World Watch#Bulletins
{{Short description|Australian television news block}}
{{About|the television block|the television channel|SBS WorldWatch|other uses|Worldwatch (disambiguation){{!}}Worldwatch}}
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SBS Viceland (2009–present)
SBS WorldWatch (2022–present)
| first_aired = {{start date|1993|8|24|df=y}}{{cite web|title=Monday 23 August 1993 — MELBOURNE|url=https://televisionau.com/classic-tv-guides/tv230893|website=Television.AU|accessdate=6 June 2019}}
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World Watch, or WorldWatch, is a programming block on SBS and SBS Viceland, and a standalone television channel in Australia, that carries news bulletins from countries around the world. The World Watch service gives viewers the opportunity to see news bulletins in their native language. The majority of these bulletins are produced by public or state broadcasters.
History
The WorldWatch program began on 24 August 1993 with news bulletins from the People's Republic of China, the United States, Germany and Russia.
In June 2002, SBS launched the SBS World News Channel, providing repeats of aired bulletins on SBS in addition to updated bulletins.
In October 2003, Filipino, Vietnamese and Arabic were added to the World Watch schedule. However, the Vietnamese service was controversial as the broadcaster chosen was the government-controlled VTV4, which was seen as deeply offensive and seen as propaganda to many Vietnamese Australians who fled after the Vietnam War.{{cite web|last=Gibbs|first=Stephen|title=Crunch time for SBS over Vietnamese news bulletin|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/01/1070127351359.html?from=storyrhs|work=The Age|publisher=Fairfax Media|date=2 December 2003}} It was quickly removed on 17 October.{{cite web|title=A brief history of SBS (Archived) |url=http://www20.sbs.com.au/sbscorporate/index.php?id=1201 |work=Special Broadcasting Service |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070302020843/http://www20.sbs.com.au/sbscorporate/index.php?id=1201 |archivedate=2 March 2007 }}
In 2009, SBS replaced the World News Channel with SBS 2 (now SBS Viceland), and the bulletins also moved to the new channel under the "World Watch" banner. Bulletins air from 6:00am to 6:00pm, whereas SBS airs the bulletins between 5:00am and 1:30pm.
In 2010, SBS added three new languages: Portuguese, Urdu and Hindi.
In October 2015, SBS added eleven new bulletins to the World Watch schedule: African English, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Nepali, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhalese, Somali, Tamil and Thai; and created an English language line-up on SBS, which moved the Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin bulletins from SBS to SBS 2.{{cite web|last=Sainsbury|first=Zoe|title=SBS to bring more breaking international news & culture to TV|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/radio/article/2015/10/06/sbs-bring-more-breaking-international-news-culture-tv|work=SBS Radio|publisher=Special Broadcasting Service|date=6 October 2015}}
Usually, before a WorldWatch bulletin, an intro animation revealing the city and country of origin of the bulletin, sometimes also including the full title of the bulletin, is shown, as well as a disclaimer, which, following the previously mentioned backlash over the choice of Vietnamese news broadcasts, explains that the bulletin may not reflect the network's standards and may include distressing content.
After a bulletin ends, information about other airtimes for that bulletin and airtimes for the bulletin language's SBS Radio program are shown, explained by a voiceover in the bulletin's native language. If the bulletin is in English, then no relevant information as mentioned is shown.
In early 2022, SBS announced that they are relocating most of non-English news bulletins from the World Watch programming block into their newly launched in-house news channel SBS WorldWatch, which launched on 23 May 2022, along with SBS-produced local news in both Arabic and Mandarin (which the latter two was premiered early on SBS On Demand since earlier that year), as both SBS and SBS Viceland are making some space for special events such as live sports that has been interrupt World Watch news bulletins (see below), although English news bulletins from international news channels (not to be confused with SBS-produced SBS World News) are still available to watch in the morning and midday.{{cite web|title=SBS WorldWatch|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/sbs-worldwatch|website=SBS Corporate|publisher=Special Broadcasting Service|access-date=May 23, 2022}}
Bulletins
In determining the World Watch schedule, the policy of SBS has been to match the selection of news programs with the ethnic composition of the Australian population. The World Watch schedule includes news bulletins from Armenia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, France, Fiji, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Malta, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The programs are usually broadcast unedited, and between the times of 2:30 am and mid-afternoon. However, SBS does edit programs under "exceptional circumstances"{{cite web |title=FAQ's – World Watch |url=http://www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/faqs/index/id/95/h/World-Watch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802131104/http://www.sbs.com.au:80/aboutus/faqs/index/id/95/h/World-Watch |archive-date=2 August 2019 |access-date=10 March 2022 |work=Special Broadcasting Service}} where it breaches broadcasting regulations and its Codes of Practices. In addition, commercials and sponsorship messages are edited out, while the end of the program will also be cut out when the program runs overtime in its timeslot. Also, due to SBS broadcast rights to certain sporting events, particular bulletins can be axed from schedule to allow airtime for the sporting events. Very rarely does SBS ever fill in broadcast gaps with WorldWatch bulletins.
In case that SBS does not receive the program on time, the program's timeslot would be filled with either its WeatherWatch program or English-language programming from DW-TV in Germany.{{cite web|title=SBS World Watch Intro for no news from ERT, Greece.|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHOsTtOyoI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/mLHOsTtOyoI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}
= Current bulletins =
==English News bulletins==
| class="wikitable"
! Network ! Country of origin ! Network/Broadcaster ! Program name |
| rowspan="13" |SBS
| {{flag|Australia}} | APAC Network | APAC Weekly |
| {{flag|France}}
| PrimeNews Paris |
| {{flag|Germany}}
| DW (DW English) | DW News |
| {{Flag|India}}
| News Night |
| {{flag|Japan}}
| NHK (NHK World-Japan) |
| {{Flag|Philippines}} |
| {{flag|Qatar}}
| News |
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| rowspan="2" | BBC (BBC One/BBC News) | BBC News at Six{{cite web |title=BBC News at Six news joins SBSs morning World Watch line-up |url=http://www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/news-media-releases/view/id/1810/h/BBC-News-at-Six-news-joins-SBSs-morning-World-Watch-line-up |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117175950/http://www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/news-media-releases/view/id/1810/h/BBC-News-at-Six-news-joins-SBSs-morning-World-Watch-line-up |archive-date=17 November 2017 |access-date= |website=SBS Media Centre |publisher=Special Broadcasting Service |accessdate=10 March 2022}} |
| BBC News at Ten |
| rowspan="4" | {{flag|United States}}
| rowspan="2" | PBS |
| Washington Week |
| rowspan="2" | ABC |
| This Week |
| rowspan="10" |SBS Viceland
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Canada}} | APTN | APTN National News Weekend |
| CBC (CBC TV/CBC News Network) |
| {{Flag|Fiji}}
| FBC News |
| {{flag|France}}
|Eye on Africa |
| {{flag|Germany}}
| DW (DW English) | Global Us |
| {{flag|Qatar}}
| Newshour |
| {{flag|Turkey}}
| Newshour |
| {{flag|New Zealand}}
|Te Ao with Moana |
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|United States}}
| ABC |
| Indian Country Today
| ICT Newscast |
==Non-English News bulletins on [[SBS WorldWatch]]==
{{See also|SBS WorldWatch#News bulletins}}
| class="wikitable"
! Language ! Country of origin ! Network/Broadcaster ! Program name |
| rowspan="2" | Arabic
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|France}} | rowspan="2" | France 24 | نشرةالأخبار (Nashrat Al'akhbar) |
| صباح فرانس 24 (Sabah France 24) |
| Armenian
| {{flag|Armenia}} | ARMTV | Լուրեր (Lurer) |
| Bengali
| {{flag|Bangladesh}} | সংবাদ (Sambāda) |
| Bosnian
| {{flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} | Dnevnik |
| Croatian
| {{flag|Croatia}} |
| Dutch
| {{flag|Netherlands}} |
| Filipino
| {{flag|Philippines}} | ABS-CBN (Kapamilya Channel), A2Z (via TFC) |
| rowspan="2" | French
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|France}} |
| France 24
|Paris Direct |
| German
| {{flag|Germany}} | ZDF |
| Greek
| {{flag|Greece}} |ΕΡΤ Ειδήσεις (ERT Eidiseis) |
| Gujarati
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|India}} |ઇવનિંગ ન્યૂઝ (Evening News) |
| Hindi
| Aaj Tak |नॉनस्टॉप 100 (Top 100 News; {{abbr|lit.|literally}} Nonstop 100) |
| Indonesian
| {{flag|Indonesia}} | TVRI (TVRI National) |
| Italian
| {{flag|Italy}} | TG1 |
| Japanese
| {{flag|Japan}} | NHK (NHK G via NHK World Premium) |
| Korean
| {{flag|South Korea}} | YTN (via YTN WORLD) | 뉴스N이슈 (News N Issue) |
| Macedonian
| {{flag|North Macedonia}} |
| Malayalam
| {{flag|India}} | DD (DD Malayalam) | വാർത്തകൾ (Vārttakaḷ) |
| Maltese
| {{flag|Malta}} | L-Aħbarijiet |
| Nepali
| {{flag|Nepal}} | नेपाल टेलिभिजन समाचार (Nepal Television News) |
| Polish
| {{flag|Poland}} |
| Portuguese
| {{flag|Portugal}} | RTP (RTP1 via RTP Internacional) |
| Punjabi
| {{flag|India}} | PTC News | PTC News |
| Romanian
| {{flag|Romania}} | Telejurnal |
| Serbian
| {{flag|Serbia}} | Дневник 2 (Dnevnik 2) |
| Sinhalese
| {{flag|Sri Lanka}} | රූපවාහිනී ප්රවෘත්ති (Rupavahini News) |
| Spanish
| {{flag|Spain}} | RTVE (La 1 via TVE Internacional) |
| Tamil
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|India}} | செய்திகள் (Ceytikaḷ) |
| Telugu
|DD (DD Yadagiri) |వార్తలు (Vārtalu) |
| Thai
| {{flag|Thailand}} | Thai PBS | Thai PBS News |
| Turkish
| {{flag|Turkey}} | Öǧle Ana Haber |
| Ukrainian
| {{flag|Ukraine}} | Suspilne News |
| Urdu
| {{flag|Pakistan}} | PTV (PTV Home/PTV News via PTV Global) | Khabarnama |
= Currently suspended =
| class="wikitable"
!Language !Country of origin !Broadcaster !Program |
| English
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|China}} | CGTN{{efn|name=CHN}} | The World Today |
| Mandarin
| CCTV (CCTV-4){{efn|In early 2021, SBS suspended its Chinese-sourced Mandarin and English bulletins from CCTV and CGTN in response to a complaint from a human rights group that the channels were broadcasting "forced confessions."{{Cite web|title=SBS suspends Chinese-sourced news programming after receiving human rights complaint|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/sbs-suspends-chinese-sourced-news-programming-after-receiving-human-rights-complaint|access-date=2021-03-21|website=SBS News|language=en}} CGTN bulletin for 6:30am timeslot was later replaced with English-language Deutsche-Welle bulletin instead.|name=CHN}} | 中国新闻 (China News) |
| English
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Russia}} | Russia Today{{efn|Programming from NTV and Russia Today was suspended on 25 February 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine following feedback from Russian-speaking viewers. However, Russian-language programmes are still being offered on SBS Radio.{{cite web|title=Statement from SBS regarding acquired Russian TV news programming|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/statement-from-sbs-regarding-acquired-russian-tv-news-programming|website=SBS Corporate|publisher=Special Broadcasting Service|accessdate=27 February 2022}}|name=RUS}} | Live simulcast |
| Russian
| NTV{{efn|name=RUS}} | Сегодня (Segodnya) |
= Former bulletins =
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References
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External links
- [http://www.sbs.com.au/news/ Official Site for SBS World News]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20030803233449/http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/worldwatch.php World Watch on SBS World News Australia]
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