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24-515: World Watch , or WorldWatch , is a programming block on SBS and SBS Viceland , and a standalone television channel in Australia, that carries news bulletins from countries around the world. The World Watch service gives viewers the opportunity to see news bulletins in their native language. The majority of these bulletins are produced by public or state broadcasters . The WorldWatch program began on 24 August 1993 with news bulletins from

48-634: A German and English-language television channel broadcast via satellite , DW (TV), adding a short Spanish broadcast segment the following year. In 1995, it began 24-hour operation (12 hours in German, 10 hours in English, two hours in Spanish). At that time, DW (TV) introduced a new news studio and a new logo . In 2001, Deutsche Welle (in conjunction with ARD and ZDF ) founded a subscription TV channel for North American viewers called German TV . The project

72-456: A regular schedule, is known as a marathon . Block programming in radio also refers to programming content that appeals to various demographics in time blocks, usually corresponding to the top or bottom of the hour or the quarter-hour periods. For example, various musical genres might be featured, such as a country music hour, a three-hour afternoon block of jazz, or a four-hour Saturday night '70s disco show. Generally speaking, block programming

96-565: A series of related shows which are likely to attract and hold a given audience for a long period of time. Notable examples of overt block programming were NBC 's Thursday evening " Must See TV " lineup, which included two hours of sitcoms and one hour of ER , and Channel 4 's " T4 " program which often ran sitcoms back-to-back for an hour or more. Reruns on cable television are often assembled into similar blocks to fill several hours of generally little-watched daytime periods. A particularly long program block, especially one that does not air on

120-490: A voiceover in the bulletin's native language. If the bulletin is in English, then no relevant information as mentioned is shown. In early 2022, SBS announced that they are relocating most of non-English news bulletins from the World Watch programming block into their newly launched in-house news channel SBS WorldWatch , which launched on 23 May 2022, along with SBS-produced local news in both Arabic and Mandarin (which

144-506: Is alive and well on outlets like public radio (such as NPR , the BBC , or CBC ) and in multicultural radio serving broad ethnic and cultural audiences, although even in this realm the idea of block programming is declining due to competition for donations. Some programming blocks have become so popular that they have been transformed to full-fledged 24-hour channels. Current channels which started as program blocks include Disney Junior (which

168-499: Is also a Cartoon Network Programming Block. However, since the 2010s, new programming blocks have become rare due to airing programming in a regular format or with little or no brand reference within the programming block. DW-TV DW-TV ( German pronunciation: [ˈdeːveːteːˈfaʊ̯] ) is a German multilingual TV news network of Deutsche Welle . Focussing on news and informational programming, it first started broadcasting 1 April 1992. DW broadcasts on satellite and

192-493: Is anathema to modern competitive commercial radio, which traditionally uses uniform formats, other than a handful of speciality shows in off-peak hours such as weekends (for instance, the infamous beaver hours in Canadian radio). The general rationale for not using block programming is that listeners expect a certain type of music when they tune into a radio station and breaking from that format will turn those listeners away from

216-589: Is broadcast via the AsiaSat 7 , GSAT-15 , Nilesat 102 , Atlantic Bird 3 , Hot Bird 13B , AMC-1 and Intelsat 9 satellites. DW-TV is also available on the Internet and on Digital terrestrial television in a handful of cities in the United States. A transponder on Hot Bird 8 , used by DW-TV among other stations, was jammed on 7 and 8 December 2009. Eutelsat , the operator of the satellite localised

240-511: Is still a program block on Disney Channel ); the Nick Jr. Channel (based on the Nick Jr. block that still airs on Nickelodeon); Boomerang (which was once a program block on Cartoon Network ); PBS Kids (which is still a program block on PBS ) and MeTV Toons (which was once a programming block on MeTV ). In addition, TV Land airs older shows that were once aired on sister channel Nickelodeon's Nick at Nite program block. Adult Swim

264-534: Is uplinked from Berlin . DW's English broadcast service is aimed at an international audience. DW (TV) began as RIAS-TV , a television station launched by RIAS , a West Berlin broadcaster in August 1988. The fall of the Berlin Wall the following year and German reunification in 1990 led to the closure of RIAS-TV. On 1 April 1992, Deutsche Welle inherited RIAS-TV's broadcast facilities, using them to start

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288-679: The People's Republic of China , the United States , Germany and Russia . In June 2002, SBS launched the SBS World News Channel , providing repeats of aired bulletins on SBS in addition to updated bulletins. In October 2003, Filipino , Vietnamese and Arabic were added to the World Watch schedule. However, the Vietnamese service was controversial as the broadcaster chosen was the government-controlled VTV4 , which

312-462: The 1980s, it was not uncommon to mix various blocks of talk programming together on one station, but this has declined dramatically in the late 1990s and beyond. A listener to a conservative talk radio station will have little interest in a progressive talk radio , sports radio or hot talk block, which reaches a different demographic; stations that have attempted the block strategy have historically been unsuccessful. Block programming of this nature

336-600: The Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The programs are usually broadcast unedited, and between the times of 2:30 am and mid-afternoon. However, SBS does edit programs under "exceptional circumstances" where it breaches broadcasting regulations and its Codes of Practices. In addition, commercials and sponsorship messages are edited out, while

360-581: The United Kingdom. The channel continues to be available via other satellites receivable in the UK. Deutsche Welle relaunched their television channels and their schedules on 6 February 2012, using the abbreviation DW for all its services. Deutsche Welle changed its schedules again on 22 June 2015, with DW in Asia and Oceania and DW (Europe) merged to become a 24-hour English news channel. English programmes on DW (Arabia) and DW (Español) were discontinued. DW-TV

384-924: The United States, Australia, and New Zealand. In the Philippines , some English-language programmes are broadcast nationwide on Net 25 and PTV 4 . In the U.S., some of its programs were distributed via the World Channel as well as MHz Worldview , although after the closure of MHz Worldview in 2020, a few stations have since offered a full carriage of DW-TV. In March 2009, DW-TV expanded its television services in Asia with two new channels: DW-TV Asia and DW-TV Asia+. DW-TV Asia (DW-TV Asien in German) broadcasts 16 hours of German programming and eight hours in English while DW-TV Asia+ broadcasts 18 hours of English programmes plus six hours of German programmes. In August 2009, DW-TV ceased broadcasts on Sky channel 794 in

408-522: The World Watch schedule, the policy of SBS has been to match the selection of news programs with the ethnic composition of the Australian population. The World Watch schedule includes news bulletins from Armenia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, France, Fiji, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Malta, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan,

432-488: The World Watch schedule: African English , Armenian , Bengali , Bosnian , Nepali , Punjabi , Romanian , Sinhalese , Somali , Tamil and Thai ; and created an English language line-up on SBS, which moved the Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin bulletins from SBS to SBS 2. Usually, before a WorldWatch bulletin, an intro animation revealing the city and country of origin of the bulletin, sometimes also including

456-633: The end of the program will also be cut out when the program runs overtime in its timeslot. Also, due to SBS broadcast rights to certain sporting events, particular bulletins can be axed from schedule to allow airtime for the sporting events. Very rarely does SBS ever fill in broadcast gaps with WorldWatch bulletins. In case that SBS does not receive the program on time, the program's timeslot would be filled with either its WeatherWatch program or English-language programming from DW-TV in Germany. Block programming Block programming involves scheduling

480-427: The full title of the bulletin, is shown, as well as a disclaimer, which, following the previously mentioned backlash over the choice of Vietnamese news broadcasts, explains that the bulletin may not reflect the network's standards and may include distressing content. After a bulletin ends, information about other airtimes for that bulletin and airtimes for the bulletin language's SBS Radio program are shown, explained by

504-431: The latter two was premiered early on SBS On Demand since earlier that year), as both SBS and SBS Viceland are making some space for special events such as live sports that has been interrupt World Watch news bulletins (see below ), although English news bulletins from international news channels (not to be confused with SBS-produced SBS World News ) are still available to watch in the morning and midday. In determining

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528-410: The station; likewise, a station that airs its programming in hodgepodge blocks will have difficulty building listener loyalty, as listeners' music will only be on for a few hours of the day. This argument for homogenized radio was also a driving force behind the effective death of freeform radio in the late 20th century. The case of talk radio is indicative of the decline of block programming: prior to

552-668: Was seen as deeply offensive and seen as propaganda to many Vietnamese Australians who fled after the Vietnam War . It was quickly removed on 17 October. In 2009, SBS replaced the World News Channel with SBS 2 (now SBS Viceland) , and the bulletins also moved to the new channel under the "World Watch" banner. Bulletins air from 6:00am to 6:00pm, whereas SBS airs the bulletins between 5:00am and 1:30pm. In 2010, SBS added three new languages: Portuguese , Urdu and Hindi . In October 2015, SBS added eleven new bulletins to

576-451: Was shut down after four years due to low subscriber numbers. It was replaced by the DW-TV channel, which is also a subscription service. Unlike most other international broadcasters, DW-TV doesn't charge terrestrial stations for use of its programming, and as a result its DW News and other programmes are rebroadcast on numerous public broadcasting stations in several countries, including

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