''SBS World News'' is the news service of the

Special Broadcasting Service The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. About 80 percent of funding for the company is derived from the Australian Government. SBS operates six TV channels ( SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS World ...

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.

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was the service's first presenter; veteran newsreader

Mary Kostakidis Mary Kostakidis (born 1954) is an Australian journalist. She is the former weeknight '' SBS World News Australia'' presenter and was the face of SBS over two decades. Early life She was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and migrated to Australia w ...

began reading the weekend news in 1986. The network's long-running investigative documentary series ''

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'' 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 News Australia'' was relaunched in its current one-hour format in January 2007 taking over the timeslot of '' Toyota World Sport'' and signing

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correspondent Stan Grant to co-present alongside

. The merger between the two programs took place as a result of a claimed drop-off in viewers between programs, when a solid block of advertising would be shown. As a result, the relaunch saw the introduction of commercial breaks during the bulletin. The new bulletin format has since lost viewers, with the late bulletin often out-rating the flagship 6.30 bulletin; most of this has been attributed to the perceived commercialisation of the bulletin by the SBS Board. A dispute between longtime presenter

and the network arose in August 2007, when she walked out of the network in frustration at what she saw as increased commercialisation at the network, and a shift away from the original values of both the news service and the station in general. It was widely speculated that Kostakidis' contract stipulated she would be the network's main news presenter, and maintain editorial control over bulletins, somewhat altered by World News Australia's change in format. Kostakidis took legal action against SBS for breach of contract. In 2009, World News Channel was replaced with

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which became

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in 2016. In February 2014, ''World News Australia'' was relaunched with new graphics along with a name, ''SBS World News''. In 2017 SBS World News was upgraded with a new set and improved website. The program can now be streamed on th
SBS News website
as well as the SBS News app.

Theme music

From 1980 to 1991, ''Processional Fanfare'' by the

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was used as the main

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. Since 1991, the ''World News'' and ''World News Australia'' themes have been written by Australian composer

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Bulletins

SBS World News

''SBS World News'', nightly at 6.30pm is Australia's only locally-produced news bulletin that focuses on world events. It is presented by

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from Sunday to Thursday, and

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 weeknig ...

on Fridays and Saturdays. Finance is presented by

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 ''SB ...

on weeknights. Fill in presenters for the bulletin include:

and Darren Mara (News);

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, Mariana Rudan and Lucy Zelić (Sport); and Catalina Flórez, Virginia Langeberg or Darren Mara (Finance)

SBS World News Late

''SBS World News Late'' was originally known as ''World News at Nine'' (reflecting its original 9:00pm position), then as ''World News Tonight'' when it moved to 9:30pm. It no longer has any branding distinct from the main 6:30pm bulletin. In 2012, the bulletin moved to a later timeslot of 10:30pm. Regular presenters for this bulletin include

, Darren Mara and Catalina Flórez. Occasional presenters for the bulletin include Virginia Langeberg and Lin Evlin. Previous presenters include

, Ben Fajzullin, Neena Mairata, Amrita Cheema,

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and PJ Madam.

Former bulletins

World News Australia Online

Until its end in August 2006, the specially produced online news bulletins were presented by Ashleigh Nghiem. The online bulletins have since been replaced by stand-alone reports.

Radio

SBS radio news bulletins are broadcast throughout the day - including the flagship national bulletins, but also feature more national and international news stories.

National bulletins

The main national bulletins are broadcast on

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on the hour, 24 hours a day, SBS World News Radio airs weekdays from 6am and 6pm on SBS Radio 1. National bulletins air on SBS Radio broadcasts the foreign-language news bulletins on SBS World News Australia Radio.

Former presenters

Former presenters of World News Australia include Mary Kostakidis and Stan Grant, who both departed in 2007, Amrita Cheema who resigned in June 2008 and Ben Fajzullin who resigned in 2010. In October 2010, it was announced that Neena Mairata would leave SBS due to cost-cutting measures. In 1999, Susanne Annabellem Robinson and Micahel both filled in on the World tonight, "soccer" Tennis, golf.. In 2018

Lee Lin Chin Lee Lin Chin is an Indonesian-born Australian television, radio presenter and journalist, best known for her association with the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) network and was the weekend presenter of ''SBS World News''. Lee Lin has been ...

announced her resignation from SBS; she had worked for almost 40 years with SBS.

Website and app

There is also an app and website called ''SBS News''.

References

External links

* {{World news channels Australian television news shows Special Broadcasting Service original programming Special Broadcasting Service