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SBS World News Australia
''SBS World News'' is the news service of the Special Broadcasting Service in Australia. Its flagship nightly bulletin is broadcast at on SBS with additional weeknight 'late' bulletins from on SBS. ''SBS News'' is the name of the news app and website run by SBS. History ''The World News'' began as a half-hour bulletin, first seen in 1980, soon after the launch of the then-named Channel 0/28. George Donikian was the service's first presenter; veteran newsreader Mary Kostakidis began reading the weekend news in 1986. The network's long-running investigative documentary series ''Dateline'' started in 1984. Closed captioning for the ''World News'' was introduced in March 1997. In 2002, a digital-only World News Channel was launched, aimed at providing a comprehensive foreign-language news channel, mainly showing additional bulletins already seen in SBS' morning WorldWatch timeslot. No English-language bulletins were shown on the channel until its demise in 2009. ''World N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SBS WorldNews2018
SBS may refer to: Broadcasting * SBS Broadcasting Group, Belgium, formerly many countries * Talpa TV, formerly SBS Broadcasting B.V., Netherlands ** SBS6, Dutch television channel ** SBS9, Dutch television channel * Special Broadcasting Service, Australia ** SBS (Australian TV channel) * Seoul Broadcasting System, South Korea ** SBS TV (South Korean TV channel) * Shizuoka Broadcasting System, Japan * Spanish Broadcasting System, US * ''The South Bank Show'', arts television series, UK * Scottish Broadcasting Service, a proposed service Organisations * Satellite Business Systems, a former company * SBS Bank, New Zealand * Save British Science, former name of the Campaign for Science and Engineering * SBS Technologies, owned by GE Automation & Controls * Society for Biomolecular Sciences, a former learned society * SongBird Survival, a United Kingdom organization * Southall Black Sisters, Asian women's group, London, England Military * Special Boat Service, United Kingdom * Specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Grasso
Robert Grasso is an Australian, Sydney-based Sports Editor/Supervising Producer (Sport) with SBS Television. He also serves as a sports anchor for the network's flagship program, SBS World News. Grasso is one of SBS' longest-serving members, having worked on location at some of the station's biggest sporting events including the 2018 FIFA World Cup (Russia), 2014 FIFA World Cup (Brazil), and the 1998 FIFA World Cup (France). He has covered international track & field on location, including the 2001 (Canada) and 2003 (France) IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics. He has reported on Davis Cup tennis around Australia and covered the Australia national soccer team World Cup qualifying campaigns in the Middle East. Career With a degree in Commerce (Marketing), he began his career as a publicist for SBS TV promoting News, Current Affairs and Sport. After attending the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and Max Rowley Media Academy, Grasso embarked on a career in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Gonçalves
Ricardo Jorge Gonçalves (born 24 January 1981) is a Portuguese Australian television journalist and presenter, best known for his work at SBS. Gonçalves is the network's finance editor where he presents a nightly finance report on ''SBS World News'' each weeknight. He also anchors '' SBS World News Late''. Since 2016, Gonçalves has hosted ''Small Business Secrets'', which is produced by Whitney Fitzsimmons. Career Gonçalves commenced his television career at WIN Television in Wollongong, where unpaid work experience led to him becoming a casual ''WIN News'' reporter in 1998 while he was studying commerce at the University of Wollongong. In 1999, Gonçalves set up a website to offer advice to high school students about study techniques which led to Gonçalves assisting Channel 7 current affairs program ''Today Tonight'' with a number of education-related reports. Gonçalves commenced working as a business journalist for finance expert David Koch's production comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''The Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Enus
Anton Albert Enus is a South African-born Australian news presenter. He is currently co-host of ''SBS World News'' on Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). Career Enus presented ''SBS World News Australia'' late edition, which aired on weeknights at 9.30pm until December 2007. Due to the departure of both Mary Kostakidis and Stan Grant as co-hosts of ''SBS World News Australia'', Enus was appointed co-host of the bulletin on 17 December 2007. Enus has been a news presenter and journalist for over 25 years. He has been with ''SBS World News Tonight'' for the past five years, after a 15-year career in radio and television with South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC. Enus' achievements include the CNN World Report award for best international report and the Bokmakierie Award for current affairs. Before leaving South Africa, Enus presented the country's major evening national news bulletin for the SABC. Personal life Enus was a founding member of South Africa's gay and lesbian s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice Petersen
Janice Petersen is an Australian television presenter. Petersen is currently the presenter of ''SBS World News'' on Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). Early life Petersen was born in 1977 to parents of South African lineage in Sydney. She was raised in Woy Woy on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Also grew up with her brother Dale Petersen. Janice lives in Sydney with her partner Julian Hamilton of electronic band The Presets. The couple have two daughters, born in 2010 and 2013. She is a graduate from the University of Newcastle after qualifying for the Bachelor of Communication degree. Career Petersen went to work at SBS in 2000 as a freelance staff person and soon was operating the autocue and writing obscure freelance stories, then moved over to ABC in Adelaide, South Australia as a newsreader after landing a bi-media cadetship. Petersen returned to SBS in 2006 as a sports presenter. Personal life A sports enthusiast, she participated in the high jump, 100 met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Westlake
Nigel Westlake is an Australian composer, musician and conductor. As a composer for the screen, his film credits include the feature films ''Ali's Wedding'', '' Paper Planes'', ''Miss Potter'', ''Babe'', '' Babe: Pig in the City'', '' Children of the Revolution'' and '' The Nugget''. Biography Westlake was born in Perth, Western Australia, the son of clarinettist Donald Westlake. Westlake studied the clarinet with his father, Donald (principal clarinettist, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 1961-1979) and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music. By the age of 17, Westlake was touring Australia and the world, performing as a freelance clarinetist, bass clarinetist and saxophonist with ballet companies, a circus troupe, chamber music ensembles, fusion bands and orchestras. In 1983, Westlake studied bass clarinet and composition in the Netherlands and was appointed composer in residence for ABC Radio National in 1984. From 1987 to 1992 Westlake was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Definition The term is descended from Latin, ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is from Thomas Morley's 1597 ''A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music'', where he says "Some wil be good descanters ..and yet wil be but bad composers". 'Composer' is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms 'songwriter' or ' singer-songwriter' are more often used, particularl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theme Music
Theme music is a musical composition that is often written specifically for radio programming, television shows, video games, or films and is usually played during the title sequence, opening credits, closing credits, and in some instances at some point during the program. The purpose of a theme song is often similar to that of a leitmotif. The phrase theme song or signature tune may also be used to refer to a signature song that has become especially associated with a particular performer or dignitary, often used as they make an entrance. Purpose From the 1950s onwards, theme music, and especially theme songs also became a valuable source of additional revenue for Hollywood film studios, many of which launched their own recording arms. This period saw the beginning of more methodical cross-promotion of music and movies. One of the first big successes, which proved very influential, was the theme song for '' High Noon'' (1952). Celebrities In the early years of radio and tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
