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We are supporters & friends of Australia’s multicultural multiethnic public broadcaster the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

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WorldWatch began in 1993 but SBS retired on-air transmissions to OnDemand only.
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Controversy about SBS interrupting programs for commercial breaks still has not ended
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It stems from a dispute over SBS's 2006 re-interpretation of “natural program breaks” undermining their multicultural/multilingual obligation in social cohesion.

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⁦It’s unnatural: ⁦@SBS⁩ could be in breach of its Act by its brutalist practice of breaking into programs with ads. Audience interruptus: Save Our SBS and law firm Maddocks examined the history, statute and ind…

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#SBSbreaks Save Our SBS and law firm Maddocks examined SBS's re-interpretation of ‘natural program breaks’ allowing programs be interrupted for commercial breaks, finding the practice is contrary to the parliament's intentions. The full findings are at https://t.co/nxEnMpj50O

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Happy Lunar New Year!

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SBS On Demand viewers will soon be able to block gambling, alcohol, and fast food ads. Uninterrupted viewing will also be available eliminating all but one sponsored ad in a show, providing an uninterrupted viewing experience and unrivalled brand recall.

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Read the full Save Our SBS submission to the REVIEW OF OPTIONS TO SUPPORT THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE NATIONAL BROADCASTERS.

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This week’s budget provides a modest increase of $18.1m to SBS in 2023-24 with a decreasing amount each year up to the 2027 financial year. In real terms there is no increase.
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⁦@SBS⁩ butchers works of art for money. Read film director Julia Leigh’s SMH/The Age article on our multi-cultural broadcaster’s practice of unnatural ad breaks in programs. This must change! Please join ⁦@SaveOurSBS⁩ to help our campaign. Ads between .. not within.

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Certainty assured for SBS as government confirms moving the 3-year funding cycle to 5-yearly for the broadcaster
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SBS working with Reconciliation Australia continues its commitment to First Nations stories https://t.co/hLHMsOInlU

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The National Reconciliation Week 2022 theme is “Be Brave, Make Change” https://t.co/I9HW5IcPUB

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When Andy Lloyd-James died last month, the world lost a media innovator and truly great pioneer of SBS. As former head of SBS-TV he was very critical of the commercial path SBS took in 2006, a decade after he departed https://t.co/bj447PECnH

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As long as SBS keep breaking into programs at whim, the broadcaster will continue to aggravate audiences and ruin engagement and content. It’s unnatural and not what parliament intended.
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SBS WorldWatch new channel this year » https://t.co/4NauRLqgtp https://t.co/EpN9SbOQPS

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EMAIL SBS HERE telling them a ‘natural program break’ means the break at the end of a program only, and to put that in their Codes of Practice to #EndInProgramAdsOnSBS This is needed to stop SBS interrupting programs for ads https://t.co/4lDeMrf8l5

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Now in-language, live interpreting of daily COVID-19 press conferences and updates on SBS
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NAIDOC Week on NITV, SBS radio, television and online
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