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Culture of Bundaberg


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services only in digital format, as analogue transmissions were deactivated in the second half of 2011.

Local news coverage of Bundaberg and the Wide Bay is provided on all three commercial networks with both Seven Queensland's Seven Local News and Win Queensland's WIN News airing 30-minute local news bulletins each weeknight. Both programs are produced from newsrooms in the city with both bulletins broadcast from studios in Maroochydore, with WIN also producing a late night statewide bulletin for regional Queensland. Southern Cross Ten also airs short local news updates from their Canberra studios throughout the day.

SBS offers digital high-definition simulcasts of their main channel, SBS ONE on SBS HD.

Other digital channels available include: ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24, SBS Two, One HD, Eleven, 7Two, 7mate, TV4ME, GEM, Gold and GO!. Austar Limited provides subscription satellite television services.

The city has been the location for two film sets, including the 1989 film, The Delinquents, starring Kylie Minogue and the 1977 film, The Mango Tree. Both films were set in and around Bundaberg.

Sport

Most major Australian sporting codes are played in Bundaberg, including; Rowing, Basketball, Roller Derby, Cricket, Golf, Lawn bowls, Netball, Tennis, Rugby league, Football, Hockey, Australian Rules Football, and Softball.

Basketball - Bundaberg boasts two professional teams, both competing in the Australian Basketball Association's Queensland Conference (QBL). They are the Bundaberg Radiology Bulls (men) and Bundaberg Radiology Bears and both feature local players as well as national and international professionals.

Tennis - The Bundaberg & District Tennis Senior Association operates eleven floodlit clay courts in Drinan Park, Bundaberg West at the corner of George & Powers Streets. Competition tennis is played all year round. The Bundaberg & District Junior Tennis Association operates five
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