IceTV now has listings for ‘ABC News 24′ available.

July 21st, 2010

The ABC have announced they will officially launch their new 24 hour news channel, ‘ABC News 24′, at 7:30pm tomorrow night (Thursday, July 22nd).

IceTV is pleased to announce that we have updated our Interactive TV Guide, iPhone app and mini mobile site, to now include detailed program listings for this new and exciting channel.

According to the ABC website, ABC News 24 will feature “continuous and commercial-free coverage of major breaking stories in Australia and around the world”.

ABC News 24 will include a mixture of new programs “developed specifically for the channel, focusing on world news, national politics and business”, including ‘Afternoon Live’ at 3pm, ‘The Drum’ at 6pm and ‘The World’ at 9pm.

To find out more about these new programs, please visit the ‘New Shows’ section within IceTV’s Interactive TV Guide.

If you’re an IceTV member with a compatible TV Recorder at home and you see something you like, just click ‘record’.

The new channel will also include some of the ABC’s staples, such as “Lateline, The 7.30 Report and Four Corners.”

As previously reported, ABC News 24 will replace ABC HD and will be available on channel 24 across all regions.

To ensure you get access to the new channel and assuming you haven’t already done so, we recommend that you perform a ‘channel rescan’ on your digital TV recorder at home in time for tomorrow’s launch.

If you need instructions or are unsure how to do this for your TV Recorder at home, please read the Setup Guide for your TV Recorder. If you come across any technical problems whilst trying to do this, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Regards,

IceTV

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