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The Music and Drama Company (MDC) was first formed by Defence Minister Goh Keng Swee in 1973 to boost the morale of Singapore Armed Forces' soldiers through live entertainment and educating them on national duty. [2] [3] MDC expanded in 1992 to include a choir, a chamber ensemble and a Chinese orchestra. [2]
Plans for Power 98 were announced in January 1994 at the opening of Safra Resort and Country Club, with a start-up cost of $3.3 million from the Ministry of Defence. The station targeted male listeners aged 18 to 35, considered an under-served market. [ 3 ]
Vista through the Summer Garden towards the Summer Palace, 1716. The Summer Garden (Russian: Летний сад, romanized: Letny sad) is a historic public garden that occupies an eponymous island between the Neva, Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in downtown Saint Petersburg, Russia and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great.
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 ...
Summer Hill station opened on 15 September 1879. [3] [4] The Main Suburban line through Summer Hill was quadruplicated in 1892, [5] and sextuplicated in 1927 in association with electrification works. [6] [7] As part of the 1892 work, the northern side platform was converted to an island platform and a new platform constructed on the most ...
The state's most powerful AM station, WBT in Charlotte, has been an affiliate of the network since 1971, except for 1991 to 1995 and 2006 to 2012. WBT is a 50,000-watt clear-channel station that reaches parts of 22 states at night, bringing the Tar Heels' broadcasts to most of the eastern half of North America.
The banker Bill Browder recounted visiting Safra at the Villa Leopolda with Beny Steinmetz in his 2014 memoir Red Notice. [6] Security was provided for Safra at the villa by a team of former Israeli commando soldiers. [7] The Safras lived some 10 miles from the Villa Leopolda, in a penthouse apartment in Monaco. [8]
The Summer Festival for Peace was the first of many, more and better publicized benefit concerts in the future. As such it paved the way for The Concert for Bangladesh (August 1, 1971), Farm Aid (September 22, 1985), Live Aid, etc. by demonstrating the fundraising potential for such large scale musical events.