Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's government-funded national broadcaster, which has broadcast Sesame Street more or less continually since 1971 twice-daily in a weekday timeslot on its main television network. The ABC also periodically broadcasts Elmo's World, Global Grover, The Furchester Hotel, Play with Me Sesame and Elmo the Musical, and has exclusive Australian broadcast rights for most Sesame Workshop productions, excluding the Australian version of Open Sesame.
The ABC first screened Sesame Street at 8am on Monday 4 January 1971, having acquired the rights in August the previous year.https://anguskidman.show/2023/11/14/sesame-street-first-australian-broadcast/
In addition to Sesame Street, the ABC has also screened The Secret Life of Toys, The Hoobs, Mopatop's Shop, Bear in the Big Blue House, Fraggle Rock and Jim Henson Presents the World of Puppetry, as well as the movie Labyrinth. Many of the programs produced by Sesame Workshop are aired on its secondary television network ABC2; much in the same style as BBC One, BBC Two etc.
The ABC also co-produced and aired the Henson Company puppet series Bambaloo (2003) and Five Minutes More (2006).
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