# World Watch

World Watch, or WorldWatch, is a programming block on SBS and SBS Viceland, and a standalone television channel in Australia, that carries news bulletins from countries around the world. The World Watch service gives viewers the opportunity to see news bulletins in their native language. The majority of these bulletins are produced by public or state broadcasters.

## History

The WorldWatch program began on 24 August 1993 with news bulletins from the People's Republic of China, the United States, Germany and Russia.
In June 2002, SBS launched the SBS World News Channel, providing repeats of aired bulletins on SBS in addition to updated bulletins.
In October 2003, Filipino, Vietnamese and Arabic were added to the World Watch schedule. However, the Vietnamese service was controversial as the broadcaster chosen was the government-controlled VTV4, which was seen as deeply offensive and seen as propaganda to many Vietnamese Australians who fled after the Vietnam War. It was quickly removed on 17 October.
In 2009, SBS replaced the World News Channel with SBS 2 (now SBS Viceland), and the bulletins also moved to the new channel under the "World Watch" banner. Bulletins air from 6:00am to 6:00pm, whereas SBS airs the bulletins between 5:00am and 1:30pm.
In 2010, SBS added three new languages: Portuguese, Urdu and Hindi.
In October 2015, SBS added eleven new bulletins to the World Watch schedule: African English, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Nepali, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhalese, Somali, Tamil and Thai; and created an English language line-up on SBS, which moved the Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin bulletins from SBS to SBS 2.
Usually, before a WorldWatch bulletin, an intro animation revealing the city and country of origin of the bulletin, sometimes also including the full title of the bulletin, is shown, as well as a disclaimer, which, following the previously mentioned backlash over the choice of Vietnamese news broadcasts, explains that the bulletin may not reflect the network's standards and may include distressing content.
After a bulletin ends, information about other airtimes for that bulletin and airtimes for the bulletin language's SBS Radio program are shown, explained by a voiceover in the bulletin's native language. If the bulletin is in English, then no relevant information as mentioned is shown.
In early 2022, SBS announced that they are relocating most of non-English news bulletins from the World Watch programming block into their newly launched in-house news channel SBS WorldWatch, which launched on 23 May 2022, along with SBS-produced local news in both Arabic and Mandarin (which the latter two was premiered early on SBS On Demand since earlier that year), as both SBS and SBS Viceland are making some space for special events such as live sports that has been interrupt World Watch news bulletins (see below), although English news bulletins from international news channels (not to be confused with SBS-produced SBS World News) are still available to watch in the morning and midday.

## Bulletins

In determining the World Watch schedule, the policy of SBS has been to match the selection of news programs with the ethnic composition of the Australian population. The World Watch schedule includes news bulletins from Armenia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, France, Fiji, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Malta, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The programs are usually broadcast unedited, and between the times of 2:30 am and mid-afternoon. However, SBS does edit programs under "exceptional circumstances" where it breaches broadcasting regulations and its Codes of Practices. In addition, commercials and sponsorship messages are edited out, while the end of the program will also be cut out when the program runs overtime in its timeslot. Also, due to SBS broadcast rights to certain sporting events, particular bulletins can be axed from schedule to allow airtime for the sporting events. Very rarely does SBS ever fill in broadcast gaps with WorldWatch bulletins.
In case that SBS does not receive the program on time, the program's timeslot would be filled with either its WeatherWatch program or English-language programming from DW-TV in Germany.

### Current bulletins
#### English News bulletins

| Network | Country of origin | Network/Broadcaster | State Media Monitor rating | Program name |
| SBS | Australia | APAC Network | N/A | APAC Weekly |
| SBS | France | France 24 | ISFM | PrimeNews Paris |
| SBS | Germany | DW (DW English) | ISF | DW News |
| SBS | India | DD (DD India) | SC | News Night |
| SBS | Japan | NHK (NHK World-Japan) | CaPu | NHK Newsline |
| SBS | Philippines | ABS-CBN (ANC/Kapamilya Channel) | N/A | The World Tonight |
| SBS | Qatar | Al Jazeera | SC | News |
| SBS | United Kingdom | BBC (BBC One/BBC News) | IP | BBC News at Six |
| SBS | United Kingdom | BBC (BBC One/BBC News) | IP | BBC News at Ten |
| SBS | United States | PBS | IP | PBS News Hour |
| SBS | United States | PBS | IP | Washington Week |
| SBS | United States | ABC | N/A | ABC World News Tonight |
| SBS | United States | ABC | N/A | This Week |
| SBS Viceland | Canada | APTN | N/A | APTN National News Weekend |
| SBS Viceland | Canada | CBC (CBC TV/CBC News Network) | ISF | The National |
| SBS Viceland | Fiji | FBC (FBC TV) | ISFM | FBC News |
| SBS Viceland | France | France 24 | ISFM | Eye on Africa |
| SBS Viceland | Germany | DW (DW English) | ISF | Global Us |
| SBS Viceland | Qatar | Al Jazeera | SC | Newshour |
| SBS Viceland | Turkey | TRT (TRT World) | SC | Newshour |
| SBS Viceland | New Zealand | Whakaata Māori | ISF | Te Ao with Moana |
| SBS Viceland | United States | ABC | N/A | Nightline |
| SBS Viceland | United States | Indian Country Today | N/A | ICT Newscast |

#### Non-English News bulletins on SBS WorldWatch

| Language | Country of origin | Network/Broadcaster | State Media Monitor rating | Program name |
| Arabic | France | France 24 | ISFM | نشرةالأخبار (Nashrat Al'akhbar) |
| Arabic | France | France 24 | ISFM | صباح فرانس 24 (Sabah France 24) |
| Armenian | Armenia | ARMTV | SC | Լուրեր (Lurer) |
| Bengali | Bangladesh | Channel i | N/A | সংবাদ (Sambāda) |
| Bosnian | Bosnia and Herzegovina | BHRT (BHT 1) | SC | Dnevnik |
| Croatian | Croatia | HRT (HRT 1) | CaPu | Dnevnik HRT |
| Dutch | Netherlands | NPO/NOS (NPO 1 via BVN) | ISF | NOS Journaal |
| Filipino | Philippines | ABS-CBN (Kapamilya Channel), A2Z (via TFC) | N/A | TV Patrol |
| French | France | France Télévisions (France 2) | ISFM | Journal de 20 heures |
| French | France | France 24 | ISFM | Paris Direct |
| German | Germany | ZDF | IP | heute-journal |
| Greek | Greece | ERT (ERT1 via ERT World) | CaPu | ΕΡΤ Ειδήσεις (ERT Eidiseis) |
| Gujarati | India | DD (DD Girnar) | SC | ઇવનિંગ ન્યૂઝ (Evening News) |
| Hindi | India | Aaj Tak | N/A, then a program in a currently SC-rated news media | नॉनस्टॉप 100 (Top 100 News; lit. Nonstop 100) |
| Indonesian | Indonesia | TVRI (TVRI National) | SC | Klik Indonesia Petang |
| Italian | Italy | RAI (Rai 1) | CaPu | TG1 |
| Japanese | Japan | NHK (NHK G via NHK World Premium) | CaPu | NHK News 7 |
| Korean | South Korea | YTN (via YTN WORLD) | N/A, former subsidiary of a currently IP-rated news agency | 뉴스N이슈 (News N Issue) |
| Macedonian | North Macedonia | MRT (MRT 1) | SC | Dnevnik MRT |
| Malayalam | India | DD (DD Malayalam) | SC | വാർത്തകൾ (Vārttakaḷ) |
| Maltese | Malta | PBS (TVM) | SC | L-Aħbarijiet |
| Nepali | Nepal | Nepal Television | SC | नेपाल टेलिभिजन समाचार (Nepal Television News) |
| Polish | Poland | Polsat Group (Polsat/Polsat News) | N/A | Wydarzenia |
| Portuguese | Portugal | RTP (RTP1 via RTP Internacional) | IP | Telejornal |
| Punjabi | India | PTC News | N/A | PTC News |
| Romanian | Romania | TVR (TVR 1 via TVRi) | SC | Telejurnal |
| Serbian | Serbia | RTS (RTS1 via RTS.rs) | CaPu | Дневник 2 (Dnevnik 2) |
| Sinhalese | Sri Lanka | SLRC (Rupavahini) | CaPu | රූපවාහිනී ප්‍රවෘත්ති (Rupavahini News) |
| Spanish | Spain | RTVE (La 1 via TVE Internacional) | SC | Telediario |
| Tamil | India | Polimer TV | N/A | செய்திகள் (Ceytikaḷ) |
| Telugu | India | DD (DD Yadagiri) | SC | వార్తలు (Vārtalu) |
| Thai | Thailand | Thai PBS | CaPu | Thai PBS News |
| Turkish | Turkey | TRT (TRT Haber) | SC | Öǧle Ana Haber |
| Ukrainian | Ukraine | Suspilne (Pershyi) | ISFM | Suspilne News United News (2022-2024) |
| Urdu | Pakistan | PTV (PTV Home/PTV News via PTV Global) | CaPu | Khabarnama |

### Currently suspended

| Language | Country of origin | Broadcaster | State Media Monitor rating | Program |
| English | China | CGTN | SC | The World Today |
| Mandarin | China | CCTV (CCTV-4) | SC | 中国新闻 (China News) |
| English | Russia | Russia Today | SC | Live simulcast |
| Russian | Russia | NTV | SC | Сегодня (Segodnya) |

### Former bulletins

| Language | Country of origin | State Media Monitor rating | Broadcaster |
| Arabic | Lebanon | SC | TL |
| Arabic | United Arab Emirates | CaPu | Dubai TV |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | N/A | ATV |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | CaPr | TVB (TVB Jade International) |
| English | Fiji | N/A | Fiji TV (Fiji One) |
| English | New Zealand | ISM | TVNZ (TVNZ 1) |
| Filipino | Philippines | SC | NBN (now PTV) |
| French | France | ISFM | TV5Monde |
| German | Germany | ISF | DW (DW Deutsch) |
| Greek | Cyprus | SC | CyBC |
| Greek | Greece | N/A | ANT1 (via ANT1 Pacific) |
| Hindi | India | N/A | NDTV (NDTV India) |
| Hindi | India | SC | DD (DD News) |
| Hungarian | Hungary | SC | MTVA (Duna/M1 via Duna World) |
| Latin American Spanish | Chile | CaPu | TVN |
| Polish | Poland | SC | TVP |
| Somali | Somalia | N/A | Universal TV |
| Tamil | India | SC | DD (DD Podhigai) |
| Vietnamese | Vietnam | SC | VTV (via VTV4) |