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SBS was founded in 1975 as an experimental radio network, with two stations: 2EA in Sydney and 3EA in Melbourne. It formally came into existence as an independent statutory authority on the 1st of January 1978.
SBS television began full-time transmission at 6:30 pm on the 24th of October 1980, United Nations Day. The first program broadcast was a documentary called Who Are We?, hosted by news presenter Peter Luck.
SBS Radio broadcasts in 74 languages across all Australian states. The network added six new languages in April 2013, including Malayalam, Dinka, Hmong, Pashto, Swahili and Tigrinya, reaching that total.
SBS is a hybrid-funded broadcaster. About 80 percent of its funding comes from tax revenue, with the remainder drawn from government information campaigns and commercial advertising.
South Park, produced by Comedy Central, is SBS's most successful imported television series. It first aired on SBS in 1997.
SBS operates six television channels: SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS World Movies, SBS Food, NITV and SBS WorldWatch. SBS WorldWatch, the most recent, launched on the 23rd of May 2022.