Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) - Australian Television Archive

SBS - The Beginning (1980)

How it all began for SBS back in 1980. Could you find anyone better to welcome you to multicultural television than the man who welcomed everyone to television itself some 24 years prior, Bruce Gyngell?

Channel 0/28 (as it was known then) had conducted test transmissions on ABC in 1979 and launched officially on 24 October 1980, United Nations Day - broadcasting on both VHF channel 0 and UHF channel 28 in Sydney and Melbourne.

Launch (2702kb) The Beginning (3053kb)

Original Theme (462kb) Pilot Theme(350kb)

Network 0/28 (1983)

Channel 0/28 changed name to Network 0/28 on 14 October 1983 to coincide with the channel's first expansion outside of Sydney and Melbourne. The new name kept the "0/28" component even though the new transmissions were were only on UHF (Channel 28 (Canberra) & 58 (Goulburn and Cooma, NSW)).

Clip 1 (1120kb) Long (1991kb)

Vocal (235kb) Part vocal (119kb)

SBS - Discover the Difference (1985)

When Network 0/28 became SBS...

Clip 1 (667kb)