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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).
Channel U; This was the second Mandarin television channel in Singapore (after channel 8), which became integrated with Mediacorp's management on 1 January 2005. Channel i; This was the second English television channel in Singapore. It ceased operations on 1 January 2005 when SPH Mediaworks and Mediacorp merged.
On 8 June 2000, SPH MediaWorks was set up with the aim of breaking into the broadcasting business, [6] and received Singapore's second nationwide free-to-air terrestrial television broadcasting service licence on 26 April 2001. [7] SPH soon afterwards launched two channels, Channel U on 6 May 2001 and TVWorks (English) on 20 May 2001. [8]
Channel i was a Singaporean English language free-to-air terrestrial television channel owned by SPH MediaWorks, a broadcasting subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings. The channel was launched on 20 May 2001 as TVWorks , accompanying the Mandarin-language Channel U .
Channel U may refer to these television channels: Channel U (Singaporean TV channel) , a Chinese-language channel Channel U (UK) a former UK music video channel from 2003 to 2009
On 3 January 1963, the Singaporean government announced the start of pilot programming effective February 15. The station was set to broadcast on VHF channel 5 in the 625-line television standard and would provide a license fee of $24 per year ($2 per month), touted at the time as being "one of the cheapest in this part of the world".
In 2000, MediaCorp Studios was created to produce content for MediaCorp TV channels, such as Channel 5, Channel U and Channel 8. [254] In 2001, EagleVision was created to produce content for Suria and Vasantham. [ 255 ]
City TV was a free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate MediaCorp. The channel was originally launched by the Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) on 30 January 2000 as Sportscity , which initially focused on regional and international sports.