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Television Broadcasting in Australia began on the 16th Of September , 1956 in Black And White at TCN-9 in Sydney , and has since expanded to include a broad range of public, commercial, community, subscription, narrowcast and amateur stations across the country. Colour Television was introduced in 1975 , while Subscription Television , on the Galaxy platform, began in the mid 1990s . Digital Terrestrial Television was introduced on January 1 , 2001 in Australia 's five largest capital cities. PUBLIC TELEVISION Australia has three national public broadcasters, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , the Special Broadcasting Service , as well as more recently, National Indigenous Television . Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Television is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , established in 1956 . ABC TV and ABC2 are available nationally, in addition to the Australia Network , focused at the Asia-Pacific region. ABC TV carries a variety of local and national news, current affairs, and sports coverage, as well as Australian arts and comedy programming. It is well known for broadcasting British programming, primarily from the BBC , ITV , and Channel 4 . Special Broadcasting Service SBS Television is a division of the Special Broadcasting Service , founded to provide for the estimated 20% of Australians that speak a language other than English in the home, aiming to complement the ABC . In recent years SBS TV has began to target a broader cross-section of the Australian community, in part because of the emergence of specialty subscription television channels aimed at such minorities. In addition to its free-to-air channels, SBS also has an interest in the World Movies Channel . SBS shows many non-English language films with English subtitles, and each morning shows news bulletins in foreign languages from around the world in its ''WorldWatch'' timeslot. In addition to this, a great deal of programming from the PBS , Arte , BBC and CBC , and even Comedy Central are shown. Acquired entertainment programs includes the US animated series '' South Park '', '' Queer As Folk '' and '' Inspector Rex ''. In addition to news and current affairs programming such as SBS World News and Dateline , the network also commissions locally-produced documentaries, movies and comedy programs. Less-popular mainstream sports such as soccer, cycling and athletics are also shown. The World News Channel has been available since June 2002 . The channel shows news bulletins in languages other than English including Indonesian , French , Cantonese , Mandarin , Arabic , and German , amongst others. National Indigenous Television National Indigenous Television , funded by the Commonwealth Of Australia , is produced in Sydney and broadcast via Imparja Television 's existing satellite capacity. COMMERCIAL TELEVISION |
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