55-596: The SBS World News Channel was an Australian television channel broadcast by SBS Television that launched on 12 June 2002. The channel, which used to be available only to digital television viewers in Australia, was the first digital-only multi-channel for the Special Broadcasting Service . The news service was broadcast for eighteen hours per day, seven days a week, retransmitting news from fifteen countries. In between news retransmissions,
110-745: A combined program guide for the free-to-air broadcasters, named Channel 4 ; a news, sport, and weather datacast channel provided by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; a government and public information channel, known as Channel NSW , which included real time traffic information and surf webcams; the Australian Christian Channel; the Expo Channel ; and various federal parliamentary audio broadcasts. Today, datacasting consists of information based channels that are broadcast as subchannels of
165-426: A commercial for the channel was shown. The dialogue is as follows: The SBS World News Channel delivers more than 200 news programs from around the globe each week, providing an up to date and varied perspective on the headlines of the day. Each bulletin is in the language and format of the country of origin. From 5:20am Monday to Saturday, continuous telecasts from international broadcasters via satellite from some of
220-611: A continuing run of poor ratings, Ferguson was demoted to his former role as weekend news presenter, with Peter Overton taking over as news presenter on weeknights. Later in the year, Ferguson was removed from the presenting duties on the Sydney bulletins after announcing his decision to move to the Seven Network , but he didn't move to Seven until he trialled the hosting duties on Nine's Afternoon News only appearing on-air up until his departure on 25 September 2009. Deborah Knight
275-523: A new, nationwide indigenous television network. Although no major political party championed this cause, commercial broadcaster Imparja Television stated in 2004 that it would run such a network, at least within its own licence area. In 2005 the federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts considered funding such a station, and conducted a review process. On 13 July 2007 NITV launched, replacing Indigenous Community Television on
330-616: A number of specialised market segments; including Spanish, Greek , and Italian . As of January 2011, the service is no longer available. There are two small region-based subscription television providers; TransTV Digital which is available in Canberra ; and Neighbourhood Cable based in Ballarat , and also available in Geelong & Mildura . There are also a number of satellite services that target specific language speaking groups,
385-595: A test transmission in Sydney using one of the reserved digital spectrum positions. Australian broadcast infrastructure company Broadcast Australia undertook the three-year trial using the DVB-T system. The trial consisted of a number of services on one standard 7 MHz multiplex , collectively known as Digital Forty Four . The service was extended past the three-year period, but ended in March 2010 The services included;
440-421: A third licence to the same company that owned the other two licences. There are three main metropolitan networks, the Seven Network , Nine Network and Network 10 . Although primarily targeted at metropolitan areas, these names are also used in some regional areas (others choose to run the same programming as these stations, but use independent names). Seven Network Nine Network Network 10 Although
495-573: Is a division of the Special Broadcasting Service , founded to provide for the estimated 20% of Australians that speak a language other than English in the home, aiming to complement the ABC . In recent years SBS TV has begun to target a broader cross-section of the Australian community, in part because of the emergence of specialty subscription television channels aimed at such minorities. In addition to its free-to-air channels, SBS also has an interest in
550-556: Is present only in the form of local news bulletin or local advertising. The amount of local news provided varies from two-minute updates to full-hour, seven nights a week news bulletins. Commercial stations in metropolitan markets (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth), in addition to some regional markets, are owned and operated by their respective network instead of an affiliate operator. However, commercial stations in most regional and remote areas are instead operated by broadcasters with unique licences and commercial agreements with
605-504: Is presented by James Bracey on Sunday to Thursday nights and Roz Kelly on Friday and Saturday nights. Amber Sherlock presents the weather on Sunday to Thursday nights and Belinda Russell on Friday and Saturday nights. Jayne Azzopardi and Mark Burrows are regular fill-in presenters. Brian Henderson was Nine's Sydney news presenter for a record 45 years - including 38 years presenting on weeknights. Retiring in November 2002, Henderson
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#1732787483323660-520: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation , established in 1956. ABC TV , ABC Family , ABC Entertains and ABC News are available nationally, in addition to ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel) , focused at the Asia Pacific region. ABC TV carries a variety of local and national news, current affairs, and sports coverage, as well as Australian arts and comedy programming. It is well known for broadcasting British programming, primarily from
715-466: The BBC , ITV , and Channel 4 . ABC Family , established as a second digital-only channel called ABC2 on 7 March 2005. Originally aimed at providing 'more choice, more often', the channel mainly provided repeats of popular ABC productions, such as Australian Story and Stateline , and was prohibited by law from carrying programmes from a number of genres; however, after the removal of these restrictions
770-688: The Gold Coast , the Central Coast and all of Western Australia until mid-2012 when Foxtel/ Austar merged hence Foxtel gaining the Austar coverage areas. Optus Television operates only in the small parts of Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Adelaide where it has laid cable. SelecTV was the fourth provider of subscription television controlled by WIN Corporation . SelecTV was available throughout Australia via satellite and focused on providing content in comparatively low priced packages to
825-463: The Hawke Labor government introduced a system known as aggregation – regional television equalisation – which would provide viewers with the same viewing choices as those in the metropolitan cities. Consequently, the regional stations and networks continued to merge and expand, and became affiliated with one of the three metropolitan networks. Further equalisation later occurred in the 2000s – with
880-494: The Optus Aurora remote satellite service. On 12 December 2012 NITV was launched on free to air on which was the 4th digital channel of SBS, making this channel available to all Australians wherever SBS digital television is broadcast. In order to allow for commercial licensing, the country was divided into a number of licence areas. When these were drawn up in the 1950s, each major city or regional area – about 50 in all –
935-621: The PAL 625-line format was introduced in 1967 and went to a full-time basis on 1 March 1975 while subscription television , on the Galaxy platform, began in January 1995. Digital terrestrial television was introduced on 1 January 2001 in Australia's five largest capital cities. As early as 1929, two Melbourne commercial radio stations, 3UZ and 3DB were conducting experimental mechanical television broadcasts – these were conducted in
990-497: The Vietnam War The backlash resulting from these events prompted SBS to begin showing disclaimers before all externally produced bulletins, distancing the broadcaster from each bulletin's editorial content. Genre restrictions imposed by the Australian government on digital multi-channelling were lifted along with the media ownership laws passed through the Australian parliament on 18 October 2006. Between broadcasts,
1045-605: The World Movies Channel which has since been revived on free-to-air TV as SBS World Movies and it relaunched on the 1st of July 2019. SBS shows many non-English language films with English subtitles, and each morning shows news bulletins in foreign languages from around the world in its WorldWatch timeslot. In addition to this, a great deal of programming from the PBS , Arte , BBC and CBC , and even Comedy Central are shown. Acquired entertainment programs include
1100-733: The 1958 variety music program Bandstand which was launched by Brian Henderson . It lasted for 14 years on the station and launched the careers of many Australian performers. In 1957, the station formed an affiliation with Melbourne station HSV-7 , allowing them to share programming. In 1963, station affiliations changed; TCN-9 formed part of the National Television Network with GTV-9 in Melbourne, QTQ-9 in Brisbane and NWS-9 in Adelaide . These stations formed
1155-551: The 23rd of May of 2022. National Indigenous Television , funded by the Commonwealth of Australia , is produced in Sydney and broadcast via Imparja Television 's existing satellite capacity. The idea for a national, indigenous television service was initially conceived by the National Indigenous Radio Service (the peak Indigenous radio group), which initially lobbied the government to start
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#17327874833231210-1366: The Federal Government's Digital Switchover Taskforce Industry Advisory Group. In addition to these, a number of community groups produce programming in regional areas, including Queanbeyan Canberra Television (QCTV) in Canberra , Hunter Community Television in Newcastle , Illawarra Community Television (ICTV) in Wollongong and WARP Television in Bathurst . Groups in a number of areas including Ballarat and Victor Harbor have unsuccessfully applied for licences. Aurora Community Television , Australian Multicultural Television, Ballarat Community Cable Television, Channel Vision (Canberra) and Satellite Community TV, although not licensed as community stations, provide similar services. Community Television stations went digital in 2010. However, in September 2014 Australian federal communications minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that licensing for community television stations would end in December 2015. In September 2015, Turnbull, now Prime Minister, announced an extension of
1265-523: The Sydney and Melbourne stations to Alan Bond 's Bond Media for $ 1.055 billion, including $ 200 million in shares of Bond Media. Bond already owned the Perth and Brisbane Nine affiliate stations (among others). In 1990, Bond Media's inability to pay out preference shares to Packer forced Nine into receivership. In July 1990, Packer bought back the expanded Nine Network (Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane) for only $ 200 million, one-fifth of what he sold it for. Perth
1320-805: The US animated series South Park , Queer as Folk and Inspector Rex . In addition to news and current affairs programming such as SBS World News and Dateline , the network also commissions locally produced documentaries, movies and comedy programs. Less-popular mainstream sports such as soccer, cycling and athletics are also shown. SBS currently broadcasts six channels: SBS , known as 'SBS One' between 2009 and 2015, SBS Viceland , known as SBS Two between 2009 and 2016, SBS World Movies , SBS Food , known as Food Network Australia between 2015 and 2018, NITV , also known as National indigenous Television (see #National Indigenous Television and more info about this channel in that section), and SBS WorldWatch launched on
1375-685: The West Australian Community Broadcasting Association was appointed to manage access to the sixth channel in Perth and Mandurah on behalf of groups based in the two cities. Licences were also granted in 1996 to Hobart Access Community Television Inc in Hobart and Bendigo Community Television Inc in Bendigo however these were not renewed. Similarly, a licence for BushVision in Mount Gambier
1430-492: The advent of digital television – to areas that escaped initial aggregation. Today, WIN Television , Imparja Television and Southern Cross Austereo notably remain independent, whereas broadcasters like Prime Television , the Golden West Network , Sunshine Television and NBN Television have been absorbed by the metropolitan networks over the years. As with some of the metropolitan stations, local content
1485-557: The basis of what is now the Nine Network , although only the Sydney and Melbourne stations were owned by the Packer-controlled company Nine Network Limited . On Sir Frank Packer's death in 1974 ownership of Nine Network passed to his younger son Kerry Packer . Kerry's older brother Clyde Packer had been groomed to take over from their father but after a bitter split with his father ca. 1972 he relinquished his role in
1540-534: The channel displayed weather information, news headlines, and some commercial advertising. The SBS World News Channel was officially inaugurated by Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts , Senator Richard Alston on 12 June 2002, with the launch broadcast simultaneously live onto the channel. It was previously known as The World News in its first year. Tagalog , Vietnamese , and Arabic language broadcasts were added to SBS' WorldWatch schedule in 2003. The Vietnamese service, taken from
1595-447: The channel's content was broadened considerably. It was announced by the ABC that, from 4 December 2017, ABC2 was to be replaced by ABC Comedy, ending the channel's 12-year run. ABC Entertains , a third digital-only kids channel began on 4 December 2009. ABC News , a digital news channel began on 22 July 2010. ABC Kids , a digital shared channel began on 2 May 2011. SBS Television
1650-675: The company and subsequently moved to the USA. On 2 March 1981 [1] , the station began broadcasting at the Kingsgate Hyatt Tower (now Elan Building) on UHF channel 49, later moving to UHF channel 52 in February 1983 [2] to allow for ABC and SBS to set up transmitters there. This transmitter was installed to cover areas of central Sydney where reception is affected by the ghosting caused by the high-rise buildings in Sydney's central business district. In January 1987, Kerry Packer sold
1705-457: The deadline to 31 December 2016. The deadline was further extended incrementally by communications minister Mitch Fifield until June 2021, however by 2015 Sydney's Television Sydney had ceased broadcasting, as had Brisbane's 31 Digital , switching to a short-live online streaming service. As of January 2021, the only remaining community television stations in Australia still broadcasting are Melbourne's C31 and Adelaide's Channel 44 . Two of
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1760-409: The early hours of the morning, after the stations had officially closed down. In 1934, Dr Val McDowall at amateur station 4CM Brisbane conducted experiments in electronic television. Australia has three national public broadcasters, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , the Special Broadcasting Service , and, as more recently, National Indigenous Television . ABC Television is a division of
1815-487: The exception of Tasmania and Remote & Central Australia, which got two licences. As some markets were formed by the merger of up to six different individual markets, this meant that some stations had to merge or form partnerships in order to remain competitive. Around the same time, many remote market regions were replaced with two satellite market regions – one for regional Western Australia , and one for remote central and eastern Australia – although each of these regions
1870-458: The existing commercial broadcasters. As of mid 2013, these broadcast mainly infomercials. Examples include TVSN and 4ME . TCN TCN is the flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia . The station is currently located at 1 Denison Street, North Sydney . The licence, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Sir Frank Packer , was one of
1925-598: The first four licences (two in Sydney, two in Melbourne) to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia. TCN-9 is the home of the NRL coverage and national-level Nine News bulletins. TCN began broadcasting on 16 September 1956, and became the first television station in Australia to begin regular transmissions. Test broadcasts, initially consisting of a test slide and later documentaries and dramas, had commenced two months earlier on 13 July 1956. The first TV tower
1980-417: The first program, This Is Television , was introduced by Bruce Gyngell . As Godson's voice only was heard, Gyngell (who spoke and was seen) is regarded as the first person to "appear" on Australian television. Original footage of Gyngell's opening address is not believed to exist but it was re-created in 1959 to have a representation in the archives (albeit, not the real thing). Other early programming included
2035-469: The government-controlled channel VTV4 , was heavily protested against by the Vietnamese community, many of whom found the bulletin's portrayal of the communist Vietnamese flag and Ho Chi Minh offensive. The Vietnamese Community of Australia, claimed that the program's lack of reports on political arrests and religious oppression were also offensive, especially to those who fled the country following
2090-455: The largest being UBI World TV , a non-English language service. Globecast TV and Pan Global TV are non-English language, Christian and sport channel platforms that are controlled by Globecast . Various operators run their own subscription services on these platforms. In addition, there are other satellite subscription services available through other providers. National IPTV operators include TPG IPTV . Datacasting in Australia began as
2145-415: The metropolitan market networks. Some regional markets have one operator holding a monopoly over all three networks, with one "digital only" supplementary station of the three operating under a supplementary licence. Other regional markets have only two operators, each affiliated with their own networks. Consequently, these two operators have formed a supplementary "digital only" joint venture to broadcast
2200-512: The most respected news bureaus of the world, From 7:00am Sundays, news reviews and magazine style information programs. The most comprehensive international news channel in the world, with unparalleled access to continuing news and current affairs from 17 countries in languages other than English. Available only on the SBS World News Channel . The channel was set up as an experimental full service channel. SBS World News Channel
2255-430: The names of the metropolitan stations remain the same across cities, their ownership varies (see below). The population of Australians living outside of metropolitan areas are served by a number of regional television networks that are affiliated with a metropolitan counterpart. Before the 1980s, regional stations were mostly independent with some forming loose partnerships and others merging into local networks. However,
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2310-580: The new Nine News Canberra and Southern NSW bulletins. The bulletins were anchored by Vanessa O'Hanlon . In late 2018, It was announced that after 25 years on air, the Nine Network axed and retired The NRL Footy Show , bringing to an end 25 years of live primetime variety from the station. It was also announced to public and then staff, that after 64 years in Willoughby , TCN would move to North Sydney . This move occurred in stages throughout
2365-486: The opening of TCN-9 , quickly followed by national and commercial stations in Sydney and Melbourne, all these being in 625-line black and white . The commencement date was designed so as to provide coverage of the Olympic Games in Melbourne . It has now grown to be a nationwide system that includes a broad range of public, commercial, community, subscription, narrowcast, and amateur stations. Colour television in
2420-738: The remaining third network. In 1993 the Australian Broadcasting Authority allocated licences for a sixth television channel for non-profit community and educational use on a trial basis. The groundwork for community television was laid in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 , which defined a new service category, community television, for the first time. Prospective community television providers were invited to apply for transmitter licences, which were granted to groups in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane , Adelaide and Lismore . In February, 1995,
2475-486: The second half of 2020. The final broadcast of Sydney’s Nine News from Willoughby, took place on Friday 20 November 2020. The final broadcast from Willoughby was Weekend Today on Saturday 21 November 2020, with Nine News commencing at North Sydney that evening. Weekdays: Weekends: The 9News Sydney is TCN's flagship nightly news bulletin presented by Peter Overton on Monday to Friday nights and Georgie Gardner on Saturday & Sunday nights. Sports news
2530-465: The three major providers of subscription television in Australia carry a common service; however they have a number of differences. Foxtel currently 'controls' the common service that Optus resell. This service is known as the Foxtel Platform. Austar broadcast into all of regional Australia (except Western Australia ), Tasmania and Darwin while Foxtel broadcast in all capital cities,
2585-646: The world, including: These programs are also presented on SBS TV , along with PBS 's Nightly Business Report and PBS NewsHour , SBS TV broadcasts World News Australia , and the English version of Deutsche Welle 's bulletin. earthTV was broadcast on the SBS World News Channel when news programs are broadcast. It also acted as a filler when news programs are delayed. Television broadcasting in Australia Television broadcasting in Australia began officially on 16 September 1956, with
2640-482: Was broadcast on channel 33 from its launch until 29 January 2009, when it was moved to channel 32. Thereafter, a simulcast of SBS was shown on channel 33. SBS World News Channel was closed and replaced by SBS 2 on 1 June 2009. The SBS World News Channel broadcast for 18 hours each day, retransmitting over two-hundred news programs per week, from twenty-three countries. The channel's programming line-up consisted of retransmissions of bulletins from news services throughout
2695-427: Was built there at 24 Artarmon Rd, Willoughby, in 1956 and rose 171 m (561 ft) in height, but was replaced by a taller one in 1965 which is the tallest lattice tower in Australia at 233 m (764 ft), and is now operated by TXA Australia which operates another tower nearby at Artarmon. The first words spoken on the station were by John Godson, who introduced the station audio-only, shortly before
2750-424: Was considered its own market region. In each of the five major capitals, three commercial licences were granted (the exception being Perth which did not receive its third commercial station until 1988 ), while smaller cities or regions were granted a single licence. The process of aggregation began in 1989. Regional markets were merged and (usually) three licences were granted in the new, aggregated, area, with
2805-532: Was granted in 2005, but it later lapsed. Permanent licences for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth were allocated in 2004, while trial licences remain in effect in Adelaide and Lismore. The Australian Community Television Alliance , established in March 2008 is the national representative organisation for community television. The CEO of TVS Sydney , Laurie Patton, is the Secretary and represents ACTA on
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#17327874833232860-577: Was not included due to Bond selling it to Sunraysia Television before Packer buying back the company. In 1994, Packer's print operations (owned by Australian Consolidated Press ) and the Nine Network were merged into one new company, Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL). On 1 October 1997, TCN-9 performed the first on-air trial of digital broadcasting in the southern hemisphere. TCN commenced digital television transmission on 1 January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 8 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 9. The analogue signal for TCN
2915-616: Was only granted two licences. Some remained un-aggregated, and are today known as diary markets. These were granted a second licence, sometimes to the same company that owned the existing licence. Two-broadcaster areas were later granted a third licence, to a joint venture company formed as a partnership of the two existing broadcasters. Examples of these include Tasmanian Digital Television , Mildura Digital Television , Darwin Digital Television and West Digital Television service. Areas with one broadcaster were also granted
2970-425: Was shut off at 9.00am AEDST , Tuesday, 3 December 2013. In 2014 and 2015, TCN produced both Inside Story and The Verdict for the Nine Network, hosted by Leila McKinnon and Karl Stefanovic respectively. The Verdict did not build a solid audience and as expected the program was axed in 2016. In January 2017, following the affiliation formed between Nine and Southern Cross in 2016, the station became home to
3025-500: Was succeeded as weeknight presenter by Jim Waley , who was at the time host of the Sunday program and was one of Nine's most experienced presenters. In January 2005, despite some considerable ratings success, Waley was replaced as weeknight presenter by Mark Ferguson , who was previously the weekend presenter. Ferguson's successor as weekend presenter Mike Munro resigned in 2008 and was replaced by Michael Usher . In 2009, following
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