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Oli 968 (Tamil: ஒலி 968) is a Tamil-language radio station in Singapore. Owned by the state-owned broadcaster Mediacorp, it broadcasts programming serving Indian Singaporeans, including music of Tamil Nadu. The station's origins can be traced back to Radio Malaya Singapore's Red Network—which broadcast programming in Tamil.
Radio stations that broadcast in the Tamil language are found primarily in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States, South Africa, Canada as well as other parts of the world containing a significant Tamil diaspora population.
The radio stations are broadcast primarily in the four official languages -- Malay, Chinese, Tamil and English to cater to diverse audiences. Owing to Singapore's history as a British colony, the English-language feed of the BBC World Service has been available in the region since its establishment, with Mediacorp relaying it as part of its FM ...
The radio station began broadcasting on 9 September 1994, after having started test transmission nine days before (31 August). It was known as TIME Highway Radio until 2005 and includes segments in Malay (), English and for a short period, in Mandarin (Mun Toh Tak), with Tamil-language segment (Raaga) being introduced later, as well as Hindi Power, a segment that focused mainly on Bollywood music.
Tamil is taught as a second language in most government schools from primary to junior college levels. Tamil is an examinable subject at all major nationwide exams. There is a daily Tamil newspaper printed in Singapore, Tamil Murasu. There is a full-time radio station, Oli 96.8FM, and a full-fledged television channel, Vasantham.
Tamil radio on internet has become very popular after the Sri Lankan Tamil national radio started broadcasting their services on the Internet. This new trend has attracted millions of Tamil listeners from all over the world, specially listeners from south India and a commercial service called "Varthaga Sevai" was started.
SPH Media manages and operates 5 radio stations: 96.3 Hao FM and UFM100.3 in Mandarin as well as MONEY FM 89.3, Kiss92 FM and ONE FM 91.3 in English. [23] All the frequencies below can be heard in the Johor Bahru / Johor Bahru District , Singapore and Batam City / Batam Islands .
Known as NTUC Radio at the time, [16] it would be broadcast on 91.3 MHz in English and 100.3 MHz in Mandarin, [17] with 10% aside for Malay and Tamil programmes on the two stations respectively. [18] Both stations were the first "wireless" private radio stations in Singapore. [18]