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SBS, Nine next in Up Fronts.

Seven and TEN are done and there are two more Up Fronts locked in place.

Seven and TEN are done and there are two more Up Fronts locked in place.

SBS will be having its 2013 Launch tomorrow in Sydney.

This will let advertisers and media see the new line-up under Director of Television Tony Iffland who began with the broadcaster in April. He has already commissioned A Better Man, SBS’ first new local drama in five years. Now that the channel has received a funding boost, it will be fascinating to see how it stacks up.

Indigenous channel NITV is expected to launch in December, under SBS.

There has also been talk of SBS3 and / or a relaunch of SBS2, with one of them tipped to be youth-skewed.

Meanwhile debt-free Nine Network is readying its Up Fronts for late November. Like TEN it will be hosting some breakfast events on the East Coast.

After a strong 2012, in which it will claim the Demos, Nine will rebound off the back of its recent rescue talks. Underbelly: Squizzy is currently filming in Melbourne with footage likely to feature at their event next month.

Foxtel will also be meeting advertisers and media soon but ABC is not expected to have a 2013 Launch.

11 Responses

  1. @vitieddie

    It’s probably because the ABC is the only one that has no advertising. Although SBS is a public broadcaster, it does have limited advertising.

    ABC probably prefers to commission programmes in stages over the course of the year rather than have 1 big battle plan, like the others who present it to advertisers.

  2. Underbelly: Squizzy?? who comes up with these names?? I thought Badness was bad.. Squizzy?? sounds more like a kids show than a soft core snuff film..

  3. Love SBS. I hope they are able to get more Australian content on One and have Two relaunch with a clearer idea for what they stand for, love the French and Danish dramas. It might be cheaper and easier to have SBS3 as SBS1 +1 and NITV on SBS4. Would rather more movies than another youth skewed channel. No interest in Nine.

  4. Thinking of David’s article yesterday that revealed the miniscule ratings of Sbs’s foreign news broadcasts got me wondering.Are they mandated to show a certain percentage of programming in a foreign language?And if they are, do they show all these foreign newscasts in the morning and afternoon to reach a quota and free up primetime for english?

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