SBS Radio has three main radio services,
Radio 1,
Radio 2 and
Radio 3, as well as a national FM service. Radio 1 is available on AM in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Wollongong (1107, 1224, 1440 and 1485 respectively, and can also be listened to in FM on the SBS Audio app) while Radio 2 is available on FM in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra (97.7, 93.1 and 105.5) and on AM in Wollongong (1035). Radio 3 is only available on digital platforms. It broadcasts the BBC World Service on all days of the week unless of special circumstances. The national service (branded simply as
SBS Radio) is available throughout the rest of the nation through FM broadcasting (except in Newcastle, where it is available on AM) and on the
Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) satellite service, and is composed of material from Radios 1, 2 and 3. Additionally, a few community stations in areas without dedicated SBS Radio transmitters carry some SBS Radio content. Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 3 are all available nationwide through digital terrestrial television, through
DAB+ digital radio in available areas, on satellite from free-to-air
Optus D1 and
Optus B3
C-band satellite transmissions, and on
Foxtel. Until the launch of Radio 3 in April 2013, programs available on Radio 1 and Radio 2 varied depending on the platform and the location: for example, digital radio and television in Brisbane largely followed scheduling in Sydney, while digital radio and television in Adelaide and Perth largely followed scheduling in Melbourne. SBS has some additional digital-only services. These are available on
digital radio in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra; on
digital terrestrial TV throughout the country, on VAST, the internet and other platforms. These include: •
SBS Chill, a mix of chillout and chilled world music •
SBS PopAsia, a mixture of
J-pop,
K-pop and
C-pop, which began broadcasting in 2010. •
SBS South Asian, a mixture of
Bhangra,
Bollywood music and South Asian pop music in addition with South Asian news and talk programming. It was previously named as SBS PopDesi. •
SBS Radio 3, which began broadcasting on 29 April 2013. Radio 3 was added to Foxtel and Austar on 2 September 2013. It initially included Australian made programming in various languages. As of 2024, it carries SBS language programs from 11AM to 5PM weekdays, with
BBC World Service programs at all other times. •
SBS Arabic 24, a 24-hour Arabic radio station, began broadcasting on 7 March 2016. It broadcast a quantity of
BBC Arabic programming until it became unavailable in January 2023, and was replaced with music programming. Discontinued digital radio services include: •
SBS PopAraby, which featured
Arabic pop music. It is now a programming block on SBS Arabic 24. •
SBS Radio 4 relayed the BBC World Service most of the time, and was supplemented with Australian programs. On 18 April 2019, all such programs on SBS Radio 4 were transferred to SBS Radio 3. Slogans previously used include
The many voices of one Australia,
Six Billion Stories and Counting... and
Seven Billion Stories and Counting...; with the current one being
A World of Difference. == Languages ==