SBS Celebrates 45 years on air

S-B-S is the world's most multi-lingual radio station, and now it's celebrating 45 years since first hitting the airwaves.

Minister for Immigration Ian MacPhee (right) visits 3EA, 1979 Source: (Courtesy National Archives of Austalia A12111-8112097)

Back then, just a handful of programs in mostly European languages were set up to communicate the government's new Medicare program.

 

SBS Radio it would become a key response to Australia's growing cultural diversity and change the lives of countless new Australians.