ABC launches its new Asia-Pacific television service, Australia Television International (ATVI) with a one-hour special, A Network Begins, hosted by Karina Kelly. ATVI was officially opened by Prime Minister Paul Keating.

Later, ABC begins nightly broadcast of Australia Television International News, presented from ABC’s Darwin studios.

ATVI initially broadcast via satellite to fifteen countries in South-East Asia.

Source: TV Week, 13 February 1993

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS28
6AM	6.30am First Edition	6am ALF Tales 6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection. Includes Tom And Jerry, The Flintstones, Top Cat, Kissyfur	6am Entertainment Tonight 6.30 ITN World News 6.55 Business Today	6am Ten Eyewitness News
7AM	7.30 Open Learning		7am Today	7am The Big Breakfast
8AM	8am The Smoggies 8.30 Sesame Street			8.30 Mulligrubs
9AM	9.30 Play School	9am The Book Place 9.30 Sons And Daughters	9am Here’s Humphrey 9.30 Ernie And Denise. Ernie Sigley, Denise Drysdale	9am Good Morning Australia. Bert Newton
10AM	10am Puddle Lane 10.15 Rod Jane And Freddy 10.30 Turn On To T-Bag 10.50 Grimms’ Fairy Tales	10am Aerobics Oz Style 10.30 News	10.30 News
11AM	11am Fox Tales 11.25 Roobarb 11.30 Wild And Crazy Kids 11.55 Rosie’s Walk	11am Eleven AM	11am What’s Cooking 11.30 Entertainment Tonight	11am Sally Jessy Raphael
12PM	12pm The World At Noon 12.30 The Italians	12pm Movie: The Honey Pot. 1967 [IMDB]	12pm Midday With Ray Martin	12pm Santa Barbara
1PM	1pm National Press Club Luncheon		1.30 Days Of Our Lives	1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 Donahue
2PM	2pm True Stories: The Ape Trade		2.30 The Young And The Restless	2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3PM	3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends	3pm The Beverly Hillbillies 3.30 My Three Sons (B&W)	3.30 Katts And Dog	3.30 General Hospital	3.45pm Novosti (Russia)
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Babar 4.55 Spider	4pm Ducktales 4.30 Now You See It	4pm Bewitched 4.30 The Girl From Tomorrow	4pm The Wonder Years 4.30 Kelly	4.15 TV Ed 4.45 English At Work
5PM	5pm The Afternoon Show. Michael Tunn. Includes Widget, Degrassi Junior High	5pm Family Feud 5.30 Wheel Of Fortune	5pm Keynotes 5.30 Happy Days	5pm Ten Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jo Pearson	5.15 Little Missy (Brazil) 5.50 For Your Information
6PM	6pm Big Square Eye 6.30 Yes Prime Minister	6pm Seven Nightly News. Jennifer Keyte 6.30 Real Life. Stan Grant	6pm National Nine News. Brian Naylor 6.30 A Current Affair	6pm Jeopardy. Tony Barber 6.30 Neighbours	6pm Sports Special 6.30 World News. Mary Kostakidis
7PM	7pm ABC News. Ian Henderson 7.30 The 7.30 Report	7pm Home And Away 7.30 Hey Dad!	7pm Sale Of The Century 7.29 Keno 7.30 Jake And The Fatman	7pm Hinch 7.30 E Street	7pm Say Aah (Netherlands) 7.30 The Movie Show. David Stratton, Margaret Pomeranz
8PM	8pm Lifesense 8.30 Special: Funny Business: Visual Comedy — A Lecture By Rowan Atkinson	8pm Newlyweds 8.30 Football: AFL. Foster’s Cup. Collingwood v Melbourne. Live from Waverley Park, Melbourne	8.30 Movie: The Fabulous Baker Boys. 1989 [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: Die Hard 2. 1991 [IMDB]	8pm Face The Press. Helen Vatsikopoulos 8.30 Jean Galmot, Adventurer (France)
9PM	9.30 Special: A Network Begins. Karina Kelly
10PM	10.30 Lateline. Includes ABC News Late Edition		10.50 Nightline With Jim Waley		10pm AIDS — A Priest’s Testament 10.55 Movie: Cabbie In New York. 1987 (Italy) [IMDB]
11PM	11.05 A Sense Of Guilt 11.55 Ripping Yarns	11pm Tonight Live ’93	11.20 The Avengers	11.05 Ten Eyewitness News. Anne Fulwood 11.35 COPS
12AM	12.30am Australia Television International News PREMIERE	12am Minder	12.20am Night Court 12.50 Rugby League: Challenge Cup. Newcastle v Canberra. Eastern Suburbs v St George	12.05am World Of Difference	12.40am Close
1AM	1.30 The Bill	1.05 Today (NBC)		1.05 Movie: The Winds Of Autumn. 1975 [IMDB]
2AM	2.20 Close	2.35 Detectives
3AM		3.05 Movie: China 9 Liberty 37. 1978 [IMDB]		3am The Street
4AM				4am Prisoner
5AM		5am Aboriginal Australia 5.05 The Carol Burnett Show (Continues to 6am)	5am Secrets And Mysteries 5.30 The Sullivans (Continues to 6am)	5am The New Animal World 5.30 Starting From Scratch (Continues to 6am)