2003 - 04 Annual Report - Sbs

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10INDIGENOUS PRODUCTIONSSBSi continues to actively support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island productions. SBS’s historic Indigenousproduction First Australia Nations, commissioned in 2004, is expected to be delivered for broadcast in late 2006.Writers are Louis Nowra and Rachel Perkins, directors Ivan Sen and Rachel Perkins, to be produced by Darren Daleand Rachel Perkins of Blackfella Films.In 2003-04, 17½ hours of Indigenous programs were commissioned and five hours transmitted.Commissioned programsFirst Australian NationsIndigenous Interstitials (Pilot)Australian Family CenturyLoved Up (NIDF Series 6)Stock SquadTen CanoesWives TaleDocumentary series (8 x 1 hr)Interstitials featuring Leah Purcell (2 x 1 min)Documentary Accord series (5 x ½ hr)National Indigenous Documentary Fund (5 x ½ hr)Documentary series (4 x ½ hr)Feature filmDrama (1 hr)Transmitted programsKabbarliQueen of HeartsCold TurkeyDreaming in MotionInside Australia: Ngangkari WayMaking ItWe of Little VoiceShort feature (1 hr)Drama (1 hr)Drama (1 hr)Short dramas (4 x ¼ hr)Documentary (½ hr)Interstitials (2 x 7 min)Documentary (½ hr)NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRSWith access to more international news sources thanany other Australian network, SBS News provides themost comprehensive and authoritative coverage of worldevents, coupled with concise reports of the nation’s majorpolitical events, economic trends and business affairs.NewsThe nightly SBS World News bulletins at 6.30pm andthe Monday to Friday World News Tonight bulletinsat 9.30pm maintained their reputation for unparalleledcoverage of international news and major national eventsat a time when public interest in global issues has neverbeen higher.Now into its 20th year, Dateline remains Australia’slongest-running international current affairs program,and Insight is the nation’s only current affairs programwith a studio audience format that provides a forum forAustralians to speak their minds on the political andsocial issues of the day.Throughout the year, SBS World News continued topresent Australia’s most authoritative and comprehensiveinternational news coverage on free-to-air television. Aswell as providing an Australian perspective on major worldevents throughout the year, SBS journalists also reportedfirst-hand on important regional events such as the trials ofthe Bali bombers, the deployment of Australian troops inthe Solomon Islands, and the Pacific Forum.SBS reporters also went further afield to cover the PrimeMinister’s visits to the United States and Europe, andother important meetings such as the CommonwealthHeads of Government meeting in Nigeria.The reconfigured newsroom set allowed coverage of
11major breaking stories as soon as they happened. Newscoverage that broke into normal programming includedthe appointment of the new Governor-General, the ALPleadership contest, and the assassination of the Hamasleader, Sheik Yassin, in the Gaza Strip.While the Vietnamese news program was suspendedindefinitely after two months following communityprotests, the Arabic news from the United Arab Emiratesand the Tagalog bulletin from the Philippines were warmlywelcomed by their respective audiences.This year, SBS maintained strong audiences in its flagship6.30pm SBS World News bulletin which consistentlyfeatured in the weekly top 10 programs on SBS.Supplementing the two evening news bulletins, and oftenproviding exclusive vision, is the daily news omnibusprogram, WorldWatch. Its schedule includes 21 differentnews services in 17 languages from 18 countries, totallingalmost 60 hours per week.Daily satellite news feeds are received from CCTVChina, Dubai RTV, France Télévision, DW Germany, ERTGreece, ATV Hong Kong, TVRI Indonesia, RAI Italy, NHKJapan, NBN Philippines, NTV Russia, RTVE Spain, andPBS of the USA. Additionally, five news review bulletinsare airfreighted each week for Sunday replay fromcountries where satellite connections are uneconomical.The Sunday line-up includes news programs from TVNChile, Duna TV Hungary, PBS Malta, Telewizja PolsatPoland, MIST Ukraine and a special satellite weekendnews magazine from RAI, complementing the weekdaybulletins from Italy.Major changes to WorldWatch during 2003-04 includedthe expansion of the schedule in October 2003 with theintroduction of weekday bulletins in Arabic from Dubai,Vietnamese from VTV Hanoi, and the conversion of theweekly cassette news from the Philippines into a Tuesdayto Saturday satellite service from Manila.The WorldWatch services are also available on theWorld News Channel, SBS’s digital service. The WorldNews Channel, which began in June 2002, broadlymirrors the WorldWatch schedule, minus the Englishlanguage services. The bulletins are updated wherepossible or repeated throughout the day until aftermidnight. The World News Channel provides morethan 130 hours of programming each week. This year,the World News Channel also became available on theFoxtel digital platform.SBS News continued its development of Onlineaudiences through the revamped and extended WorldNews website (www.theworldnews.com.au), and the‘Street Vision’ service. Since November 2003, SBS hasprovided 30-second news updates three times a day to‘Street Vision’ which projects them onto big screens inrailway stations in and around the Sydney CBD.SBS News also produces for its website a five minutevideo news bulletins of the top stories from around theglobe. The video service is recorded each weekday at 8am,digitally converted, and posted on the site by 9.30am.The WorldWatch schedule was restructured toaccommodate the expanded range of programs. Theguiding policy for expansion of WorldWatch is to programaccording to Australian Bureau of Statistics data onlanguages spoken in Australian homes.
Page 1 and 2: 2003 - 2004ANNUALREPORTcelebrating
Page 3 and 4: iCONTENTSOverview and Vision Statem
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Page 27 and 28: 17SBS ATTENDANCE AT FILM FESTIVALS
Page 29 and 30: 19Weekly Reach by Key DemographicsS
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Page 35 and 36: 25News and World ViewEvery language
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Page 39 and 40: 29AUDIENCE RESEARCHAWARDSSBS Radio
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Page 45 and 46: 35TELEVISION AND RADIOwww.sbs.com.a
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63INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATIONSBS ma
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69In 2003-04, bulletins were added
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71In 2003-04, the budget for Austra
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCEf
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STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWSfor the year
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139NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARD
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