SBS World News Channel
The SBS World News Channel was an Australian television channel broadcast by SBS Television that launched on 12 June 2002. The channel, which used to be available only to digital television viewers in Australia, was the first digital-only multi-channel for the Special Broadcasting Service. The news service was broadcast for eighteen hours per day, seven days a week, retransmitting news from fifteen countries. In between news retransmissions, the channel displayed weather information, news headlines, and some commercial advertising.
| Country | Australia |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nationally |
| Network | SBS Television |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English Various |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 16:9 |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Special Broadcasting Service |
| History | |
| Launched | 12 June 2002 |
| Closed | 1 June 2009 |
| Replaced by | SBS 2 |
| Availability at time of closure | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview | Channel 32 |
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