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The following lists events that happened during 1993 in Singapore.
Ong Teng Cheong was a Singaporean statesman, architect and union leader who served as the fifth president of Singapore from 1993 to 1999. He was the first president to be directly elected in a popular vote in Singapore's history after winning the 1993 presidential election.
Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. is a state-owned public media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns and operates television broadcasting channels, radio, and digital media properties.
Television in Singapore began on 15 February 1963. The public broadcaster, MediaCorp TV, has a monopoly on terrestrial television channels and is fully owned by government holding company Temasek Holdings. Local pay TV operators are StarHub TV and Singtel TV. The private ownership of satellite dishes was previously forbidden.
Channel 5 is an English-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp. The channel primarily airs general entertainment and news programming in the English language.
Channel 8 is a Singaporean free-to-air television channel, airing in Mandarin Chinese. It was created by Television Singapura on 31 August 1963 with experimental broadcasts, before officially launching on 23 November that year.
CNA, which is an initialism derived from its previous name, Channel NewsAsia, is a Singapore free-to-air news channel owned by Mediacorp, Singapore's public broadcaster. It broadcasts free-to-air domestically in Singapore and internationally as a free-to-air television channel to 29 territories across the Asia-Pacific.
The following lists events that happened during 2002 in Singapore.
CNA938 is an English radio station of Mediacorp in Singapore. Since mid-2019, the station runs as the complementary to its parent television counterpart in line with the latter's 20th anniversary. CNA938 broadcasts news and talk programmes from 06:00 to 23:59 SST daily, followed by an audio simulcast of CNA during overnight hours. CNA938 was officially similar and related to BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service based in London and the New York Public Radio's WNYC-AM and WNYC-FM based in Manhattan, New York City.
The following lists events that happened during 1999 in the Republic of Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1998 in Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1995 in Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1994 in Singapore.
Public radio broadcasting began in Singapore in the April of 1925 after the Amateur Wireless Society of Malaya obtained a temporary license to broadcast. Radio Singapura was established as the first local mass market radio service in 1959. Subsequently, on February 15, 1963, before the withdrawal of the British Armed Forces and after the merger with Malaya, Singapore's first television service began as Televisyen Singapura under its owner, Radio Television Singapore (RTS).
987 is Singapore's very first 24-hour English music radio station of Mediacorp Radio in Singapore. It is a 24-hour radio station that plays English language hit songs from Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom, United States and around the world. 987FM is the sole contemporary hit radio on the FM frequency band in Singapore. 987's official full launch took place as Perfect Ten 98.7FM on New Year's Day 1989 at the stroke of midnight SGT as 24-hour music radio station in English. Its studio is currently at Mediacorp Campus, Mediapolis. The radio station's official tagline and slogan is "Singapore's Number 1 Hit Music Station".
Suria is a Malay-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp. The channel primarily airs general entertainment and news programming in the Malay language, including original programming, and imported programmes from Malaysia and Indonesia.
Symphony 924 is a 24-hour classical music radio station run by Mediacorp in Singapore. It was officially very first frequency to introduced as FM Stereo in Singapore on 18 July 1969. It is the only classical music radio station in Singapore. Symphony 924 was officially similar and related to BBC Radio 3.
Asia Business News (ABN) was a business news television channel based in Singapore. A subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company that also owns The Wall Street Journal Asia daily it was the sister network of London-based European Business News (EBN). Its programmes originate from Singapore. It was officially opening ceremony at grand opening or formally opening breakfast in Singapore by President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong on 1 November 1993 at 6:00am SGT based in Singapore and it operated from ABN's head office and headquarters in Anson Road, Singapore along with CNBC Asia.
Oli 968 is an infotainment radio station in the Tamil language owned by Mediacorp playing for the Indian community in Singapore offering the latest Tamil songs, regional Indian songs, local and international news, lifestyle features and Indian contemporary and classical hits of 24 hours a day. It used to be the only station in Singapore where all of its shows were presenter-led, especially during the early hours. This has since changed as it airs non-stop music and podcasts of earlier aired programs after 1:00am on weekdays while non-stop music airs uninterrupted on weekends.
Okto is a Singaporean children's programming block broadcast by Mediacorp's Channel 5 in English and Channel 8 in Mandarin Chinese.
Singapore International Television (SITV) was a Singaporean satellite television channel operated by Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS). SITV was broadcast from Palapa B2P, an Indonesian satellite, which covers Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia. It was officially opening ceremony at grand opening or formally opening night in Singapore by Prime Minister of Singapore Goh Chok Tong on New Year's Day 1994 at 10:00pm SGT based in Singapore and it operated from TCS head office and headquarters in Caldecott Broadcast Centre, Singapore along with Channel NewsAsia.