Putting out an SOS for SBSSBS may be an interesting broadcaster of multicultural programs, but it just doesn’t connect with the mainstream Australian consciousness. It needs to lift its game before it disappears, writes Tim Burrowes.
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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: No Christmas spirit in the public service
Which was the tight-arsed government department that docked everyone’s pay (or forced them to make up the time!) because of some employees leaving five minutes early on Christmas Eve?
A very Crikey Christmas Carolling
Let’s all raise our candles to sing along to our Crikey Christmas carols, including the classic hits ‘Dickheads We Have Heard On Air’ and ‘Oink To The World’, penned by Mel Campbell and Daniel Zugna.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: No Red for Hey Hey?
That black face loving comedy crew down at Hey Hey are returning to our humble screens next year, but will resident grouch Red Symons also return? Plus, news on the Myer renos.
Crikey Says: SBS v Crikey: game on
SBS claims that Crikey is profiting from the term “the world game” by selling our tea towels, socks and other paraphernalia off the back of their brand. To which we say, get your hand off it SBS, we’ve got Kevin Rudd’s pets.
SBS v Crikey: SBS pursues legal action over “the world game”
The battle between SBS and your very own Crikey has progressed, but sadly is about to be aborted by Crikey agreeing to change the tag for that section of its site that has been (until today) aggregating coverage of soccer under the tag “the world game”.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: A less accountable NSW government?
What were the five finalists of the staff pitching competition at the SBS annual Christmas party that made “several jaws hang limp over their seared tuna canapés”? And is the new NSW Premier less open and accountable than Rees?
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: SBS teams with Foxtel
Will SBS, thanks to its highly successful World Movies channel, parter with Foxtel for a new Arts pay-tv channel? Plus, Anna Bligh and a hilariously placed street sign.
Just whose world game is it anyway?
SBS claims that Crikey’s use of a content tag “the world game” on articles about soccer is a breach of its property rights. Can an organisation really own such a common phrase?
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Can the SBS spell the name of the US capital?
Who was clapping yesterday at Tony Abbott’s acceptance speech? Plus, who were Sony’s special guests at last week’s under-watched ARIAS and how does SBS spell the US capital?
New SBS arts channel in the works
Pay-TV arts channel, Ovation, has been given the flick by Foxtel and Austar to make way for a new arts channel from SBS, which hopes to attract a younger and more male demographic.
leaked SBS: Your chance to come up with ideas for us for free!
An internal email from SBS management announces an exciting opportunity for SBS staffers: come up with some TV show ideas, which may or may not be used, and you almost certainly won’t get paid for. Where do we sign up?
SBS sharpen the axe
SBS is chopping and changing its programs with all the trigger-happy reactiveness of a commercial network, says TV Tonight. If it’s not careful, the station may end up accidently giving itself some nasty cuts in the process.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: SBS management are offside
Why is SBS eroding staff conditions while bragging about the millions of ad dollars generated by the World Cup? asks a Crikey tipster. Plus middle-aged army reservists on the frontlines and why it’s not what you know, but who in the WA ALP.
SBS has a Sam Newman moment
The Footy Show rightfully takes a hammering every time one of its stars utters a misogynist remark. So when The Squiz gets sexist on SBS, where is the outrage, asks Michael Winkler.
Battle of the eccentric Greek gardeners
Since cult TV gardener Vasili shunned SBS in favour of community television, the station has answered back by securing a new Greek gardener of its very own: Costa. Is Aussie TV big enough for the two of them? Maresi!
Liberal Rule: historical epoch or chapter of accidents?
Despite what you may have seen on SBS series Liberal Rule, the rise and fall of the Howard government did not represent big shifts in national sentiment, writes Charles Richardson.
Tips and rumours: SBS TV: more commercial than ever
A Crikey tipster writes: The steady descent of SBS TV into commercialism continues. Now all ad breaks are broadcast at noticeably higher volumes than the programs — the technique used by “real” TV stations for years.
Liberal Rule vs. The Howard Years
Does SBS’s new series Liberal Rule provide a better look back at the Howard government than the ABC’s The Howard Years? Peter Brent ranks the retrospectives.
SBS’s Food Investigators gives a big GI tick to sugar
SBS’s Food Investigators contained the startling recommendation that 15-20% of your daily energy intake should come from sugar, writes David Gillespie. Say what?
Tonight the Tour de France surely ignites?
Tonight’s brute of a 223km stage of La Grande Boucle offers any rider outside the Astana team their first realistic moment of truth since the Trans France Express took control of the race on just the fourth day.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Uluru: “a money making exercise on an international scale”
Crikey readers on climbing Ayer’s Rock and the Uighurs.
SBS News used as vehicle for Top Gear
Why did SBS news include a three-minute story on putting automatic stabilisers into Australian cars? Perhaps because it was just a convenient cross-promo for another SBS show.
