Over time this web site has changed in appearance.
Due to historical interest we now show you the style of our early web site.
From our scratchy but passionate inception on the web sometime around late April / early May 2007, the SaveOurSBS.org web site used the Patriotic Theme (which we modified) and was powered by WordPress. [...]
Posted on 31 December, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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The SBS policies of each party explained:
What are the policies of the political parties about SBS funding and advertising on SBS?
Save Our SBS wrote to the each of the major political parties requesting them to tell us their party policies on SBS for publication on www.SaveOurSBS.org.
We asked a series of questions covering SBS funding and [...]
Posted on 11 October, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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SaveOurSBS recently received the blog below about one families history of viewing SBS from its opening in 1980 until now.
“SBS: A Sad Death of Great Television” by Derek Kell
We started watching SBS on the first day of its transmission. Nearly all the programmes at that time [...]
Posted on 7 September, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Sign the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government. Click http://petition.saveoursbs.org and wait while you are redirected [...]
Posted on 5 September, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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SaveOurSBS has been granted permission to re-publish the story below in full by Quentin Dempster. It originally appeared in The Australian 23 August 2007.
“SBS debate: 4th commercial network?” by Quentin Dempster
THE Zampatti board at SBS has embarked on a strategy to turn SBS television into Australia’s fourth commercial channel.
In the January issue of B&T, the [...]
Posted on 3 September, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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The purpose of this Category is to report on industrial issues that may affect staff at SBS. If what you want to say is not really an industrial matter, please look at placing your blog in another Category where it may be more appropriate. Although Save Our SBS is not aligned with any political party [...]
Posted on 26 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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According to media reports Mary Kostakidis has walked out on SBS.
Save Our SBS has been inundated with blog comments and emails from people who are supportive of Mary Kostakidis in her stand against the commercialisation of SBS. We publish some of those comments below and invite all bloggers who support Mary Kostakidis to post [...]
Posted on 22 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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What Is Happening With The Petition?
In the first month since we launched the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government, we clocked up some 1500 signatures. Everyone at www.SaveOurSBS.org has been very encouraged. We had had virtually no publicity until the last of these [...]
Posted on 16 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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SaveOurSBS has been granted permission to re-publish the story below in full by Michael Shmith. It originally appeared in The Age on 10 February 2007.
“Dear SBS: ad breaks just don’t hold water” by Michael Shmith
A good 25 years ago, when SBS was still called Channel 0 and ran series such as Three Women and their [...]
Posted on 13 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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I went along to the world premiere of the Steve Thomas documentary “Hope” on Friday as part of Melbourne International Film Festival. The documentary, which screened to a full house, tells largely in her own words the courageous and tragic story of the subject, Amal Basry an Iraqi survivor of the SIEV X sinking in [...]
Posted on 12 August, 2007 by Bill
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Sign the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government. Click http://petition.saveoursbs.org and wait while you are redirected [...]
Posted on 7 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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SaveOurSBS has been granted permission to re-publish the story below in full by Quentin Dempster. It originally appeared in the July 2007 edition of the Walkley Magazine.
“Come Clean On Commercialisation” by Quentin Dempster
With the federal election campaign already in full swing Quentin Dempster previews the policy debate about the future of public broadcasting.
“Stiff and stiffer.” [...]
Posted on 7 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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On Sunday 5 August 2007 Save Our SBS handed out the double sided sosbs-petition-brochure.pdf (76kb) to the general public at Melbourne’s Federation Square. Many people showed enthusiastic interest. A media release of the event is available here: MEDIA RELEASE: Launch Web Petition To Stop Ads On SBS - Fed Square [...]
Posted on 5 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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DOWNLOAD the double sided sosbs-petition-brochure.pdf (76kb) here. Print it several times. Give it to your friends, retailers and others.
Posted on 5 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Tell Others About Save Our SBS
DOWNLOAD the double sided sosbs-petition-brochure.pdf (76kb) here. Print it several times. Give it to your friends, retailers and others.
EMAIL the message below to all your friends and colleagues etc.
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Like most people, I am annoyed by the ads interrupting programs on SBS-TV. SBS is a public broadcaster, paid for [...]
Posted on 5 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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To download any of the Save Our SBS Media Releases and other publicity material published by us please look for the individual Posts reverse date order in the Category SOSBS Media Releases & Publicity Material. You might also like to look at the Category Help Promote Us on this web site.
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Posted on 5 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Sign the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government. Click http://petition.saveoursbs.org and wait while you are redirected [...]
Posted on 26 July, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Sign the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government. Click http://petition.saveoursbs.org and wait while you are redirected [...]
Posted on 25 July, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Sign the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government. Click http://petition.saveoursbs.org and wait while you are redirected [...]
Posted on 11 July, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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What are the policies of the candidates and political parties about SBS funding and advertising on SBS?
Could SBS be saved as a result of the 2007 federal election?
Let us know what you think. Write your comments below.
A Comment may or may not be published for others to read. To write a Comment about [...]
Posted on 1 July, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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This Category is intended for SBS staff to express their views anonymously if desired.
If you do or did work at SBS or a close friend or member of your family is or was employed by SBS you may want to tell others about what has been happening inside SBS. You can tell your story [...]
Posted on 28 June, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Sign the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government. Click http://petition.saveoursbs.org and wait while you are redirected [...]
Posted on 16 May, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Sign the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government. Click http://petition.saveoursbs.org and wait while you are redirected [...]
Posted on 9 May, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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In late 2006 SBS-TV began interrupting programs for advertisements and promos. However SBS is a public broadcaster and is funded by the tax payer. Many people are annoyed that SBS now interrupts programs for ad breaks. What do you think? Is it right? Did you prefer it before when SBS placed all the ads between [...]
Posted on 30 April, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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In this section you can read material written by Contributors. Contributors usually write more detailed articles than other ‘bloggers’. Some may write on a regular basis. No one is paid to write for SOSBS.
Most Contributors write elsewhere and are invited by SOSBS to do so here. If you are a writer and would like [...]
Posted on 30 April, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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SBS radio has been broadcasting advertisements on its radio services for years even though SBS is a public broadcaster and is funded by the tax payer. What do you think? Is it right? Are the ads on SBS radio intrusive?
You can tell us your opinion below. You may want to make a general observation [...]
Posted on 30 April, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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If you have noticed any programs on SBS-TV that were not interrupted for commercial breaks, please give your feedback here. Tell us the name of the program, the date and time it went to air on SBS, and, which languages it was in. What did you think of the program? Was it easier to watch [...]
Posted on 30 April, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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If you have noticed any programs on SBS-TV where the ad break(s) looked like they were ‘forced’ into the program and seemed un-naturally placed, please give your feedback here. Tell us the name of the program, the date and time it went to air on SBS, and, which languages it was in. What did you [...]
Posted on 30 April, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Sign the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government. Click http://petition.saveoursbs.org and wait while you are redirected [...]
Posted on 30 April, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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