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The announcement of 7mate means it’s time to update our listing of digital channels and their LCN’s (actual channel numbers on a digital tuner).

Here is the list of digital channels updated as at August 19, 2010. All channels in SD (standard definition), unless other wise stated.

ABC
ABC1 - 2 & 21
ABC2 - 22
ABC3 - 23
ABC News 24 - 24 (HD Channel)
ABC HD channel 20 phased out to make way for ABC News 24 on channel 24.

SBS
SBS ONE - 3 & 31
SBS TWO - 32
SBS ONE HD - 30 (HD Channel, simulcast of SBS ONE)
SBS also transmits channels 33 and 34 which are clones of SBS ONE

Seven
Seven - 7 & 71
7TWO - 72
7mate - 73 (HD Channel from September 25).
7HD channel 70 will be phased out prior to the launch of 7mate
Currently 73 is a clone of Seven, which will become 7mate on Sept 25.

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It’s amazing to think that this time last year - just 12 months ago - multi channelling in Australia was limited to just ABC2, SBS NEWS and part time HD break aways from Seven, Nine and Ten. The SBS NEWS channel essentially played nothing more than non stop foreign news bulletins - the same news shown now on SBS ONE and TWO. The number of free to air channels was 7 full time and 3 part time channels.

In the last 12 months, we have seen Ten launch ONE HD, SBS switch from SBS NEWS to SBS TWO, Nine launch GO - the most successful multi-channel to date, and Seven launch 7TWO. In December, the ABC launched their 3rd channel ABC3. The channel count now is 11 full time channels.