| Broadcast area | Australia (national) via AM, FM and satellite |
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| Slogan | "The many voices of one Australia" |
| Frequency | Varies |
| First air date | 1975 |
| Format | Multilingual |
| Owner | Special Broadcasting Service |
| Website | http://www.sbs.com.au/radio |
SBS Radio is a service provided by the Special Broadcasting Service '..to inform, educate and entertain Australians, especially those of non-English speaking backgrounds'. SBS Radio originally began as two stations based in Melbourne and Sydney, set up to provide pre-recorded information about the then-new Medibank health care system in languages other than English. Today the service targets the estimated 2.7 million Australians who speak a language other than English in the home, in addition to more mainstream audiences through programs such as World View and Alchemy[1].
Like SBS Television, SBS Radio supplements its government funding with paid-for information campaigns for government agencies and non-profit organisations as well as commercial advertising and sponsorship.[1]
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Most programs contain a mix of news, current affairs, sport, community information and music relating to a specific ethnic or language group. The exceptions are Alchemy (a youth program), the English language news program World View, and overnight programming from the BBC World Service.
SBS Radio has three services on analogue radio. The first, Radio 1, is transmitted on AM in Wollongong on 1485, and on FM in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, where it is branded as SBS FM 97.7, SBS FM 93.1 and SBS FM 105.5 respectively. The second, Radio 2 and SBS AM, is transmitted on AM in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Wollongong and in branded as SBS AM "XXXX" (where XXXX is the frequency for the city it is transmitted to). The third service is the "National" service, which is composed of material from Radio 1 and Radio 2, and is available throughout the rest of the nation through FM broadcasting (except in Newcastle, where it is available on AM) and on the Optus Aurora satellite. Additionally, a few community stations in areas without dedicated SBS Radio transmitters carry some SBS Radio content.
Both Radio 1 and Radio 2 are also available nationwide through digital terrestrial television, through digital radio services in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, on satellite from free-to-air Optus D1 and Optus B3 C-Band satellite transmissions, and on major subscription television services (such as Foxtel and Austar). The programs available on Radio 1 and Radio 2 vary depending on the platform and the location: for example, digital television in Melbourne plays the same stations as Sydney, while digital radio in Adelaide and Perth largely follow scheduling in Melbourne.
On digital radio in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra, SBS has three additional digital-only services: SBS Chill, a mix of chillout and world music; SBS PopAsia, a mixture of J-pop, K-pop and C-pop; and a relay of the BBC World Service. SBS Chill and SBS PopAsia are also available online.
As of 2010, SBS Radio broadcasts in the following languages. All languages are available on the national service unless otherwise noted.
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