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SPH Media Trust (SMT), trading as SPH Media, is a mass media company in Singapore. It was incorporated on July 19, 2021, as a company limited by guarantee , it was a spin off from Singapore Press Holdings as part of a restructuring.
Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) was an organisation with businesses in property and aged care in Singapore. Since its takeover by Cuscaden Peak in 2022, it has been renamed Cuscaden Peak Investments. Prior to 1 December 2021, SPH was in the media business with a reach in the print, digital, radio, and outdoor media.
As of August 2023, there are three licensed broadcasters of terrestrial radio in Singapore, offering a total of 19 FM radio stations; 12 are owned by the state-owned broadcaster Mediacorp, two are owned by So Drama! Entertainment, and five are owned by SPH Media. [1]
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]
SPH Media: general daily broadsheet: 18 March 1967; 57 years ago () 130,600 100,300 (print + digital) tabla! English SPH Media: general free weekly tabloid: 10 October 2008; 16 years ago () 30,000 The New Paper: English SPH Media: free general daily tabloid: 26 July 1988; 36 years ago () 85,600 113,300 Thumbs Up (大拇指)
The mass media in Singapore refers to mass communication methods through broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet available in the city-state. Singapore's media environment is a duopoly between two major conglomorates—Mediacorp, a public broadcaster controlled by state-owned conglomerate Temasek, and SPH Media. [1] [2]
The Straits Times (also known informally by its abbreviation ST) is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust. [2] [3] [4] Established on 15 July 1845, it is the most-widely circulated newspaper in the country and has a significant regional audience.
From 8 September 2016, the portal also presents news from two other Singapore Press Holdings Chinese-language newspapers, Lianhe Wanbao and Shin Min Daily News. [9] According to The Washington Post , "Zaobao's combined print and digital circulation in Singapore fell from 187,900 in 2015 to 144,000 in 2020, according to company filings."