SBS Operations

14 million? That means two thirds of the entire Australian population watches or listens to SBS outlets (which I suppose includes online) at some point each month? Not sure I quite buy that statistic.

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Possible a “reach” statistic i.e., watch SBS TV (or listen to SBS radio) for 5 minutes during the month.

Dr Bulent Hass Dellal has been appointed chairman of SBS board, Federal Communications Minister Mitch Fifield announced today. Dr Dellal was appointed a director of the SBS board in 2010 and has been acting in the chairman role since the exit of Nihal Gupta early last year.

Statement regarding the appointment of Dr Bulent Hass Dellal AO as SBS Chairman

The SBS Board and Executive welcomed the appointment of Dr Bulent Hass Dellal AO as the SBS Chairman, as announced by the Minister for Communications, Mitch Fifield.

SBS Managing Director, Michael Ebeid; said: “On behalf of the Board and the SBS team, I’d like to congratulate Dr Dellal on his appointment, which I have no doubt will be well received by both the employees of SBS, and the communities we serve. He has contributed enormously to SBS during more than six years serving on the Board, including as Deputy Chairman, and has done a tremendous job as Acting Chair over the last year. I’m delighted that he’s been formally appointed to the role.

“Dr Dellal’s extensive knowledge of multicultural affairs, his many years of experience working with diverse community groups, and his strong connections within communities have been invaluable to SBS. I look forward to working closely with him and the Board as SBS continues to deliver distinctive programs and services which help migrants understand Australian culture and values, support Indigenous communities, and showcase the benefits of diversity to all Australians, while also continuing to invest in the organisation’s digital future ensuring that SBS is in a great place for the years ahead.”

Dr Dellal said on his appointment: “I’m incredibly proud to have the opportunity to chair SBS. SBS’s unique ability to access, explore and share stories of Indigenous and multicultural Australia, for all Australians, continues to be one of our greatest and most valuable strengths. As the media sector continues to go through transformative changes, I look forward to working with the Board and management to ensure SBS continues to play such a vital and special role in Australia’s future.”

Dr Dellal has been appointed by the Australian Government as Chairman of the SBS Board for a period of just over three years, which takes his term up to the statutory limit of ten years serving on the SBS Board. He leads the Board of Directors which includes Daryl Karp, Dorothy West, Peeyush Gupta, William Lenehan and Michael Ebeid (Managing Director).

SBS Board hosts ‘in conversation’ community forum

Hosted by SBS Insight presenter Jenny Brockie, the ‘Conversations with SBS – Board Community Forum’ was an opportunity to ask questions and hear directly from the recently appointed Chairman of SBS, Dr Hass Dellal AO, Managing Director Michael Ebeid, other members of SBS’s Board of Directors, Dot West, Bill Lenehan, Daryl Karp and Peeyush Gupta, as well as senior SBS management.

SBS Chairman, Dr Hass Dellal AO, opened the discussion commenting on the important role community consultation has played in the evolution of SBS.

Dr Dellal said: “I have a passion for SBS, and I know that you all have a passion for SBS. We have served the early migrants that came to this country really well, and we continue to serve them. We now have that same responsibility and obligation for Australia’s newer communities, to really serve them well. That’s what we’re about. We serve them through the stories we explore, and we do that through consultation.

“There are so many important issues to tackle and we need to make sure we are for all Australians - Indigenous Australians, new arrivals, as well as the earlier migrant communities - so we all come together as a nation.

“Simply being a culturally and ethnically diverse nation does not constitute a successful multicultural country in the absence of good policy and good consultation. SBS was one of those good policy decisions. It’s ours, it’s all of ours,” Dr Dellal added.

SBS Managing Director Michael Ebeid spoke about how SBS is continuing to evolve to be able to provide more opportunities for Australia’s diverse communities to access more content than ever before.

Mr Ebeid said: “The media sector has changed more in the past five years than it has in the past 50. One of the things that we’ve been really focused on is evolving SBS to ensure we’re keeping up with the way that audiences are consuming media.

“That’s what we’re focused on, using technology to reach more Australians, be available to more communities, and continuing to evolve. But importantly we are making sure that our content is distinctive to every other network, and that has never been more important to us.

“We’re proud to be a network that reflects what you would see walking down any street in any city or town in Australia, more than any other network,” Mr Ebeid added.
The discussion throughout the 90 minute event covered a wide range of topics reflecting the diverse communities that SBS serves including the SBS Radio Services Review currently underway, the importance of promoting languages, the need to serve younger audiences through channels like SBS VICELAND while also helping older audiences take advantage of digital technology including SBS On Demand, as well as Indigenous employment and pathway opportunities.

The community forum followed the first SBS Board meeting of 2017 held at SBS’s headquarters in Artarmon on 23 February. The event also provided a valuable opportunity for representatives of different community groups and organisations with a shared interest in the programs and services SBS delivers, the chance to connect and engage with one another. Attendees were also provided with a preview of upcoming SBS content for 2017.

SBS will continue to host similar public events throughout the year, with details to be published on the SBS website as they become available.

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##sbs announces winner of the Diversity Works Challenge

Surf Life Saving Australia recognised for its campaign concept reflecting Australia’s diversity

SBS is proud to announce Surf Life Saving Australia as the winner of the 2017 Diversity Works Challenge, with their campaign concept developed by KWP! in Adelaide. Opening earlier this year, the initiative called on brands and agencies to develop an advertising campaign that demonstrates the diversity of today’s Australia.

SBS Managing Director, Michael Ebeid, said: “SBS has been championing diversity for more than 41 years and the Diversity Works Challenge is another way of us delivering on this unique purpose. We’re thrilled to see the representation of diverse Australian communities, people and cultures throughout the advertising campaigns submitted as part of this initiative and look forward to seeing the winning entry on air later this year.”

Surf Life Saving Australia will receive $1 million of advertising space across SBS TV and digital assets and their campaign is set to premiere on SBS in the second half of 2017.

The campaign showcases the diversity of Surf Life Saving Australia as an organisation, as well as the many Australians who enjoy the beach. The creative draws attention to the indiscriminate nature of the dangers of the ocean and prompts people regardless of colour, language, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or cultural differences, to think carefully about how and where they enjoy beaches and waterways.

SBS Media Director of Sales, Andrew Cook, said: “Despite the very high calibre of entries, the judging panel was unanimous in its decision to award the prize to Surf Life Saving Australia. The concept integrates the diversity of Australia into the fabric of the campaign and delivers a simple and focused creative strategy that will assist Surf Life Saving Australia to deliver their objective of saving lives.

“It’s been encouraging to see the number of major Australian brands who have taken part in the inaugural Diversity Works Challenge, further demonstrating that thinking with diversity works”.

Surf Life Saving Australia Chief Executive, Melissa King, said, “We’re thrilled to have been judged the winner of the challenge and excited to have the opportunity to bring our creative concept developed by KWP! to life. The challenge will have a significant impact on Surf Life Saving across the country, and assist us in our mission to keep our beaches safe. It will also call out to our wonderfully diverse communities around Australia to think about joining our movement. ”

Nine Entertainment CEO Hugh Marks revealed yesterday his network was outbid by SBS on the rights to The Handmaid’s Tale, which has been a success for SBS on Demand since its debut two weeks ago. He mentioned it as an example of SBS driving up prices for international content during a parliamentary inquiry into the Australian TV and film industry in Sydney yesterday. Did Marks forget that a decade ago, Nine paid big bucks to BBC Worldwide and snatched the rights to Top Gear from SBS (when it was pulling 1 million viewers per week) and managed to ruin the show’s popularity over the years?

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My guess would be Hugh Marks has no idea what The Handmaid’s Tale is about and only wants it because of the buzz it has generated. It’s not the type of drama that would appeal to Nine’s core audience. Far too intelligent and well made. I haven’t a clue where Nine would even place it in their schedule. No doubt it would be buried in a graveyard slot after one failed outing following one of their insipid tent pole shows.

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Perhaps for Stan?

Why is the SBS operating a movie blog where articles like this are posted?

The funding should be re-allocated to TV broadcast services immediately - if the SBS has too much money for its own good, then perhaps a trim back is required.

STATEMENT: SBS refutes claims of anti-Indian propaganda

SBS is aware there is currently an online petition accusing SBS of being anti-Indian and of
publishing anti- Indian propaganda, citing the recent publication of a map of India and the way
Kashmir is depicted.

SBS strongly denies such allegations.

Recently SBS World News published a story online about the 70th anniversary of the partition of
India through the voices of three Australians who witnessed it first-hand. This included a video
with a map showing the changes to the region from before and after the partition.

SBS World News appreciates that both India and Pakistan lay claim to Kashmir and administer
separate parts of the region. As a news service it is not SBS’s role to take a particular side.
For this reason the image shows Kashmir with the colours of both nations as represented on the map.
China also administers part of Kashmir which is included on the map. The map is designed to be seen
as an element within a video not as a still image. The video shows the changes in boundaries over
the past 70 years.

SBS is always mindful of community sensitives when reporting on global issues and tensions such as
this and ensures it remains impartial and balanced in its reporting. SBS has long been a supporter
of the Indian community as it is to all the communities we serve.

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Great reply. :slight_smile:

Where does SBS do it’s playout from?

They outsource all their playout these days. SBS One and Viceland are handled by Deluxe at Lane Cove. NITV and World Movies are played out of MediaHub.

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True To Its Mission, SBS Reflects Our Nation’s Multicultural Diversity

Opinion editorial

Dr Bulent Hass Dellal AO, SBS Chairman

SBS’s relevance has come under attack of late, with critics questioning its value and suggesting that it’s moving further away from its Charter than ever before. It’s unsurprising that this criticism often comes from those with no connection to SBS or its purpose, and those who are unfamiliar with the public broadcaster’s offering in modern multicultural Australia.

Today, Australia has never been more culturally diverse. The latest Census results reveal that forty-nine per cent of us are either born overseas, have one or both parents born overseas, and that twenty-one per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. Migration continues to soar at a rapid pace growing the rich cultural diversity of faces that we see on Australian streets every day.

This diversity remains core to SBS and is the very reason that our TV, radio and digital services are resonating with more Australians than ever before, and in comparison to our media counterparts. At a time when global events are challenging social harmony, the role of a broadcaster dedicated to exploring and reflecting the diversity of contemporary society has never been more important.

As society has evolved, SBS has responded, and there is no better example of its Charter focus and commitment to Australia’s multicultural communities than the new and recently announced SBS Radio schedule.

SBS Radio is a cornerstone of Australia’s multicultural story. For 41 years, its services have helped migrants and emerging communities navigate life in a new country, understand Australian culture and values and integrate into Australian society, informing them of their rights and also their obligations as Australians.

However across those 41 years, the media landscape has evolved significantly and changing audience consumption patterns are reflective of the fragmenting media landscape, now offering more choice and accessibility than ever before.

SBS’s in-language radio and digital services are already engaging with multi-generational migrants as well as those newly arrived, accessible anywhere, at any time, on the device of their choice. While live, linear radio is important to many of these communities; it is evident that audiences are increasingly consuming SBS’s in-language content via digital platforms, with a 110 per cent yearly increase on the number of visitors to SBS Radio websites, and podcast downloads growing 75 per cent across the same period. This multiplatform approach, focused on delivering services at communities’ convenience, remains vital for the nearly five million Australians who speak a language other than English at home.

Following extensive community consultation and in conjunction with the 2016 Census data, SBS’s new radio schedule builds on this past success and re-aligns services to ensure that they are tailored to different communities’ needs, with an increase in audio and online content available to consume via digital platforms. Seven new languages have been identified and added to the offering - Telugu, Karen, Tibetan, Hakha Chin, Rohingya, Mongolian and Kirundi (Rundi) - and with more than 50% of language speakers in each of these groups aged 20-54, will solely be catered for through digital services.

With multiplatform content in 68 languages, SBS Radio remains as the world’s most linguistically diverse public broadcaster and growing digital services to meet the needs and expectations of different audiences echoes SBS’s commitment to Australia’s multicultural communities.

And of course, SBS’s commitment reaches far beyond SBS Radio. The SBS Charter runs through the veins of the entire organisation and is once again the very reason that the network stands apart in the homogenous media market.
Across the whole spectrum of distinctive TV, radio and digital services, SBS remains as the only media organisation not just reflecting the reality of Australia on our screens, but exploring it through unique and authentic storytelling, with diversity and inclusion at its core.

More than 1.3 million people migrated to Australia over the last five years, and as this cultural complexity increases, the need for a broadcaster where a diversity of views, voices and faces are represented has never been more relevant. Now more than ever, is a time where Australians can be proud of SBS and its ongoing symbol of our nation’s commitment to a cohesive multicultural society.

He notes that SBS Radio serves the Australian multicultural community well, and I agree that it does an excellent job. But to lump all of SBS together and then imply that SBS Television is also doing a good job serving the multicultural community is trying to put one over on all of us.

More and more SBS are dropping the morning overseas news bulletins for sports coverage, the 6:30 news is a tragedy to watch now being a pale imitation of the days of Donikian and Kostakidis, and they have very few non-english programs in primetime on both SBS and Viceland preferring US english programs and movies that generally rate poorly anyway.

It’s still a fantastic bulletin imo. Have very recently started watching again and it’s very refreshing and in terms of overseas coverage more informative than even the ABC.

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No, the dour presentation turned me off. I prefer BBC World News, CNN, euronews, Channel NewsAsia and CBSN. I guess I’ll give it another go.

Presentation has never been SBS’ strongsuit, and tbh I doubt many SBS viewers care. I like it more because there’s more international news than other free to air alternatives, and it’s relatively easier than sorting through half a dozen or so news outlets.