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Special Broadcasting Service Corporation Annual Report 2019-20

Appendix 7 - SBS Radio Schedules

SBS Radio 1¹

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6am	BBC World Service	BBC World Service	BBC World Service	BBC World Service	BBC World Service	BBC World Service	BBC World Service
7am	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin
8am	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin
9am	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese
10am	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese
11am	Croatian	Croatian	Dinka	Croatian	Croatian	Dinka	Hebrew
12pm	Macedonian	Macedonian	Macedonian	Macedonian	Macedonian	Slovenian	Hebrew/Yiddish
1pm	NITV Radio	French	NITV Radio	French	NITV Radio	French	French
2pm	Polish	Romanian	Polish	Estonian	Polish	Hungarian	Polish
3pm	Serbian	Serbian	Khmer	Serbian	Khmer	Serbian	Bosnian
4pm	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek
5pm	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek
6pm	Tigrinya	Armenian	Finnish	Tigrinya	Bulgarian	Albanian	SBS Chill
7pm	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese
8pm	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese
9pm	Korean	Korean	Korean	Korean	Korean	SBS Chill	SBS Chill
10pm	Amharic	Japanese	Samoan	Japanese	Amharic	Japanese	Samoan
11pm	Overnight Programming²

Notes:

Sydney, Canberra and Wollongong, and Melbourne AM; digital radio; online – sbs.com.au/radio; digital TV; and SBS Radio app.
Overnight programming: BBC World Service (in a variety of languages).

SBS Radio 2¹

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6am	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	BBC Arabic	BBC Arabic
7am	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	BBC Arabic	BBC Arabic
8am	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian
9am	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian
10am	Filipino	Filipino	Filipino	Filipino	Filipino	Filipino	Filipino
11am	Sinhalese	Sinhalese	Dutch	Sinhalese	Sinhalese	Dutch	Hmong
12pm	Russian	Maltese	Portuguese	Russian	Maltese	Russian	Portuguese
1pm	Spanish	Spanish	Spanish	Spanish	Spanish	Spanish	Spanish
2pm	Turkish	Pashto	Turkish	Turkish	Turkish	Pashto	Kurdish
3pm	Indonesian	Persian	Indonesian	Ukrainian	Indonesian	Persian	Indonesian
4pm	Lao	Dari	Gujarati	Nepali	Gujarati	Dari	Nepali
5pm	Hindi	Hindi	Hindi	Hindi	Hindi	Hindi	Hindi
6pm	Bangla	Swahili	Urdu	Hmong	Kurdish	Bangla	Urdu
7pm	German	German	German	German	German	Czech	Slovak
8pm	Tamil	Assyrian	Tamil	Malayalam	Tamil	Assyrian	Tamil
9pm	Punjabi	Punjabi	Punjabi	Punjabi	Punjabi	Lao	Malayalam
10pm	Thai	Burmese	Somali	Thai	Somali	Burmese	Swahili
11pm	Overnight Programming²

Notes:

Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne FM; digital radio; online – sbs.com.au/radio; digital TV; and SBS Radio app.
Overnight programming: BBC World Service (in a variety of languages).

National Radio Network¹

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6am	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	SBS Arabic24	BBC Arabic	BBC Arabic
7am	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin	Mandarin
8am	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian	Italian
9am	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese	Cantonese
10am	Filipino	Filipino	Filipino	Filipino	Filipino	Filipino	Hmong
11am	Croatian	Sinhalese	Dutch	Croatian	Sinhalese	Dinka	Hebrew
12pm	Macedonian	Maltese	Portuguese	Macedonian	NITV Radio	Russian	Hebrew/Yiddish
1pm	Spanish	Spanish	Spanish	Spanish	Spanish	French	French
2pm	Polish	Pashto	Polish	Turkish	Turkish	Hungarian	Kurdish
3pm	Indonesian	Serbian	Khmer	Serbian	Indonesian	Persian	Bosnian
4pm	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek	Greek
5pm	Hindi	Hindi	Hindi	Hindi	Hindi	Hindi	Nepali
6pm	Bangla	Dari	Finnish	Tigrinya	Gujarati	Albanian	Urdu
7pm	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Vietnamese
8pm	German	German	Tamil	German	German	Assyrian	Tamil
9pm	Korean	Punjabi	Korean	Punjabi	Korean	Lao	Malayalam
10pm	Amharic	Japanese	Samoan	Thai	Somali	Burmese	Swahili
11pm	Overnight Programming²

Notes:

An amalgamation of SBS Radio 1 and SBS Radio 2 programming; available on AM and FM frequencies in major centres around Australia (see Appendix 13).
Overnight programming: BBC World Service (in a variety of languages).

SBS Radio 3¹

SBS Radio 3 features BBC World Service English programming.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
24/7	BBC World Service English	BBC World Service English	BBC World Service English	BBC World Service English	BBC World Service English	BBC World Service English	BBC World Service English

Notes:

Digital radio; digital TV; and SBS Radio app.

SBS Arabic24¹

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6am²	SBS Sabah Alkher (Good Morning) Australia					BBC Arabic (variety of programs)	BBC Arabic (variety of programs)
9am²	SBS Bayt Al Mazzika (House of Music)
12am²	BBC Arabic (variety of programs)
3pm²	SBS Arabic Australia Alyaom (Australia Today)
6pm²	MCD Sante Durable
7pm – 6am	BBC Arabic (variety of programs)

Notes:

Digital radio; digital TV; and SBS Radio app.
SBS Arabic 24 News Updates every hour between 6 am – 6 pm weekdays

SBS Digital Radio Channels

SBS Radio 1

SBS Radio 2

SBS Radio 3

SBS Arabic24

SBS Chill

SBS PopAsia

SBS PopDesi

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