MediaCorp (Chinese: 新传媒; pinyin: Xīn Chuánméi) is a conglomeration group of commercial media companies in Singapore specializing largely in television and radio broadcasting, and to a lesser extent, in periodicals and newspaper publishing and filmmaking.
MediaCorp Group comprises of the following divisions:
- MediaCorp TV
- MediaCorp Studios
- MediaCorp TV12
- MediaCorp Radio
- MediaCorp News
- MediaCorp Press
- MediaCorp Publishing
- MediaCorp Technologies
- MediaCorp Raintree Pictures
- Media Research Consultants
- Caldecott Productions International.
At present, MediaCorp runs 6 television channels and 14 radio channels, making MediaCorp the largest media broadcaster and provider in Singapore.
Before 2001, MediaCorp was formerly known as:
- the Radio and Television of Singapore (RTS) (1965–1980)
- the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) (1980–1994)
- the Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) and the Radio Corporation of Singapore (RCS) (1994–2001)
MediaCorp has held a virtualised monopoly in the television broadcasting market, and most of the radio broadcasting market for a substantial amount of years. With the liberalisation of Singapore media in January 1,2001 however, SPH MediaWorks, a division of Singapore Press Holdings entered the market. Losses by both companies due to competition led to a merger, and as of 1 January 2005, MediaCorp once again became the monopoly in the mass market free-to-air terrestrial television provider.
MediaCorp is located at Andrew Road, Caldecott Broadcasting Centre. Milestones
- 1 June 1936, it was started as the first radio station in Singapore. It started a TV service in 15 February 1963. 2 April, regular TV services was launch on Channel 5. On 23 November the same year, the second channel, Channel 8, was launch. Channel 5 shows some of the English and Malay programme while the Channel 8 shows some of the Chinese and Tamil programme.
- 1966, Old broadcast house moved to current TV studio at Caldecott Hill. Old broadcast house was redeveloped into drama street scene.
- 1974, it started a colour television service.
- 1984, it launched the TV12 channel, and in 1994, had them separated into Prime 12 and Premiere 12.
- 1990, SBC launched Stereo on all TV channels.
- 1994, SBC becomes Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS), one of the three companies created from the privatisation process.
- 1995, Channel 5 and 8 started 24-hour broadcasts.
- 1997, Channel 8 productions were exported to the Taiwanese cable market via TCSI (TCS International), a cable network in Taiwan. Popular serials included Fann Wong's Return of the Condor Heroes.
- 1999, SIM Group of Companies underwent corporate restructure, became Media Corporation of Singapore, or MediaCorp Singapore.
- 1999, it started Channel NewsAsia (CNA), the world and local news channel, which can also be seen on Asia Cable TV.
- 2000, Prime 12 and Premiere 12 were renamed to Suria and Central respectively. That year, it launched SportCity (later rename CityTV on 2001) for all sports programmes, which ceased transmission in 2002 due to the regional economic slowdown.
- 2001, TCS becomes MediaCorp TV.
- 2001, TVMobile started operation and it became the world's first outdoor digital TV system, broadcasting on some 1500 SBS Transit buses.
- 2004, to prevent further economic losses, MediaCorp and SPH decided to merge their free television and free newspaper operations.
- 31 December 2004, MediaCorp and SPH announces that the merger is legally completed, thereby creating the new holding company, MediaCorp TV Holdings Pte Ltd, which now owns Channel 5, Channel 8, TVMobile and Channel U.
- 1 January 2005, Channel U (Previously under SPH MediaWorks Ltd, a subsidiary of SPH) joins MediaCorp.
Management Audit Committee
Group Internal Audit
- CEO: Lucas Chow
- CFO: Henry Lim
- EVP: Chua Hoe Sing
- MD: Shaun Seow
MediaCorp Group's Strategic Business Units (SBUs) are managed quite independently from the parent group.
- CEO for MediaCorp TV: Chua Foo Yong
- CEO for MediaCorp Studios: Chang Long Jong
- CEO for MediaCorp TV12: Alice Tan
- CEO for MediaCorp News: Woon Tai Ho
- CEO for MediaCorp Technologies: Mock Pak Lum
- CEO for MediaCorp Publishing: Philip Koh
- CEO for MediaCorp Radio: James Yip
- CEO for MediaCorp Press: Mano Sabnani
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