Where We Heart TV Too, An Australian Television Resource
This new six part series on SBS is all about the lives of those 20 something year olds still living at home, more commonly referred to as Generation Y.
The series follows the conditions of three different families with the children given the challenge of moving out of home, with two groups the over 25 year [...]
Popularity: 7% [?]
June 28th, 2008 | Danny | 2 comments | Continued
Wednesday is a strange day for this, but SBS has had a re-launch of its identity today, with a new logo and new on air presentation. From the first signs of the new look its is looking fantastic, a vast improvement on what the public broadcaster was offering previously, and dare I say it even [...]
Popularity: 13% [?]
May 7th, 2008 | Danny | 3 comments | Continued
Downunder Grads is a new four part series screening on SBS which will follow the lives of university students at the University of Queensland, narrated by Deborah Mailman who you may know from The Secret Life of Us.
The series looks at the university life through the eyes of first year students and how this university life [...]
Popularity: 13% [?]
March 5th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Today was a historic occasion for Australia with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd saying sorry to Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders for the Stolen Generations. To mark this occasion all five television networks broadcasted the speech live around the country using the same feed provided by the ABC.
The ABC1 coverage started at 9am with Tony Jones [...]
Popularity: 56% [?]
February 13th, 2008 | Danny | 4 comments | Continued
In case you don’t know, in America at the moment they are in the middle of nominating candidates for each respective party. February 5th was know as Super Tuesday as it was the day where most of the states voted for their representative.
SBS had a special version of World News Australia to cover the event, [...]
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February 7th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Today a little off track with what What’s On The Tube is usually all about with a look at the American Football (NFL) Superbowl. The Superbowl in Australia is broadcasted on SBS, and will be the last time as the NFL rights have gone to Network Ten’s Ten HD channel.
SBS had its own presenter Ed [...]
Popularity: 14% [?]
February 4th, 2008 | Danny | 5 comments | Continued
Now for the final look at the 2007 election coverage and this time the low fan fair from Network Ten and SBS. I must apologise my SBS files were deleted so I’m unable to show SBS coverage (not that it was that exciting anyway) so below will just be some of the Ten coverage which [...]
Popularity: 23% [?]
November 25th, 2007 | Danny | 1 comment | Continued
Shaun Micallef hosts this new comedy news program on SBS which premiered at 10pm Wednesday night. This is a show you will either simply love or hate, and to love it you need to understand the witty humor of Shaun Micallef.
Another thing that would not concern the average viewer is the set used for the [...]
Popularity: 12% [?]
October 11th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Day one of APEC the coverage was mostly centred around the activities of US president George W. Bush. As reported earlier in the day the ABC, Seven and Nine broke regular programing to show John Howard and George Bush’s press conference live.
The Afternoon News:
Channel Seven’s, Seven News had the most extensive coverage with roughly ten [...]
Popularity: 34% [?]
September 5th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
The SBS World News Channel is a channel dedicated to showing news bulletins from around the world in languages other than English, and can be found on digital channel 33. The channel first started in June 2002 and has not really changed at all in terms of presentation since it started.
Popularity: 20% [?]
Popularity: 20% [?]
July 8th, 2007 | Danny | 1 comment | Continued
SBS will re-name its digital services, taking effect from Monday June 4th. This will mean that digital television users will need to re-scan their channel’s for the name change to take effect. The official press release from SBS below…
What’s happening to the SBS Digital Channels?
The SBS digital channel names are changing in an effort to [...]
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May 31st, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Today a look at the theme music for the five news services on Australian free to air television. Click the play buttons below to hear the news theme.
ABC News…
ABC’s flagship bulletin is at 7pm nightly and has a state focus rather than a city focus.
Popularity: 23% [?]
Popularity: 23% [?]
May 4th, 2007 | Danny | 10 comments | Continued
Another feature of digital television in Australia is the Video Program Guide (VPG), which runs on a separate channel of its own. All three of the commercial networks have their own VPG and the ABC has their own as well which runs on ABC2 when no programs are on late at night. SBS used to also have [...]
Popularity: 33% [?]
May 1st, 2007 | Danny | 2 comments | Continued
Whether you hate them or love them, they are here to stay, some have even been the cause of making a perminate print on plasma screens. They are Watermarks, and i’ve decided to upload them to see what people think…
Popularity: 4% [?]
Popularity: 4% [?]
September 1st, 2006 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Yesterday I showed a comparison between ACA and Today Tonight, today I have example’s of the various networks news presentations.
ABC News has a very simple set which polishes up well. Obviously this is the Victorian ABC News, other states sets look the same i think but with the state name different over the presenters left [...]
Popularity: 17% [?]
August 31st, 2006 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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