MELBOURNE, 23 MAY 2022: Listeners in Australia who want to access non-English foreign news bulletins now have a dedicated free-to-air 24-hour Ch-35, broadcasting in 35 languages, including South Asian languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Bangla, Sinhala, Tamil and Malayalam among others.
This multi-lingual channel in 30 languages will have news bulletins from leading international broadcasters from 30 countries and the locally produced SBS’s Arabic and Mandarin television news bulletins – SBS عربي News and SBS 中文 News. The launch of the channel builds on SBS’ expanding range of multilingual services for audiences across TV, radio and digital platforms. These programs are produced and presented by SBS and are also available to stream live on SBS On Demand.
From 23 May 2022, you can watch SBS WorldWatch on channel 35. If watching on television, SBS WorldWatch is accessible on television sets, or devices using recorders or set-top boxes, which are MPEG-4 compatible. MPEG-4 refers to the compression technology commonly used by broadcasters today for the distribution of high-quality video content. Most television sets made after 2014 use this technology, and in fact many TV channels in Australia are broadcast with it. It allows us to provide a better picture and sound quality.
SBS VICELAND is a MPEG-4 channel, therefore if you currently watch a news bulletin on SBS VICELAND on your television, you can access SBS WorldWatch.
The channel is available to stream live on SBS On Demand.
Programs broadcast on the channel are also available to catch up on SBS On Demand, where there are also additional international news programs available to stream which aren’t shown on television.
