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Following this, on
March 16,
1986, SBS TV commenced transmission in
Perth and
Hobart.
Darwin was the last capital city to receive the channel, with a local signal launched on
20 May 1994.
Although,
SBS Television commenced transmissions as a non-commercial television network, as of 1991, it began accepting and broadcasting television advertisements (a controversial move at the time) shown
between programs.
2000s
The year 2001 saw the introduction of
digital terrestrial television in Australia with transmissions available to most of
SBS Television's coverage area on
1 January 2001, this was soon followed by the gradual introduction of
widescreen programming.
The hosts of
The Movie Show,
David Stratton and
Margaret Pomeranz, defected to the
ABC in April 2004 to host a new program called
At the Movies.
The Movie Show continued with four new hosts, which included
Megan Spencer,
Jaimie Leonarder,
Fenella Kernebone and Marc Fennell. The final episode of
The Movie Show aired in June 2006, after the show was axed. In 2007,
The Movie Show returned with a new interactive ten-minute format, presented by
Lisa Hensley and Michael Adams.
On
1 June 2006, the SBS managing director
Shaun Brown announced the corporation's desire to initiate in-show commercial breaks. He claimed that the move would raise $10 million in the first year, as he believes that SBS's current strategy of showing ads between programs "is unpopular with viewers". "On average we lose more than half our audience during these breaks - this is 30 per cent more than other broadcasters", claimed Brown upon announcing the new move.
SBS's commercial breaks remained at their existing statutory limit of five minutes per hour, as opposed to the fifteen minutes per hour permitted on Australia's fully commercial stations. An individual break lasted between one and two minutes. A related change was the launch of a one-hour edition of
World News Australia, replacing the half-hour
World News Australia and
World Sport programs. In-show advertising commenced on
October 9,
2006 during the broadcast of
MythBusters.
On
14 December 2006, the
Special Broadcasting Service announced its intention to change to
720p as its
high-definition transmission standard for SBS HD. SBS currently upconverts it's schedule to the
576p standard.
Programming
SBS TV is required by charter to meet certain programming obligations. 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 TV's drama line-up consists almost entirely of imported content, mostly programs produced in
languages other than English, including
Inspector Rex,
Unit One,
Shameless and
Big Love. Recent locally-produced programs have included
Kick.
Comedy on SBS TV is primarily locally-produced but also includes foreign series such as
South Park,
Nighty Night and
Queer as Folk. The channel presents flagship comedy shows, which include
Pizza,
Newstopia,
Life Support,
John Safran, in addition to
reality television series,
Nerds FC. As well as this,
anime is broadcast, with programs including
Neon Genesis Evangelion,
Samurai Champloo and the
Studio Ghibli movies, as well as several
cult movies.
Dadı, the Turkish version of the American sitcom
The Nanny is shown on SBS TV, as are numerous
sitcoms,
soap operas, drama series and movies in
languages other than English, including
Mexican and
Brazilian telenovelas and
Bollywood movies. Such programming is
subtitled in English.
The remainder of SBS TV's schedule consists of lifestyle, music, game and talk shows. These include
Iron Chef,
RocKwiz,
The Movie Show,
MythBusters,
Top Gear,
Global Village, the
Eurovision Song Contest. Late at night, when there's no scheduled programming, SBS usually broadcasts a weatherwatch program which shows a weather map of
Australia. In late 2005, the program was updated to feature weather information from cities around the world, along with a short clip of selected cities.
News & 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
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.
It also broadcasts foreign language news on its second digital channel, the
SBS World News Channel, sometimes also used to provide additional information, highlights, and statistics for programmes shown on the main channel, such as the
FIFA World Cup.
Sport
SBS Sport currently holds the broadcast rights to a range of sports, which are broadcast on SBS TV, these primarily include the
FIFA World Cup,
Tour de France, the
World Superbikes, the
World Rally Championship,
The Ashes, the
Olympic Games,
UEFA Champions League,
UEFA Cup,
FIFA World Cup,
FA Cup, and the
UEFA European Football Championship. SBS also produces and broadcasts a range of sport related programming including
The World Game and the
UEFA Champions League Magazine. Previously, the channel has broadcast other sporting events including the
2004 Summer Olympics, the
2005 Ashes series and the
National Football League's
Super Bowl.
The telecast of the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing will be shared by both the
Seven Network and SBS TV, with the
Seven Network holding exclusive
Australian free-to-air,
pay television,
online and
mobile telephony broadcast rights. SBS TV will provide complementary coverage focused on long-form events such as
football,
road cycling,
volleyball, and
table tennis. In contrast, Seven will broadcast the opening and closing ceremonies and mainstream sport's including
swimming,
athletics,
rowing,
cycling and
gymnastics.
Availability
SBS TV is available on all of
SBS Television's television transmitters in
Analogue,
SD Digital, and
576p ED Digital. The channel only differs from each state during major sporting events, where scheduling times are altered. On
14 December 2006, the
Special Broadcasting Service announced its intention to change to
720p as its
high-definition transmission standard.
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