SBS (Australian TV channel)
History | |
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Launched | 24 October 1980 |
Former names | SBS Ethnic Television (1979) Experimental Multicultural Television - MTV2 (1980) Channel 0/28 (1980–1983) Network 0–28 (1983–1985) SBS TV (1985–2009) SBS ONE (1 June 2009 – 4 July 2015) |
Links | |
Website | sbs.com.au |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
STN Sydney (DVB-T) | 1108 @ 7 (184.5 MHz) |
AGV Melbourne (DVB-T) | 1124 @ 7 (184.5 MHz) |
VTQ Brisbane/Gold Coast (DVB-T) | 1140 @ 7 (184.5 MHz) |
ATS Adelaide (DVB-T) | 1156 @ 7 (184.5 MHz) |
WTW Perth/Mandurah (DVB-T) | 1172 @ 7 (184.5 MHz) |
DVB-T | 7 |
Freeview SBS (virtual) | 3 |
Freeview SBS HD (virtual) | 30 |
SBS is a multicultural
History
Origins
SBS began test transmissions in April 1979 as SBS Ethnic Television when it showed various foreign language programs on ABV-2 Melbourne and ABN-2 Sydney on Sunday mornings. Full-time transmission began at 6.30 pm on 24 October 1980 (United Nations Day) as Channel 0/28. At the time, SBS was broadcasting on UHF Channel 28 and VHF Channel 0. Bruce Gyngell, who introduced television to Australia back in 1956, was given the task of introducing the first batch of programs on the new station.[2] The first program shown was a documentary on multiculturalism entitled Who Are We? which was hosted, produced and directed by well-known Australian journalist Peter Luck.
When transmission began for the night, the opening announcement would be as follows with "
1980s to the 1990s
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On 14 October 1983, the service expanded into
On 18 February 1985, the station changed its name to SBS and began daytime transmissions.
Although
2000s
In 2001,
The hosts of
On 1 June 2009, SBS TV was renamed SBS One to coincide with the launch of its new sister channel
2010s
As of 10 December 2013, SBS ceased analogue television broadcasts and is now only available through digital TV or digital set-top box.
On 27 March 2014, SBS and SBS Viceland ended broadcasting Weatherwatch Overnight, an overnight filler program providing national and international weather information with live video feeds of various cities around the world provided by EarthTV, SBS and SBS Viceland is now broadcast 24 hours a day 7 days a week. On 4 July 2015, SBS ONE changed its name back to SBS TV.[13]
SBS launched a new channel focusing on both local and international food programming on 17 November 2015. The channel, called SBS Food (formerly Food Network due to the partnership with Discovery Inc.[14]), is available on free to air channel 33.[15]
On 15 November 2016, SBS rebranded their sister station SBS 2 to SBS Viceland with content from US-Canadian broadcaster Vice Media after signing a deal with Vice Media on 23 June 2016.[16][17]
On 1 July 2019, SBS World Movies started transmission on Channel 32, replacing the Standard Definition broadcast of Viceland, as Viceland moved to Channel 31 in HD, World Movies became the third multichannel, alongside SBS, Viceland and SBS Food.
2020s
On 23 May 2022, SBS has launched their own local news in both
Leading up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, SBS, spent $20 million in order to acquire the exclusive rights to broadcast the competition.[19]
Programming
SBS is required by charter to meet certain programming obligations.[20] Although it has a strong focus on international news and current affairs, it also presents documentaries and educational programs, drama, comedy, films and sport. SBS devotes a significant part of its morning television schedule to news bulletins in languages other than English[21] as well as showing many subtitled, foreign-language films. Its own news and current affairs aim to have a higher concentration on international affairs than the ABC or the commercial networks. It also shows many documentaries and current-affairs programs, while its sports coverage has a strong focus on international sports.
SBS's drama line-up mostly consists of imported content. International productions shown include
Comedy on SBS has included locally produced shows (
The remainder of SBS's schedule consists of English-language lifestyle, music, game and talk shows. These include
Since the late 1980s, SBS has screened the 1960s German-made comedy sketch Dinner for One every New Year's Eve, emulating an annual European TV tradition.
Between 1989 and 2006, the narrator for SBS was Robbie McGregor. The current narrator is Lani John Tupu.
News and current affairs
SBS has a range of news and current affairs programming, including its nightly, national, news service SBS World News, investigative programme Dateline, discussion forum Insight, indigenous affairs program Living Black, in addition to its morning & afternoon World Watch timeslot, featuring bulletins in languages other than English. Until early 2007, Toyota World Sport was shown on weeknights until it was axed to accommodate the relaunched, one-hour World News Australia (which is now SBS World News) and World Watch.
It also broadcasts foreign language news on its second digital channel SBS Viceland, sometimes it provides additional information, highlights, and statistics for programmes shown on SBS, such as the FIFA World Cup, The Ashes, Olympic Games, and the Australian Football League Grand Final.
SBS, along with its sister channel Viceland, are still airing English news bulletins from international news channels under the current World Watch block following the launch of SBS WorldWatch multilingual channel.[18]
Sport
SBS Sport currently holds the broadcast rights to a range of sports, which are broadcast on SBS, SBS Viceland and SBS On Demand. They have held the rights to many sporting events over the years, which have included the
The telecast of the
Funding
Approximately 80% of SBS' funding comes from the
Availability
SBS is available on all of
In 2010 SBS commenced trial broadcasts of the
SBS HD
The SBS HD multichannel was launched on 14 December 2006. It broadcasts identical programming to SBS, but in
On 8 April 2017, alongside the launch of
SBS On Demand
SBS On Demand is a
SBS On Demand is available on the web and via apps for mobile devices, smart TVs and set-top boxes.[29]
Logo and identity history
The first SBS logo was a gradiented blue and white globe surrounded by a gradiented blue and white ring.
A new SBS logo was launched in March 1993, featuring five blue curved splices, described as the "Mercator" logo (named as the shapes look like a mercator globe in 2D), with the letters SBS in white on top.[7] The idents in 1995–2003 usually show the Mercator logo without the letters SBS. The five splices represented the continents of the world and the angle represented the tilt of the Earth's axis.
The new logo and a major revamp was launched on 7 May 2008, reducing the number of splices into four, and shifting the perspective and angle so that each splice is larger than the last.[30] The logo was modified on 1 June 2009 to coincide with the renaming of the channel to "SBS ONE".
On 4 July 2015 SBS launched a modified version of its 2008 logo when its main channel changed its name back to 'SBS TV'. The "SBS ONE" name is still used on electronic program guides.
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March 1993 – 7 May 2008
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7 May 2008 – 31 May 2009
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1 June 2009 – 3 July 2015
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4 July 2015 – 7 February 2019
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8 February 2019 – present
Identity history
- 29 April – 22 July 1979: This is SBS, Ethnic Television. (used for SBS TV's test transmissions)
- February – May 1980: A Whole New Look at Television.
- 24 October 1980 – 14 October 1983: Channel 0 – A Whole World of People/Entertainment.
- January 1982: Channel 0/28, Celebrating Australia Week 1982.
- 14 October 1983 – 18 February 1985: Network 0–28 – Bringing the World Back Home.
- 18 February 1985 – 1986: We're SBS – Bringing the World Back Home.
- 1986–1988: Discover the Difference.
- 1989–1996: Bringing the World Back Home.
- 1998–2004: Your world is an amazing place
- 2005–2006: Nobody sees the world like SBS
- 2006–2008: There's more to Summer on SBS.
- 7 May 2008 – 27 October 2011: Six Billion Stories and Counting.
- 28 October 2011 – 13 June 2014: Seven Billion Stories and Counting.
- 14 June 2014 – 3 July 2015: Join In
- 8 February 2019 – present: A World of Difference
See also
References
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- ^ Ward, Miranda (4 October 2016). "NEWS: SBS and Vice announce launch date for TV channel SBS Viceland". Mumbrella. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ Meade, Amanda (4 October 2016). "SBS Viceland: youth channel created in partnership with Vice to replace SBS 2". The Guardian. Sydney. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ a b SBS News (23 May 2022). "SBS WorldWatch". SBS Corporate. Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ Miranda, Ward (14 June 2022). "Socceroos qualifying for the World Cup is a big win for SBS". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
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- ^ English, Laura (18 September 2020). "SBS Cancels 'South Park' After 23 Years". musicfeeds. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ Perry, Kevin (17 September 2020). "SBS says goodbye to classic comedy SOUTH PARK". tvblackbox.com.au. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ "Special Broadcasting Service (SBS): Operations and funding". Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
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External links
- Official website
- SBS on Facebook
- SBS on Instagram