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follow the story Australia’s number one news channel will broadcast extended news programs across the day, and introduce a two presenter format to afternoons and evenings. Joe O’Brien presents extended coverge from 9.00am. At 12.00pm Ros Childs will host an extended three hour news program with a is revamping its focus on business and politics. Tony Eastley and Kim Landers will host the afternoons from 3:00pm to 5:30pm. daily schedule Scott Bevan and Kumi Taguchi will host evenings from 7:00pm to to strengthen 8:30pm. The two host format will provide a more conversational style in programs that deliver the latest its breaking and news and analysis. Later in the evening a new look rolling news version of The World will be hosted by Jim Middleton and Zoe Daniel. The coverage. daily political affairs program, Capital Hill, moves to an earlier timeslot of 1:00pm and Grandstand, presented by Peter Wilkins, also moves to an earlier timeslot of 5:30pm and extends to five nights a week. For more information please contact: Rachel Baugh ABC TV Marketing & Communications T. 02 8333 4250 E. [email protected] ABC News 24 is streamed live online: abc.net.au/abcnews24 youtube.com/ABCnews24 follow @ABCNews24 6am-9am Start the day with quality news and analysis, ABC with Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland. News Weather with Vanessa O’Hanlon and sports news with Paul Kennedy. Viewers Breakfast can contribute to stories via twitter, email and Facebook. Mon-Fri 9am-12pm Be on the pace of the developing news stories each day as Joe O’Brien anchors a fast moving morning news program featuring live coverage of ABC News news events and crosses to reporters With Joe O’Brien and experts for on-the-spot reports, context and analysis. Mon-Fri Ros Childs hosts three hours of the latest national and international news with a particular focus on business and 12pm-3pm politics. The first hour from 12:00pm is broadcast on both ABC1 and ABC News 24. The second hour from 1.00pm includes Capital Hill, with Greg Jennett ABC News presenting the daily political round-up With Ros Childs with interviews with key political figures and analysis of the leading political issues of the day. At 2.00pm there is Mon-Fri another hour of the latest news except when Parliament is sitting and we cross to Question Time. Jane Hutcheon hosts on Fridays. Two of ABC News’ most experienced 3pm-5.30pm journalists and former foreign correspondents – Tony Eastley and Kim Landers, host the ABC News 24 afternoon coverage. Covering the ABC News latest news and the topics that have With Tony Eastley people talking, discussing the day’s events with interviews and analysis and Kim Landers from expert guests. Mon-Fri 5.30pm-6pm Peter Wilkins presents the latest sports news, features and discussion with contributions from the ABC’s popular radio and television sporting Grandstand commentators and leading sports With Peter Wilkins figures. From March 17 Grandstand will also be available on iview Mon-Fri Steve Cannane and Julia Baird alternate as hosts on The Drum - lively and thought-provoking discussion of 6pm-6.45pm the issues of the day from a variety of political and social commentators. The program offers opinion and analysis, debate and argument, in an The Drum engaging and entertaining way. The With Steve Cannane Drum’s sister website features ABC or Julia Baird columnists and other contributors, as well as video, blogs, polls and a ‘You Said It’ section. The Drum is repeated Mon-Fri at 9.00pm and is available on iview. What’s happening, covered in a quarter 6.45pm-7pm of an hour. The Quarters are a family of genre-based programs airing at 6.45pm weekdays, with encore screenings across the TV schedule. From The Health The Quarter or The Food Quarter to whatever you need to know in arts, finance and Quarters business – 15 minutes on the latest news, issues and developments in the topic Mon-Fri that interests you. 7pm-8.30pm Scott Bevan and Kumi Taguchi help make sense of the day with a round-up of the news that matters most. Giving ABC News the audience the whole picture, with With Scott Bevan and the best ABC reporting from home and across the globe. Kumi Taguchi Mon-Fri 8.30pm-9pm The day’s business and finance news, with the latest trends on international share and currency markets, pointing to what Australians can expect in the The Business day ahead. On ABC News 24, Monday With Ticky Fullerton to Thursday at 8.30pm and on ABC1 following Lateline. You can watch previous programs on the website and Mon-Thu podcasts are available. 9pm-9.45pm Replay of The Drum followed by The The Drum Quarters. On Monday nights The Drum replay is at 11:00 pm due to the Replay simulcast of Q&A at 9.30 pm. With Steve Cannane or Julia Baird Tue-Fri The World is broadcast on ABC News 24 and on Australia Network. Jim Middleton 10pm-11pm and Zoe Daniel bring you the day’s national and international news, with reports from the ABC’s network of reporters and international correspondents. The World The World offers a forum for extended news stories, With Jim Middleton interviews and insights from around the and Zoe Daniel world. Beverley O’Connor presents on Friday nights with Jim Middleton. The program is broadcast in a half-hour format at 10:30pm on Monday nights Mon-Fri following Q&A. 11pm-11.30pm The latest ABC News. Follow the top stories of the day with comprehensive ABC News analysis and original reporting from ABC reporters. Mon-Fri 11.30pm-12am The ABC’s flagship daily television current 7.30 affairs program, 7.30, provides the best analysis of national and international Replay events from an Australian perspective. Presented by Sarah Ferguson. Mon-Thu 12am-12.30am The latest ABC News. Follow the top stories of the day with comprehensive analysis and original reporting from ABC News ABC reporters. Mon-Fri One Plus One is the ABC’s acclaimed interview program. Presented by Jane Hutcheon, the half-hour show features an in-depth conversation each week with a newsmaker from Australia or One Plus One overseas. Join sports stars, celebrities, With Jane Hutcheon philosophers and politicians as they sit down for revealing and often surprising chats with Jane Hutcheon. One Plus One premieres on Friday at 8:30pm on ABC 8.30pm Fri News 24, and Wednesday 11:30am on ABC1. You can also catch up on iview. ABC News 24’s audience has increased each year since its launch in 2010. In 2013, ABC News 24 reached an average of 3.6 million viewers each week across metro and regional markets, up 9% compared to 2012 (3.3 million). This year, ABC News 24’s average reach is 3.7 million viewers each week. Top rating programs for the channel in 2013 included coverage of the Labor Leadership Crisis, Australia Votes Election Night and the Fleet Review Spectacular. Across both the week leading up to the 2013 Federal Election, and the week of the Labor leadership change, ABC News 24 reached 4.8 million viewers – the highest ever weekly reach for the channel. Source: OzTAM & RegionalTAM Consolidated data.
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