SBS Australia Online is home to SBS Australia On Demand video streaming service.
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19 Facts About SBS Australia
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The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect Australia's multicultural society".
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The inaugural Chair of SBS Australia was Grisha Sklovsky, and the inaugural executive director was Ronald Fowell.
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In March 1979, the government set up the Ethnic Television Review Panel, which recommended that SBS Australia should expand multilingual services into television.
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At the time, SBS Australia was broadcasting on UHF Channel 28 and VHF Channel 0, with a planned discontinuation of the latter at some time in the future.
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On 5 January 1986, SBS Australia ceased broadcasting on the VHF channel 0 frequency.
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In May 2008, SBS Australia unveiled a new-look logo as well as a new backronymic slogan: "Six Billion Stories and counting".
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On 8 May 2012, SBS received $158 million in government funding, of which $15 million would be used yearly, to fund the formation of a new free-to-air channel devoted to the indigenous peoples of Australia.
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SBS Australia is a supporter of same-sex marriage and pulled an anti-same-sex marriage advertisement ahead of its telecast of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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On 1 July 2019, SBS Australia relaunched their former pay-TV movie channel, World Movies as SBS Australia World Movies and it became a free-to-air channel.
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On 12 January 2022, SBS Australia announced that a sixth free-to-air television channel, with the working title SBS Australia WorldWatch, would be launched in 2022.
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On 14 December 2006, SBS Australia announced its intention to change to 720p as its high-definition transmission standard for SBS Australia HD.
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SBS Australia had previously down converted its scheduled SBS Australia high-definition content to the 576p standard.
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On 1 June 2006, the SBS Australia managing director, Shaun Brown, announced the corporation's desire to initiate in-show commercial breaks, in the same manner as the commercial television networks.
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SBS Australia rolled out the 14-day rolling radio schedule over DTV television in November 2012.
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SBS Australia on Demand is a video on demand and catch up TV service run by SBS Australia.
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SBS Australia independent was the primary production unit of SBS Australia programming, which existed from August 1994 to December 2007.
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