Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Managing Director David Anderson has announced the ABC’s return to the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s (ABU) international video news exchange, Asiavision.
Developed by the ABU’s News division, Asiavision (AVN) is a member-funded, cloud-based platform where members share breaking news and stories on business, the environment, health, sport, technology and culture. AVN’s 31 members can access over 16,000 video stories each year for distribution on their television and digital platforms.
ABC International Head Claire M. Gorman said: “The ABC is excited to be rejoining Asiavision. Sharing the ABC’s high-quality news and current affairs vision will mean that more audiences across the Indo-Pacific will have access to news events in Australia. It will enable us to share further our coverage of world affairs which is fed by our Pacific Journalism Network and the ABC’s foreign correspondents based in PNG, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, India, Japan and further across the globe. This will build on the ABC’s ability to fulfill our Charter remit to transmit to countries outside Australia.”
ABU Secretary General Ahmed Nadeem said: “The return of the ABC to AVN is an important development for the ABU and all AVN members. It makes Asiavision stronger and broadens the range of content available to AVN members.”
ABU Director of News Deborah Steele said: “We are delighted our members will have access to the ABC’s coverage and that we can share this with 30 other broadcasters across the Asia Pacific region, from Fiji to Türkiye.”
In February 2024, the ABU celebrated 40 years since AVN’s establishment and in 2023, launched an updated version of the platform called Asia-Pacific View (APV), improving its online content sharing and news exchange capabilities.
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About the ABU
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union is a professional association of media organisations and industry partners. It was founded in 1964 and the ABC was a founding member. Today the ABU has 240 members from Kiribati to Türkiye. Its primary role is to support media development through the core activities of training and capacity building, advocacy, and information and content exchanges, including the Asiavision video news exchange. The ABU is based in Kuala Lumpur. More information is available at www.abu.org.my.
About ABC International Services
Since 1939, the ABC has been broadcasting to audiences overseas. The International division reaches an estimated 14,224,065 unique monthly overseas audiences through owned and operated platforms including ABC Australia, ABC Radio Australia and ABC websites and apps including ABC Pacific and ABC Asia. The ABC’s international audiences come from all corners of the globe. ABC Australia, the ABC’s international television service available in 37 markets throughout Asia and the Pacific, has a monthly viewership of at least 3,905,050. ABC Radio Australia, the ABC’s international radio service available via FM in the Pacific and Timor Leste, has a monthly listenership of at least 321,225. Outside Australia, ABC websites and apps have an average global monthly usership of 9,997,790 which includes approximately 7,505,085 users across the Americas, Europe and Africa and 1,865,655 users in Asia.
*Figures based on the ABC 2022-23 Annual Report
