2002 in Australian digital TV: ABC

Before on-demand streaming, before TiVo knew what you wanted, and before multichannels were allowed to show anything and high definition went mainstream …
The ABC's reel has aged the best with least effort, focussing on showcasing content via clips. ABC had the advantage of two part-time almost-general entertainment channels to promote - ABC Kids and ABC FlyTV - being exclusively available on digital broadcast. This was the final era of using film or interlaced video for TV drama, after the UK and Australia transitioned to widescreen but before high definition production became the minimum.
Converted from 576i50, including 576pSF content, some originated on film or 1080p24/25

[@whophd]

This version of ABC Kids and "older kids" TV had different audience targets than the modern channels on ABC2 and ABC3. FlyTV had a small but significant older focus to teenagers, versus the ABC ME demographic of pre-teens. The changes were in parallel with the same shift in British television, where some of the content came from. (This is when "Grange Hill" tried to relaunch itself despite decades of success, and reset the tone to a younger audience, shortly before being cancelled).

[@ThisIsARubbishName]

Aha! I was wondering why I had the Hamilton Mattress theme in my head and I'd only seen clips of it as a little tacker. From promos! That's where I remember it from - one of the terrestrial ads. So cool!

[@jsakajj]

The list of shows used in the ABC Kids promo: Albie (Cosgrove Hall Films) Busy Buses (tv4c) Don’t Eat the Neighbours (YTV/Sextant Entertainment Group/Granada Kids) Hamilton Mattress (Harvest Films) The Hoobs (Jim Henson/Decode/Channel 4) Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles! (ABC) Merlin the Magical Puppy (Little Entertainment Company) Round the Twist (ACTF) Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop) and Tracey McBean (Southern Star/Egmont Imagination) Obviously, the Hamilton Mattress theme song also plays through the promo

[@diannadolly]

Thank you

[@toohawttoohandle]

Tracey McBean was such an underrated show.

[@jsakajj]

IKR! It’s also unpopular!

[@danielcelano5570]

It sure would be nice if one of the Australians had pre-2013 ABC Kids recordings of The Wiggles, like this one at 1:00.

[@tylerbushell2333]

Best ABC kids ever!

[@XxAlienFaePrincexX]

What i grew up when i was a kid I was 6 years old in 2002

[@RobotsSharkTaleAndNIMH2Fan2005]

0:40 0:50 Busy buses

[@Lostmusicvideos]

Do you have the Qarashi clip or any other footage from Popsui at all?

[@whophd]

@@Lostmusicvideos It wasn't a show I recorded, but I might have the electronic press kit from FlyTV somewhere.

[@Lostmusicvideos]

@@whophd that would be awesome