|
|
Save Our SBS, Thursday, 11 May, 2023
Last October the federal government announced five-year funding for SBS. That begins on 1 July this year. Previously SBS was funded on a triennial basis.
In the budget handed down this week, existing short-term funding for key language services and audio description will continue into base government funding.
A spokesperson for SBS said:
SBS welcomes the continuity and stability which the five-year funding model provides, ensuring that we are able to keep delivering our vital services for all Australians and especially multilingual and First Nations communities.
The parliament appropriated to SBS $316.8m this year up to 30 June.
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Saturday, 21 April, 2012
From time to time Save Our SBS archives the Home page. This is how it looked on 21 April 2012, less than two weeks before the government was to announce future funding for the SBS https://saveoursbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SaveOurSBS.org-HOME-page-Archive-21-April-2012.htm
Save Our SBS, Monday, 24 August, 2009
The Home Page of the SaveOurSBS.org website is archived from time to time for historical purposes. In August 2009 the website was updated to the Atahualpa Theme. To see a snapshot of the updated Home Page with the then new Atahualpa Theme on 24 August 2009 click https://saveoursbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/SaveOurSBS.org_ArchiveHomePage24August2009.htm
Save Our SBS, Monday, 24 August, 2009
In August 2009 the SaveOurSBS.org website was updated.
The original Patriotic Theme had served its purpose since April 2007 and the old was replaced on 12 August 2009 with the newer Atahualpa Theme that had been specifically tailored for SaveOurSBS.org
This new site looks cleaner and fresher. It is now more user friendly for viewing, printing, mobile devices and a range of other services. An HTM archived copy of the Home
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Sunday, 10 May, 2009
The Home Page of the SaveOurSBS.org website is archived from time to time for historical purposes. To see how the Home Page looked on 10 May 2009 click https://saveoursbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/saveoursbsorg-archive-home-page-10-may-2009.htm
Save Our SBS, Monday, 31 December, 2007
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. That Theme was in use from mid 2007 up to early 2008.
Our very first campaign, the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government, commenced, July 2007. Initially we had no
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Thursday, 1 November, 2007
Below are some of the very first references and links made about Save Our SBS by other organisations and main stream media.
A CERTAIN SCRIBE: “Dylan’s true legacy is before us” by Errol Simper (The Australian 16 August 2007). We believe that Errol Simpers story was the first reference in main stream media about Save Our SBS.
“Network to blame for anchor’s loss” by Errol Simper (The Australian 22 August 2007)
“Save martyr Mary from SBS idiocy” by Geoff Roach (The Advertiser — Sunday Mail 25 August 2007)
“SBS: public service broadcasting
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Thursday, 11 October, 2007
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 advertising. We wanted to know whether or not each party had a policy to ban all advertising on SBS; or, insist that SBS restrict ads to between programs only; or, leave the current arrangement of
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Friday, 7 September, 2007
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 were sourced from overseas and carried subtitles, but they were really interesting programmes. SBS transmitted on channel 0 in the VHF band in those days. In our part of Sydney the reception was very weak resulting in
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Wednesday, 5 September, 2007
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 to the petition server.
SaveOurSBS
How Is SBS Funded?
SBS is a public broadcaster.
Most of the funding for SBS is from the Federal Government which has remained fairly steady in recent years. Funding from
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Monday, 3 September, 2007
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 advertising industry magazine, SBS commercial director Richard Finlayson confirmed SBS was out “to position SBS as Australia’s fourth commercial network”.
This helped to explain why the board last year obtained legal advice from external counsel to overturn a 15-year-old internal
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Sunday, 26 August, 2007
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 or group we do however support organised, collective bargaining and believe that all employees ought to be treated fairly and with respect.
If your comment truly relates to an SBS industrial issue, and may be of
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Wednesday, 22 August, 2007
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 their own blog below (in preference to emailing us). A petition has been organised independently of www.SaveOurSBS.org and we agree with the petition to support Mary Kostakidis. We suggest you sign that petition as well as
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Thursday, 16 August, 2007
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 and only fairly limited publicity at that. People have mainly heard about us mainly via email (from other people who have signed), search engines, links from other web sites, our own brochure and word
Click here to read the full story . . .
Save Our SBS, Monday, 13 August, 2007
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 Hot-Dog Stand, it had the curious habit of interrupting films halfway through with promotions for other films and programs. At the time, I was editing The Age Green Guide, and we ran a small campaign to ban the break. The network’s
Click here to read the full story . . .
|
|
