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The South African Broadcasting Corportation today launched their new international news television station, SABC News International. The station will broadcast English and French news, from an African perspective, twenty-fours hours a day and is intended to compete on the same ground as BBC World and CNN.

It is currently available on the Intelsat 10, via Sentech's Vivid platform, which covers sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Europe. The station's schedule is here.

The station's website claims to have live internet streaming, however all we could find were recorded news broadcasts, in RealVideo format.

Source: SABC News

Australia's newest television station, National Indigenous TV launched yesterday in Alice Springs and Sydney, with a charter to reflect the culture of Australia's indigenous people. Initially, NITV will broadcast via the Optus Aurora remote satellite television service and commercial broadcaster Imparja's spare channel, but has future plans to become a third national broadcaster, via pay television operators and channel "A", which the Australian government plans to auction off at some point in the future.

Source: ABC Radio

Links

• NITV Advertisement


• National indigenous TV station launched in Australia -- Media Network


• The Future of Indigenous Television in Australia

As reported in the Austech forums, DW-TV, the international television service from Germany, is now available free-to-air on Intelsat 8, on a frequency of 12726 MHz, with broadcast beam covering Australia.

DW-TV broadcasts in both German and English.