SBS sells us short. It's pathetic. So much oppotunity; so little opportunity fulfilled. Scrap the ads-I just go back to ABC to see what's on.

As secretary of ‘Save our SBS’, Darce Cassidy should first ask himself why anyone would want to watch a channel that continually advertises itself with a thumping great logo almost half way across the screen. That in itself is enough to put a lot of viewers right off.

If the programs are any good, people will tolerate advertising, but having a station logo in the corner of their eye all the time is a big put off. The same goes for that other ‘public’ corporation, the ABC. Despite complaints about the old on screen logo, the ABC has made its new logo even more visible and intrusive. At least the commercials keep theirs in the bottom corner of the screen.

“…but programs in languages other than English (LOTE) have almost disappeared from prime time.”

Perhaps that’s because most people watching SBS at all use English, showing that SBS, like all of the other pandering to multiple cultures supposedly panting for programs in foreign languages, is a load of rubbish and should never have been provided by taxpayers in the first place.

And, let’s not take too much notice of what the “Federation of Ethnic Communities Council (FECCA) Chair Abd Malik”, said. These ‘ethnic councils’ and their chairs are just another part of the ethnic industry which has never been shown to represent anything or anyone other than the industry itself.

Rather than save the fool of a thing, get rid of it, along with ABC television

Lets see what decent alternative there is to the ABC and SBS!

Hmmmmm! None!

When one looks at the sheep pen of commercial TV, there's a new part of the flock trying to bleat as loudly as the others; trying to be just the same.
What was the reason for calling it SPECIAL Broadcasting Service?
The answer may be found in its radio arm which broadcasts much in LOTE.
SBS TV programmers are more worried about ratings, than reason.

AN excellent article which ads to earlier comments on SBS in onlineopinion.

Yes, SBS looks and sounds like a commercial station. It IS a commercial station.

We have lots of SBS management propaganda about getting worthy documentaries going.

But I don't see that there has been any improvement in SBS at all over the last 5 or 6 years.

Ads everywhere.

Movies repeated time after time.

SIlly programs like Mythbusters and South Park

Where is the quality SBS boats of?

Let's keep nagging Stephen Conroy and Media Watch to DO something to get SBS back on track. Give us a decent management structure, not a Board made up of Coca Cola executives and similar. Yes, really. Check it outc on SBS website

About 80% of television on ALL networks, including public broadcasting, is utter rubbish.

There has been an increase in inanity on the commercial channels and on the ABC, which is aping the commercials. As this has been happening, I have been watching less and less TV, and reading more and more books.

If people, as the majority do, continue watching crap they will continue to get crap.