SBS Television: Distinctive,
thoughtful storytelling
SBS is committed to connecting Australians from diverse multicultural
backgrounds to inspire a greater understanding between the many communities
which call Australia home.
Currently SBS reaches 13.1 million
Australians each month, and 3295 hours of programs are subtitled across SBS,
SBS 2/SBS VICELAND, NITV and online on average annually.
With a strategic focus on utilising
multiplatform event television across key genres of news and current affairs,
documentary, food, drama and entertainment, SBS aims to drive a national conversation
about what it means to be Australian today. Our dedication to curating the best
acquired content from across the world brings audiences a diverse, rich and
often never-before seen offering.
Around half of our programs are broadcast in languages other than English, and
many of these are made accessible to everyone who speaks English by our
award-winning subtitling unit.
News SBS
has a reputation for unmatched Australian and international news coverage
including ourflagship nightly news program SBS
World News and the Tuesday night current affairs block
of Insight and
Dateline.
Aimed at younger audiences and broadcasting
on SBS VICELAND, The Feedbrings
Australians the stories and unique perspectives that matter across news,
interviews, in-depth features and satire.
In addition to our Australian news services,
SBS also broadcasts over 100 hours of international news bulletins through its World
Watch service on SBS and SBS VICELAND. Covering 35 languages originating from 37 international broadcasters each
week, across its network, all bulletins are also available on SBS On Demand
seven days a week for people to watch when they choose to.
Documentaries SBS is renowned for its world-class documentaries and Australians come
to SBS for a different perspective on the big issues.SBS has explored big issues in
though-provoking ways through programs like Go
Back To Where You Came From, First Contact, First Australians, Immigration
Nation and DNA Nation. It also
brings Australians some of the best documentaries from around the world,
Entertainment Celebrating
diversity is at the centre of SBS’s entertainment offering. From Australia’s
participation in the annual Eurovision
Song Contest, The Sydney Gay & Lesbian
Mardi Gras and Chinese-Australian drama-comedy series, The Family Law, these are some examples of our commitment to
promoting diversity in media, and our contribution to a national dialogue about
successful multiculturalism.
Dramas
SBS is the home to the best dramas both home grown Australian original
commissions, and the best in acquired dramas from around the world. Some dramas
include Deep Water, Vikings, Versaille,Roots, The Family Law, and Australian
critically acclaimed, The Principal,.
SBS On Demand also allows for 24/7 access to the best dramas at your
fingertips, available across 24 different platforms.
Food
SBS
takes audiences on a cultural food journey, bringing new faces and fresh
approaches to food through commissioned programs like Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne, Shane Delia’s Moorish Spice
Journey, The Chefs’ Line, Food Safari Fire, Destination Flavour , Noma
Australia and Poh & Co. NITV NITV is Australia’s national free-to-air Indigenous television
channel which brings programming produced predominantly by, for and about
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, offering all Australians a
window into Indigenous culture and stories.
The channel celebrates Indigenous storytelling, challenging
perceptions and facilitates conversations connecting all Australians to the
world’s oldest continuing culture. Programs include children’s animation Little J & Big Cuz,First
Contact season 2 which was simulcast on SBS and
NITV, collaborative project Songlines
on Screen, and news and current affairs programs,The
Point, Living
Black, Awaken,
and
sports program The Marngrook Footy Show.
Sport
SBS has all the sports events the world gets passionate about.
SBS is a long pioneer of football in Australia and as the official broadcaster
of the FIFA World Cup since 1990, its loyalty to football audiences is not
limited to just the jewel in the crown. SBS also ensures Australian audiences can
view the world game of football on all levels, for both the men's and women's
tournaments from FIFA including the Women's
World Cup, U-17s & U-20 year old
World Cups, the Confederations Cup, Beach Soccer, and the A-League.
SBS also broadcasts the best of European football with the Premier League, the FA
Cup Final, UEFA Euro, and the UEFA Champions
League.
SBS's flagship weekly football program, The
World Game, is a must watch for all football fans every Monday night and
features news reports, results and highlights of football leagues from all
around the globe.
Along with football, SBS has long championed the sport of domestic and
international cycling in Australia. SBS is the home of cycling and has been the
official broadcaster of international cycling's pinnacle event the Tour de France for 25 years. SBS covers other
international major cycling events s including the the Vuelta a Espana, the Tour of California, Criterium du Dauphine,
the European Spring Classics, Tour of
Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
Transmission
Increasingly, transmission platforms carry both television and radio services
and currently this applies on both the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST)
system and the digital terrestrial television platform. SBS transmits 539
terrestrial television services around the country, serving approximately 97% of
the Australian population.
SBS Radio transmits in capital cities and
regional centres using analogue and digital transmissions. SBS radio services
are also available on the Digital Television platform and the VAST platform.