In November, the Hong Kong drama Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (倚天屠龙记 or Yee Tin To Long Kei) became the first programme in Chinese dialect to be dubbed in Mandarin before its Singaporean broadcast.
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Almost a month later, the Singapore National Day Parade (held at Padang) was broadcast in colour for the first time in all four languages.įrom 1 July 1978, in line with the introduction of the Singapore government's Speak Mandarin Campaign, skits and advertisements on TV no longer used Chinese dialects. About 2,000 colour TV sets were sold in Singapore three days before the match. On 7 July 1974, colour TV made its debut in Singapore when the live-broadcast of the finals of the 1974 FIFA World Cup (between West Germany and The Netherlands), narrated by Brian Richmond, was displayed in colour. From that day of independence when then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew addressed Singaporeans on the inevitable independence, both channels became the national TV stations and later formed the TV Division of Radio Television Singapore (RTS).įrom 31 January 1967, Channel 8 also became home to the Educational Television Service, which showed TV programmes produced by the Ministry of Education on school subjects at different educational levels and in different languages, in which they later transferred them to Channel 12 in 1993. Both channels aired during the brief time Singapore was a state of Malaysia from that year to 9 August 1965, airing together with today's Radio Televisyen Malaysia (TV Malaysia at that time) then from the Klang Valley and Kuala Lumpur areas. Commercial advertising was allowed on Channel 5 starting 15 January 1964. It took over Chinese and Tamil programming, while English and Malay programming remained on Channel 5. On 23 November 1963, a second channel, Channel 8 was inaugurated.
It started off broadcasting from 7.15 pm to 11.15 pm every day, showing programmes in Singapore's four official languages (English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil). On 2 April 1963, President Yusof Ishak officially inaugurated the regular service of Television Singapura. Īt the time, it was estimated that only one in 58 persons in Singapore owned a TV set, and the pilot service offered only one hour of broadcasting per day on Channel 5. It was followed by two cartoons, a news report and newsreel, a comedy show and a local variety show. Rajaratnam became the first person to appear on Singapore TV, announcing that "Tonight might well mark the start of a social and cultural revolution in our lives." Following his speech, the first programme televised in Singapore was a 15-minute documentary produced by Television Singapura called TV Looks at Singapore. After the image of the state flag and the playing of the national anthem, Majulah Singapura, then-Minister for Culture S. History Television Singapura/Radio and Television Singapore (1963-1980) Īt 6pm on Friday, 15 February 1963, a pilot television broadcasting service began in Singapore with a broadcast that lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes. Singapore households also have a high rate of TV penetration. The private ownership of satellite dishes was previously forbidden. Local pay TV operators are StarHub TV and Singtel TV. The public broadcaster, MediaCorp TV, has a monopoly on terrestrial television channels and is fully owned by government holding company Temasek Holdings. Television in Singapore began on 15 February 1963.
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