The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian Free-To-Air television network. Since it started broadcasting in 1979 SBS has provided multilingual and multicultural programs which reflect the multicultural nation of Australia. As part of this agenda, SBS has been showing the Eurovision Song Contest annually since 1983 and have played a large part in developing the poplularity of the contest in Australia.
Since 2009 Sam Pang and Julia Zemiro have travelled to Eurovsion as the official commentators for the Australian broadcast of Eurovision. SBS had previously been airing BBC coverage of the event with the very popular commentary by Terry Wogan. It has been said that Eurovision is consistently one of the most watched non-sport programs on SBS Television each year, and last year had over half a million viewers.
You can follow the antics of the SBS Eurovision team on twitter here. Wouldn't it be great if the 30th year of Euovision coverage for SBS was the first year that Australia was able to compete?
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