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MediaCorp's monopoly on free-to-air television was broken in May 2001, when the Singapore government granted new free-to-air licenses to SPH MediaWorks, a subsidiary of publisher Singapore Press Holdings. The company launched two channels in English and Chinese respectively, TVWorks (later Channel i) and Channel U. [177]
Channel 5 is an English-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp.The channel primarily airs English language programming made in Singapore, and imported programmes from other nations such as the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Philippines, broadcasting news (as News Tonight) and entertainment from a variety of ...
Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) was formed on August 4, 1984, through a merger of three organisations, The Straits Times Press Group, Singapore News and Publications Limited and Times Publishing Berhad. [3] SPH readership has stagnated since the early-2000s, as Singaporeans increasingly turned to online media for their news consumption. [4]
Channel U (Chinese: U頻道) is a Mandarin-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp.. The channel was first established in 2001 by SPH MediaWorks—a subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings—as one of two new FTA channels launched by the company (alongside the English-language TVWorks, later renamed Channel i).
The company was founded by Singapore Press Holdings on 8 June 2000 in an investment worth $50 million, [3] and appointed local television industry veteran Lee Cheok Yew as its CEO. [1] The new company aimed not only at the conventional radio and television businesses, but also eyed a potential interest in the online sector. [4]
On 1 October 2002, Singapore Cable Vision merged with Singapore telecommunications company StarHub to create StarHub Cable Vision, a pay TV service with more than 40 international channels of news, movies, entertainment, sports, music and education. [130] The service has been known as StarHub TV since 2007.
CNA (an initialism of Channel NewsAsia) is a Singapore-based multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate.The network is broadcast in Singapore on free-to-air terrestrial television and Mediacorp's streaming service meWatch, and is distributed internationally via television providers in the Asia–Pacific, as well as streaming and free ad ...
In addition, mewatch also offers live streaming of Mediacorp's free-to-air channels, which is only available in Singapore. It also offers catch-up TV for viewers to watch shows they have missed on prime time TV shows from the previous few days. In 2016, Toggle began to offer made-for-digital productions under the brand Toggle Originals.