charlton, and James Dibble reading the first television news bulletin with full-time colour broadcasting introduced in March 1975.

For more than 40 years, Gore Hill was best known as the location of the ABC's Sydney television studios, which were fully opened in 1958 and which operated until 2002, when the site was closed and sold off. Later, the ABC moved its television operations to its broadcasting centre in Ultimo.

The station has also carried a number of programs originally produced at Channel 31 stations in other states (programs such as Aurora Community Channel and National Indigenous Television.

ABN commenced digital television transmission in January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 12 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 2.

The analogue television signal for Sydney, Gosford and surrounding areas was shut off at 9.00am on 3 December 2013.

In December 2024, the 7pm ABC News bulletin moved from Ultimo to the Corporation's new studios in Parramatta.

Programming Local programming ABN's schedule is similar to the national ABC schedule, with the exception of some news, current affairs, sport and occasionally, election programming.

ABC News New South Wales is presented by Jeremy Fernandez (Sunday–Thursday) and Lydia Feng (Friday–Saturday). The weeknight bulletins also incorporate NSW weather forecasts presented by Tom Saunders as well as a national finance segment presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne.

Digital multiplex LCN Service SD/HD 2 & 21 ABC TV SD 20 ABC TV HD HD 22 ABC Kids/Family SD 23 ABC Entertains HD 24 ABC News HD

Relay stations The following stations relay ABN throughout New South Wales: Call Region served City Channels(Analog/digital) First air date 3rd letter'smeaning ERP(Analog/digital) HAAT(Analog/digital) Transmitter coordinates Transmitter location ABCN Central Tablelands Orange 1 (VHF)36 (UHF) 31 March 1964 Central Tablelands 160 kW570 kW 655 m677 m Mount Canobolas ABDN Grafton/Kempsey Coffs Harbour 2 (VHF)36 (UHF) 28 June 1965Dorrigo 160 kW250 kW 661 m730 m Mount Moombil ABGN Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Griffith 7 (VHF)11 (VHF) 25 July 1966 Griffith 200 kW50 kW 416 m412 m Mount Bingar ABHN Newcastle/Hunter Valley Newcastle 5A (VHF)37 (UHF) 5 June 1963 Hunter River 200 kW250 kW 405 m440 m (analog) (digital) Mount Sugarloaf ABLN Broken Hill Broken Hill 2 (VHF)10 (VHF) 14 December 1965Unknown 5 kW4 kW 95 m104 m Rocky Hill ABMN South West Slopes and Eastern Riverina Wagga Wagga 0 (VHF)46 (UHF) 30 April 1965Unknown 200 kW600 kW 466 m543 m Mount Ulandra ABMIN Mungindi Mungindi 10 (VHF)NA 7 January 1974 MungindI 0.1 kW 59 m Mungindi ABQN Central Western Slopes Dubbo 11 (VHF)12 (VHF) 12 September 1966Unknown 400 kW100 kW 638 m638 m Mount Cenn Cruaich ABRN Richmond and Tweed Lismore 6 (VHF)29 (UHF) 20 April 1964 Richmond and Tweed 200 kW200 kW 621 m645 m Mount Nardi ABSN Bega/Cooma Bega 8 (VHF)NA 29 June 1966 South East 200 kW 428 m Brown Mountain ABTN Manning River Taree 6 (VHF)7 (VHF) 29 April 1966 Taree 315 kW80 kW 599 m599 m Middle Brother ABUN Upper Namoi Tamworth 7 (VHF)8 (VHF) 27 September 1965 Upper Namoi 72 kW22.5 kW 859 m849 m Mount Dowe ABWN Illawarra Wollongong 56 (UHF)51 (UHF) 28 October 1963 Wollongong 960 kW250 kW 618 m618 m (analog) (digital) Knights Hill

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