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Overview |
| The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. About 80 percent of funding for the company is derived from tax revenue. 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". SBS is one of five main free-to-air networks in Australia. |
| Type: | Statutory Corporation |
| Founded: | 1 January 1978 |
| Headquarters: | Artarmon, New South Wales |
| Area Served: | Australia |
| Key People: | Stephen Smith (Minister for Communications and the Arts) Carla Zampatti (Chair) Joseph Skrzynski (Deputy Chair) Michael Ebeid (Managing Director) |
| Owner: | Government of Australia |
| Divisions: | SBS Television SBS Radio SBS Sport SBS independent SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra SBS Sexuality |
TV Channels |
| Logo: | Channel: | Broadcast Area: | Language: | Content: | Channel Number: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBS/SBS HD | Australia | English | Mixture | Channel 3 and 30 |
 | SBS 2 | Australia | English | Sport, Youth and Light Entertainment | Channel 31 |
 | SBS World Movies | Australia | Variety | Australian and International Movies | Channel 32 |
 | SBS Food | Australia | English | Food and cooking | Channel 33 |
 | NITV/NITV HD | Australia | English Australian Aboriginal languages Australian Aboriginal English Western Torres Strait language Eastern Torres Strait language Torres Strait Creole | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content | Channel 34 and 36 |
 | SBS WorldWatch | Australia | Variety | International and local multilingual news programs | Channel 35 |
Radio Stations |
| Logo: | Station: | Broadcast Area: | Language: | Content: | Frequencies: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | SBS Radio 1 | Australia | Aboriginal Australian English Albanian Amharic Armenian Bosnian Bulgarian Cantonese Chinese Croatian Dinka Estonian Finnish French Greek Hebrew Hungarian Japanese Khmer Korean Macedonian Mandarin Chinese Polish Romanian Samoan Serbian Slovenian Tigrinya Vietnamese Yiddish | Multilingual programming | Sydney: 1107AM Melbourne: 1224AM Brisbane: 93.3FM Perth: 96.9FM Adelaide: 106.3FM |
 | SBS Radio 2 | Australia | Assyrian Bengali Burmese Czech Dari Dutch Tagalog German Gujarati Hindi Hmong Indonesian Italian Kurdish Lao Malayalam Maltese Nepali Pashto Persian Portuguese Punjabi Russian Sinhala Slovak Somali Spanish Swahili Tamil Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu | Multilingual programming | Sydney: 97.7FM Melbourne: 93.1FM Brisbane: DAB+ Perth: DAB+ Adelaide: DAB+ |
 | SBS Radio 3 | Australia | English | BBC World Service, Sporting events | DAB+ |
 | SBS Chill | Australia | English Variety | Relaxing music | DAB+ |
 | SBS Arabic | Australia | Arabic | Arabic music, news and talk programming | DAB+ |
 | SBS PopAsia | Australia | Korean Japanese Mandarin Chinese Cantonese Chinese Tagalog Vietnamese | K-Pop, J-Pop, J-Rock, Mandopop, Cantopop, Pinoy pop, V-Pop | DAB+ |
 | SBS South Asian | Australia | Hindi Tamil Gujarati Punjabi Malayalam Bengali Telugu Nepali Sinhala Urdu | South Asian music, news and talk programming | DAB+ |
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