AnnuAl REPORT 2011-2012 - Sbs

Goal 1: Objective 1.3
Subtitling into languages other
than English
in order to deliver on its objective to increase the range
and quality of multilingual services across all platforms,
SbS embarked on a first in the history of broadcasting in
Australia around Once Upon a time in cabramatta.
SbS simulcast english and vietnamese versions of Once
Upon a time in cabramatta on SbS ONe and SbS tWO.
the english version was broadcast on SbS ONe (with
english subtitles where required); a vietnamese subtitled
version was broadcast at the same time on SbS tWO.
this extended the reach of the program, and catered for
the vietnamese community in Australia, who were the
main focus of the program. the DvD version of the series
carries english and vietnamese subtitled versions. these
versions were made available on SbS Online as well as
chinese and Arabic subtitled versions.
SbS also produced multi-language versions of the Family,
with Arabic, chinese and italian subtitled versions made
available on SbS Online. the DvD of the series was
released with english and italian subtitled versions.
the SbS Online commissioned interactive documentary
the block has been subtitled into Arabic, chinese, French
and Spanish, making it accessible to those language
communities in Australia and worldwide. Audiences can
also listen to the interviews in Dharug, the language group
from which Gadigal derives.
WorldWatch international
news bulletins
SbS broadcasts up to 20 hours of news each day under
the WorldWatch banner. Acquired from 27 broadcasters
around the world in 24 languages other than english,
WorldWatch has for many years led the world in uniting
so many original language news bulletins under one
organisational umbrella (See Appendices 14-15).
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WorldWatch is provided to cater for the individual
language and cultural needs of Australia’s diverse multicultural
community. it provides a unique and regular news
service from the homeland of many of our citizens and
visitors in their own language. it also offers all Australians
a perspective on world news events not offered by any
other broadcaster.
the WorldWatch schedule is transmitted on SbS ONe
and SbS tWO. While most of the largest non-english
language communities are served by regular news bulletins
WorldWatch is looking to expand its in-language news
services based on the recently released 2011 census data.
During the year the WorldWatch schedule was enhanced
with the addition of an Al jazeera english news bulletin
broadcast daily Monday to Friday and on Sunday on
SbS ONe. SbS began to make WorldWatch bulletins
available online on both the SbS ON DeMAND and SbS
Radio program language websites. Five news bulletins
are now available online, Mandarin, Hindi, Greek, Dutch
and Macedonian and more will follow as online rights are
cleared with our 27 broadcast partners around the world.
SbS News and current Affairs maintains significant
program and content supply relationships with
overseas broadcasters for the supply of news services
for SbS’s WorldWatch service. in order to maintain such
a network of international news sources, SbS operates
one of the most complex broadcast communication
systems in the world, accessing daily news material via
eleven international satellites and four fibre-optic links
from London and Los Angeles. SbS has also started
using file transfer protocol services to access material
from sources where traditional satellite links prove to be
not viable.