FTA-TV SBS Two

[Dont be a lemon]

It started tonight at 6.00pm in your state/territory. It has replaced the SBS World News Channel. You can find it on free-to-air digital channel 32, Foxtel channel 648 and Austar channel 610.

From what I can see http://www.sbs.com.au/schedule/SBSTWO/ it is non-English language news programming through the day, a simulcast of World News Australia at 6.30pm, and then alternate programming with an emphasis on movies from 7.30pm onward.

 

[that_dood]

Just finished watching 112 Emergency. It wasn't too bad, not really riveting drama but it is something that you could easily get hooked on ala All Saints, Home & Away etc.

Might watch again tomorrow to see if it is something worth watching.

By the way I like what SBS are doing with this channel. It is what you need in a second channel, something to compliment SBS One.

 

[Warsaw]

Isn't Entourage going to be aired on the channel sometime in July. I presume it'd start from the beginning and not from Season 6.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

The 2010 World Cup will be shown on this channel and I believe that the Ashes might also be on this channel later this year.

 

[bears2lions]

It started tonight at 6.00pm in your state/territory. It has replaced the SBS World News Channel. You can find it on free-to-air digital channel 32, Foxtel channel 648 and Austar channel 610.

Channel 648 was a silly place to put it.

I thought as
ABC1 (102)
SBS1 (104)
ABC2 (126)

that SBS2 would be 128

meh!

 

[AdelUniCrowFan]

The 2010 World Cup will be shown on this channel and I believe that the Ashes might also be on this channel later this year.

Ashes can only be shown on SBS1 due to the Ashes being on the anti-siphoning list.

The Tour de France will appear on SBS2 when it clashes with the Ashes.

 

[Smoooothy]

Ashes can only be shown on SBS1 due to the Ashes being on the anti-siphoning list.

The Tour de France will appear on SBS2 when it clashes with the Ashes.

great news for people with split screen capable tv's

 

[dmc333]

SBS will use its new second television channel to provide around-the-clock coverage of next year's soccer World Cup in South Africa.
It will also use the channel to resolve a scheduling clash this winter between two sporting blockbusters: the Ashes test series and the Tour de France.


The digital-only channel SBS TWO began broadcasting last night with Adam Elliot's Oscar-winning Australian animation Harvie Krumpet, which SBS co-funded.


SBS managing director Shaun Brown said one of the major drawcards of the new channel would be more comprehensive sports coverage, including prime time repeats of action from the UEFA Champions League and the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in August, and blanket coverage of next year's FIFA World Cup in South Africa.


"We'll be able to turn that into an event really that will be on 24 hours a day, either on SBS ONE or SBS TWO," he said. "When SBS ONE is running it, there will be an alternative film or documentary on SBS TWO. When SBS TWO is repeating some of the matches from overnight, SBS ONE will be doing its normal schedule."


Similarly, SBS TWO will show the Tour de France while SBS ONE will show the Ashes. When the Ashes is not on, the cycling will screen on SBS ONE.
SBS TWO will replace the SBS World News Channel, which since 2002 has screened repeats of its foreign-language news programs. These will continue to be shown during the day. But the appeal of the channel will be broadened through evening programming such as sport, documentaries and nightly movies beginning at 9pm.


This could unlock a new funding stream for the cash-strapped organisation. While it has been allowed to sell up to five minutes an hour of advertising on its second channel, the audience for the World News Channel has been so small, there has been no demand from advertisers. Mr Brown says that in time, SBS TWO will be more appealing to advertisers.


The broadcaster received no new funding for SBS TWO, which will be available free in every home with a digital television or set-top receiver, forcing SBS management to divert modest resources from other budgets to launch the channel.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/enter...new-sbs-channel/2009/06/01/1243708402562.html

 

[Freo Big Fella]

Did anyone watch Harvie Krumpet when they launched it the other night?

What an awesome little film, was the first time I'd seen it.

 

[XFactor1979]

at the moment its not much use to me

foxtel has 'world movies' - ie all the recently released foreign films

and sbs is focussed on more foreign languages material

theres not much use for that channel at the moment...

it could very well become sbs's SOCCER (minus EPL, socceroos WC qualifiers) channel though

EDIT has anyone noticed that SBS has shown less and less genuinely foreign language material?

the old sbs was known for 1. sleazey films with lots of sex; 2. stuff from obscure countries which were films that contained lots of sex

now they are showing american shows which the commercial stations dont touch - ie madmen, big love (starring bill paxton), and films you catch at the independent film theatre: ie the assassination of richard nixon, the three burials of melquiades estrada

 

[bears2lions]

Some decent European films showing on the channel - two on every night from around 9pm.

I thought The Charlemagne Code (Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen) was alright.

The Norwegians make great films as do the Israelis. Hope SBS Two picks broadcasts more.