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12 unusual facts about Special Broadcasting Service


A Jihad for Love

A Jihad for Love is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Documentary Fund, Channel 4 Television (UK), ZDF (Germany), Arte (France-Germany), Logo (US) and SBS (Australia).

Artarmon, New South Wales

The studios of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), a public television station, are located in Herbert Street.

Bathurst 12 Hour

The 2013 race was broadcast as a three-hour highlights program on the SBS program Speedweek the weekend after the race.

Channel Zero

Special Broadcasting Service, an Australian public broadcasting radio and television network previously known as "Channel 0/28"

Cumberland Grove Country Club

The launch was highly publicized throughout Australia by Network 10, Nine Network, SBS, the ABC, The Daily Telegraph and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Drouin, Victoria

Both national public broadcasters, Australian Broadcasting Corporation including channels ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24 and Special Broadcasting Service including SBS One and SBS Two, and Channel 31 ,Community TV are broadcast to Drouin as well

Fíorscéal

The series is based on programming funded by SBS in Australia and by a French production company, this series in Ireland has been repackaged for an Irish audience.

In between

In Between (TV miniseries), an Australian television miniseries which aired on SBS in 1986.

Irish Language Association of Australia

The Association had its immediate origins in various Irish language classes run in the inner suburbs of Melbourne in the 1980s, supplemented by an Irish language program broadcast by the Special Broadcasting Service.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006

The show was broadcast live in the competing countries, as well as Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Australian television channel Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) that acquired the rights for broadcasting the show, which was broadcast on 1 January 2007.

Moe, Victoria

Both national public broadcasters, Australian Broadcasting Corporation including channels ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24 and Special Broadcasting Service including SBS One and SBS Two, are broadcast to the Latrobe Valley from the TV tower at Mount Tassie, as well as from the Dandenong Ranges transmitters located east of Melbourne.

Scottsdale, Tasmania

Scottsdale is served by television stations ABC TV, SBS, Southern Cross Tasmania, WIN Television, TDT and radio stations 7SD 540 kHz and Sea FM 99.7 MHz, and Launceston newspaper The Examiner and local newspaper The North-East Advertiser.


Colac, Victoria

In addition to commercial television services, Colac receives Government ABC Television (ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24) and SBS (SBS One and SBS Two) television services.

Frances Rings

Rings has starred in the documentary drama The Widower (2004) and presenting television shows SBS TV’s ICAM (Indigenous Current Affairs Magazine) and ABC TV's Sunday Arts program.

Macarthur Girls High School

Counted amongst "The Old Girls" is the Olympic gold medal winning runner Betty Cuthbert and SBS Dateline presenter Yalda Hakim, International fashion model Robyn Lawley, Fashion Model Rachel Rutt

Manuel Aroney

From 1978-81 he served as one of four members of the first Board of the Federal Governments Special Broadcasting Service, which made ethnic radio permanent across Australia and, with Bruce Gyngell, established the SBS television service.

Michalis Rakintzis

Music composition titles for comic ERT2 TV series, "I Alepou Kai O Mpoufos/The fox and the fool" (with George Constantine, Giovanna Fragouli, Dina Consta, Carmen Ruggeri, Dimitra Papadopoulou, Tasos Kostis, etc.) (1987 ) – (1988) the series aired in 1989 in Australia by SBS entitled "The fox and the fool"

Mohammed El-leissy

He has appeared on Sky News, Sunrise, The Project on Network Ten, SBS’s Insight as well as a regular contributor to ABC’s News Breakfast.

Paul Wade

Wade has worked as a commentator and analyst with both the Nine Network and SBS, the latter of which has a strong non anglo demographic and thus makes football a healthy part of its programming lineup.

Sandy Gore

She also has been selected to do voice-overs, e.g., in a programme dubbed into English by SBS about Fado.