- A vital Emergency Broadcasting service that at times saves people's property and even their lives. So far this financial year the ABC’s EB service has covered 460 emergency events. In one week this month we broadcast 76.5 hours of dedicated emergency radio programming just on the north Queensland floods
- Australia’s most trusted news service on TV, radio and online, including continuous 24-hour news on ABC NEWS TV channel, NewsRadio the ABC NEWS web and app
- Metro and regional news services operating from 67 locations across the country (10 in capital cities, 56 regional locations and one outer-suburban location). An estimated 1.4 million regional Australians listen to ABC Local Radio every week
- International bureaus in 10 locations as well as additional dedicated Pacific reporters
- High quality, locally made and freely available Australian broadcast and streamed drama and entertainment. This month the ABC won 13 AACTA awards for screen excellence
- Australia’s most-watched kids content, specialist educational content that is aligned to the curriculum and dedicated news content for young people from Behind The News and BTN High
- International services that make ABC storytelling available on TV, radio and online worldwide, with a focus on our region. The ABC Australia TV service has a monthly viewership across the Asia-Pacific of at least 10.5 million people and is carried by more than 100 broadcast partners
- In the last decade, the ABC’s operating revenue from government has fallen by 13.7% in real terms – an annual reduction of $150 million.
- Funding the ABC represents a tiny proportion of the federal government budget — and it has been getting smaller. Just this century the ABC has declined from an overall share of Commonwealth outlays of 0.31% in 2000-01 to just 0.13% in today's outlays.
- Currently, Australia invests around 40% less per person in public broadcasting than the average for a comparable set of 20 OECD democracies.
- The ABC Network was the No 1 ranked television broadcaster in 2023–24 with a reach of 36.4%, or 6.6 million people, across the five-city metro population.
- In 2023–24, ABC News and Current Affairs on ABC TV and ABC News channel reached 5.2 million average weekly metro and regional viewers.
- ABC NEWS is Australia’s No 2 digital news publisher. The ABC’s December audience was 11.75 million people with an average read time of 31 minutes per person.
- ABC News Top Stories is Australia’s No 1 news podcast and the ABC was overall the No 3 most listened to publisher in the Triton Podcast Ranker. The ABC features more titles in the Top 200 than any other publisher.
- ABC NEWS is the No 1 Australian news provider across all social media by followers. The ABC is currently No 1 on Facebook and Instagram and No 3 on TikTok and YouTube. ABC Instagram surpassed 1 million followers last year and the YouTube ABC NEWS In-depth channel is approaching 2 million subscribers.
- ABC iview was the number one ranked BVOD service in 2023-24 based on on-demand minutes, with a 34% share of on-demand minutes across the year.
- ABC Radio reached an estimated 4.77 million people each week in the five capital cities.
- The ABC is the No 1 digital live streaming audio network, with a 25.6% share of live radio streaming.
- ABC YouTube channels averaged 60 million monthly views.
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