SBS
World News Australia draws its news material from the widest range of
international sources of any broadcaster in Australia. Daily television
news feeds are received from: Associated Press Television News (AP
Television News), the BBC, CNN, Reuters and the ABC network in the
United States. We also subscribe to news wire services from Australian
Associated Press (AAP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
An
important additional source of international news is SBS's exclusive
access to the 21 foreign-language news programs that make up the
network's WorldWatch service.
Are SBS's news and current affairs services captioned for the deaf and hearing impaired?
Yes.
Captioning of SBS World News - the first prime-time news bulletin to be
captioned - began 24 March 1997. The service is available to viewers
with a Teletext receiver or digital set top box, and helps achieve our
mission to deliver high-quality, independent, culturally relevant
Australian media to all Australians. It is also a requirement under the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992 that all news and current affairs
programs (other than non-English language programs) be captioned for
access by people who are deaf or hearing impaired.
Why don't you have bureaus in every capital city?
SBS
does not have the resources to establish bureaus in each capital city.
However SBS News and Current Affairs is developing multi-skilled
journalists in a number of states around Australia to provide
cross-platform content.
A contextual story:The constraints of subtitling, such as screen space, timing and reading speed, set it apart from straightforward translation. With a team of staff subtitlers, subtitle editors and a pool of some 400 freelance professional translators, SBS's Subtitling Unit handles as many as 90 languages and dialects a year, across a wide variety of genres.
