SBS Worldwatch channel: premiere week

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1. They say you have to retune your TV….done that but still no signal…what to do??

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   1. Try https://www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/sbs-worldwatch or call 1800 500 727.

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      1. Thanks David…..followed the instructions on the website…..still no luck, but rang the 1800 number and they will get back to me……..Tom

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         1. Also try here.

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            1. Thanks David……SBS Technical Dept rang as well…all now sorted.

2. I was hoping SBS WorldWatch would add NHK World Japan to their overnight lineup but alas they didn’t. Still tho, If you manage to catch the brief 20-25 minute simulcast on SBS Viceland once a week, They do provide some fascinating programming inbetween news bulletins.

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3. The viewership for this will be vanishingly tiny-one needs to speak whatever language is shown very well and then have both the desire and time to watch what is often govt propaganda from across benighted parts of the world. The 2 SBS made programs could simply be slotted in to replace existing foreign language news shows across the various channels if desired-this will be their equivalent of 24 hour advert channels on commercial TV!

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   1. With public broadcasting, it’s about essential, vital and critical programming, content that the commercial stations won’t show. It serves a purpose. The issue with having subtitles or alternative audio source options for foreign news is that because of the timeframe and turnaround to broadcast, it’s not possible within the constraints, hence why foreign news broadcasts are exempt from subtitling. This has been an issue for many years and the technological capabilities to do so within the constraints still have not emerged. The in-house productions may possibly have subtitles going by the previews so far.

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      1. What is essential or critical about a foreign news program vetted by assorted authoritarian govts and only understood by a very small number of residents here who probably fled the place for a better life? The resources expended by SBS in this effort could be much better used by replacing the void left by CTV’s closure around the country IMHO.

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         1. There’s definitely a void for community TV and I’m for expansion and reintroduction of CTV services. SBS foreign news services are quite diverse. Foreign governments can be quite different in how they operate, they are foreign after all, and there would be limitations in the outputs from various countries. It’s the languages and cultural diversity that counts. Could cultural diversity and foreign language programming be expressed differently? Yes, that’s a potential possibility and option to consider.

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4. It’s good that there is consistency in the broadcast times for the most part. Then the particular time for the news service of the particular country or language is known. That’s a trend that continues, even from SBS radio. There still seems to be some foreign news bulletins on SBS and Viceland, even though it has freed up space for other broadcasts.

   During the early morning broadcasting at 1:30am on WorldWatch, there is Deutsche Welle English News and France 24 English News on different days. I’m thinking it might be a simulcast between 1:30am and 5:00am. If not, then it would be the half-hour bulletins. If so, what would be broadcast during those hours. The only thing I was hoping for inclusion of on WorldWatch would be programing like SBS Weather Watch which featured meteorological maps, Earth live cameras from various cities and locations globally, and music, which was a cult favourite from the past on SBS.

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5. SBS Worldwatch will broadcast live around Australia, like ABC News channel. That means during winter, all programs will be shown 30 minutes earlier in SA and NT, and two hours earlier in WA. For example, SBS News in Arabic will air at 7.30pm in SA and NT, and 6pm in WA.

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   1. SBS tells me the times are local in all states, so it’s not a case of SBS News in Arabic at 6pm WA.

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