Identify the currently airing programme
Open the intended ABC live stream and confirm the programme title. ABC’s help identifies Stream From Start for ABC TV, ABC NEWS, ABC Kids and ABC Family live streams on its listed smart-TV, Apple TV and web-browser routes. Check the controls on the route you are actually using.
For example, joining a current-affairs programme after its introduction is a live-restart question. Finding last week’s edition is an archive question. Keep those requests separate so a search result for an older episode is not mistaken for the opening of the programme currently on air.
Choose the restart control deliberately
ABC describes highlighting the selected programme and choosing Stream From Start beneath its title. After restarting, check the programme identity and the opening sequence. You are following a delayed position within a live viewing route, so household viewers watching the live edge may now be ahead of you.
If discussing a news development or live event with another viewer, tell them that you restarted. Avoid using their wall-clock description as your playback position. Note an on-screen segment or your own elapsed position when you need to return to a passage during the same session.
Use a later episode page for a different task
A later on-demand listing, if published, is a separate catalogue item and should be checked on its own page. Stream From Start does not establish when that item will appear, how long it will remain available or whether it has exactly the same presentation. Do not infer an unlimited recording facility from a restart button.
If the control is absent, record the exact app or browser and live channel rather than resetting unrelated account settings. ABC’s help names particular routes; it does not describe every possible screen-sharing or third-party player route. For support, state whether you need the start of the current broadcast or an earlier dated episode, since those goals require different evidence and viewing paths.