Special Broadcasting Service
SBS
1 January 1978 – December 1991
Renamed Special Broadcasting Service Corporation in 1991.
Statutory multicultural broadcaster providing radio programmes in many languages and, from 1980, multicultural television.
Names over time
- Special Broadcasting Service1978–1991
- Special Broadcasting Service Corporation1991–present
How it came into existence
Established on 1 January 1978 under the Broadcasting and Television Amendment Act 1977, taking over the ethnic radio stations 2EA Sydney and 3EA Melbourne, which had begun in 1975 under the Commonwealth's broadcasting administration.
- Ethnic radio stations 2EA and 3EA
The stations were set up in 1975 under the Department of the Media and passed with broadcasting to the Postal and Telecommunications Department in December 1975.
Legislation: Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 (as amended by the Broadcasting and Television Amendment Act 1977)
Changes during its life
- 24 October 1980Began multicultural television broadcasting in Sydney and Melbourne.
How it ended
Continued as the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation under the Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991.
Main functions
- Multilingual radio broadcasting
- Multicultural television (from 1980)
- Subtitling and acquisition of foreign-language programmes
Where it sits
Last in the portfolio of Department of Transport and Communications.
Lineage
Loading lineage…
Sources
Some dates or links for this organisation are not fully confirmed. Corrections are welcome.