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SBS World News Channel
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| SBS World News Channel | |
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| Launched | June 12, 2002 |
| Network | SBS Television |
| Owned by | Special Broadcasting Service |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Website | sbs.com.au/whatson |
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| Terrestrial | |
| SD Digital | Channel 33 |
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| Foxtel Digital | Channel 648 |
| Austar Digital | Channel 610 |
| Cable | |
| Foxtel Digital | Channel 648 |
| TransTV Digital | Channel 17 |
The SBS World News Channel is an Australian television channel broadcast by SBS Television that launched on June 12, 2002. The channel, available to digital television viewers in Australia, is the first digital-only multichannel for the Special Broadcasting Service. The news service broadcasts eighteen hours per day, retransmitting news from fifteen countries.[1] In between news retransmissions, the channel displays weather information, news headlines, as well as commercial advertising.
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The SBS World News Channel was officially inaugurated by Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Richard Alston on June 12, 2002, with the launch broadcast simultaneously live onto the channel.[1]
Genre restrictions imposed by the Australian government on digital multichanneling were lifted along with the media ownership laws passed through the Australian parliament on October 18, 2006.[2]
The SBS World News Channel broadcasts eighteen hours per day, retransmitting over two-hundred news programs per week, from fifteen countries, in eighteen languages other than English.[1] The channel's programming lineup consists of retransmissions of bulletins from news services throughout the world, including:
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These programs are also presented on SBS TV, along with PBS's Nightly Business Report and News Hour, and the English version of Deutsche Welle's bulletin, as part of its WorldWatch timeslot.
Earth TV is broadcasted on the SBS World News Channel when news programs are not broadcast. It also acts as a filler when news programs are delayed.
- Further information: SBS Television
The SBS World News Channel is available on all of SBS Television's digital television transmitters in 576i SD Digital, as well on most satellite and cable services.
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