Australian Broadcasting Corporation

state-funded independent national public broadcaster of Australia
Organization television_network Q781365
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Summary

Australian Broadcasting Corporation is a television network[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of television network entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19,856 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union[3], International Federation of Television Archives[4]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: New South Wales[5]
  • Country: Australia[6]
  • Instance of: statutory corporation[7], radio network[8], information[9], public broadcaster[10], organization[11]
  • Founder: Lyons Government[12]
  • Owned by: Australian Government[13]
  • Headquarters location: Sydney[14]
  • Has organizational division: ABC News[15], ABC Television[16], ABC Classics[17]
  • Child organization or unit: ABC Local Radio[18]
  • Commons category: Australian Broadcasting Corporation[19]
  • Industry: broadcasting[20], journalism[21], media industry[22]
  • Archives at: ABC Archives[23]
  • Chairperson: Ita Buttrose[24]
  • Inception: July 1, 1932[25], July 1, 1983[26]
  • Coordinate location: -33.8824, 151.20189[27]
  • Official website: https://www.abc.net.au/[28]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation[29]
  • Director / manager: David Anderson[30]
  • Employees: 3730[31]
  • Described by source: Open GLAM Survey[32]
  • Official name: Australian Broadcasting Corporation[33]
  • Legal form: statutory corporation[34]
  • Commons Institution page: Australian Broadcasting Corporation[35]
  • Short name: ABC[36]
  • Owner of: ABC Classic[37], ABC[38], ABC Australia[39], ABC Radio Darwin[40], ABC Riverland[41], ABC Ballarat[42], ABC Radio Newcastle[43], ABC Radio Brisbane[44], ABC Radio Canberra[45], ABC Radio Sydney[46], ABC Radio Perth[47], ABC Alice Springs[48], ABC Radio Adelaide[49], ABC Sunshine Coast[50]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Holding[51]

  • Country: AU[52]

  • Began / founded: 1932-07-01[53]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 194dce10-13b7-4c00-b9ba-d71ae6bdd68c[54]

Why It Matters

Australian Broadcasting Corporation has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[55] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[56]

It is credited with the discovery of Panama Papers[57], an information leak[58], in Panama[59]. Works attributed to it include ABC Online[60], a website[61], in Australia[62], founded in 1995[63], headquartered in Hobart[64] and Pool[65], a website[66], in Australia[67], founded in 2008[68].

FAQs

What did Australian Broadcasting Corporation discover?

Australian Broadcasting Corporation is credited as discoverer of Panama Papers[57].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [51] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [52] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [53] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [54] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [57] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [65] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [58] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [61] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [62] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [63] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [64] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  9. [68] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [55] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [56] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Numberguy6 · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Director / manager → David Anderson
    Instance of → television network, statutory corporation, radio network +3
    Legal form → statutory corporation
    Owner of → ABC Classic, ABC, ABC Australia +72
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