A-PAC
| A-PAC | |
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| Launched | 20 January 2009 |
| Owned by | Foxtel Networks |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV 16:9) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Slogan | Australia's Public Affairs Network |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Replaced | Sky News Election Channel |
| Replaced by | Sky News Election Channel (linear channel; 1 May 2016-23 January 2017) |
| Sister channel(s) |
Sky News Australia Sky News Business Channel Sky News Weather Channel |
| Website | a-pac.tv |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| Foxtel | Channel 648 |
| Cable | |
| Foxtel | Channel 648 |
| Optus TV | Channel 648 |
| Streaming media | |
| Available free to all internet users | http://www.a-pac.tv/ |
A-PAC (/ˈeɪpæk/ AY-pak; Australian Public Affairs Channel) is an Australian 24-hour cable and satellite news channel available on Foxtel and Austar platforms. On 15 November 2009, A-PAC's channel location for Foxtel changed from Channel 607 to Channel 648.
From 1 May 2016, the service's linear channel was replaced by Sky News Election Channel, resulting in the service only being available on the Sky News Multiview service and online. Although the service was originally planned to relaunch as a linear channel on 30 November 2016, this was later postponed, and ultimately the linear channel did not return until 24 January 2017. The relaunch did, however, see A-PAC obtain Sky News Election Channel's HD feed, seeing the channel available in high definition for the first time.
A-PAC is a public affairs television network in Australia (initially launched as "A-SPAN"). The network is funded by Pay TV company Foxtel and is produced by Sky News. The channel officially launched on the morning of 20 January 2009 (Australian time), just in time to cover the inauguration of US President Obama using a feed from U.S. cable channel, C-SPAN. It is similarly named to the comparable CPAC channel.
The channel is available on Australian subscription television services and online. It claims to work with free-to-air television organisations, but itself is not available as a free-to-air channel. The channel format is modelled on the American public affairs network C-SPAN. A-PAC content features live broadcasts from Australia's Parliament House in Canberra (including sittings of the House of Representatives, the Senate, parliamentary Committee meetings and political press conferences), the parliaments of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland as well as sittings of the United States Congress, live broadcasts of speeches from the Australian National Press Club and a program which provides coverage of the New Zealand and British parliaments. Material from the United Nations and the European Parliament will also be carried.
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