Arnold Gay

Last updated

Arnold Gay
Born (1967-05-11) 11 May 1967 (age 57)
Singapore
Alma mater National University of Singapore
Occupations
  • Radio DJ
  • TV presenter
SpouseDeborah Chia
Children1

Arnold Gay (born 11 May 1967) is a television presenter and former radio presenter from Singapore. He is currently presenting the breakfast show "Asia First" on CNA together with Julie Yoo, Teresa Tang and Elizabeth Neo from Jan 2024. He previously worked at Singapore radio stations Class 95FM, Power 98 FM, Kiss 92FM, as well as sister channel CNA938. He was also a broadcast journalist at various TV stations including CNA, CNBC Asia, Bloomberg TV and Reuters TV.

Contents

Biography

Gay's first job in radio was as a presenter at Class 95FM, where he subsequently became the station's Music Director. He then became the Music Director at the newly-opened Power 98 FM in 1994. [1]

Gay then moved into the television industry in 1995, becoming a Music Video Programmer for Channel V in Hong Kong. In 1998, he returned to Singapore to become a news reporter at Channel NewsAsia. In 2001, he moved to the new Singapore Press Holdings television channel, TV Works, as a presenter on the Straits Times TV News (later renamed Channel i News). When the channel folded at the end of 2004, he became an Assistant News Editor for the Straits Times newspaper. In 2005, he became the Singapore Press Holdings Head of Corporate Relations. [2] He later moved back into broadcast journalism and had stints at CNBC Asia, Bloomberg TV and Reuters TV.

In 2012, Gay returned to the radio industry to join the new Singapore radio station Kiss 92FM. Since the station opened in August 2012, he has been the co-host of the station's breakfast show, 'Maddy, Jason and Arnold in the Mornings', from 6.00 – 10.00 am on weekdays together with Maddy Barber and Jason Johnson until March 2019. [3] [4] [5] He left the station to host the breakfast show, "Asia First", with former Money FM 89.3 DJ Yasmin Jonkers, on a revamped radio station, CNA938 (previously 938Now) for 4 years from 2019 - 2023.

At the start of 2024, he was promoted back as a Television Presenter on the main CNA channel to anchor the TV version of the "Asia First" programme to be partnered mainly with Julie Yoo and Elizabeth Neo, replacing Steve Lai who had moved to BBC News, thereby marking Gay's return to the television screens.

Education

Gay was educated at Catholic High School, St Joseph's Institution and Raffles Junior College, before going on to the National University of Singapore where he majored in Economics and Psychology.

Personal life

Gay has two brothers and one sister. His father was a Station Manager for British Airways and his mother was a bank officer.

Gay met his wife, Deborah Chia, when she was working as a DJ at Class 95FM. The couple have one son.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mediacorp</span> Singaporean commercial media company

Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. is the state-owned public media conglomerate of Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the investment arm of the Government of Singapore—it owns and operates television channels, radio, and digital media properties. It is headquartered at the Mediapolis development in Queenstown's One-north precinct, which succeeded Caldecott Hill—the long-time home of its predecessors—in 2015; as of 2022, Mediacorp employs over 3,000 employees; a large number of them are in both public and private sector broadcasting.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Channel 5 (Singaporean TV channel)</span> English television channel in Singapore

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CNA (TV network)</span> Singapore English language news channel

CNA is a Singaporean multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate. CNA broadcasts free-to-air domestically in Singapore, and internationally as a pay television channel to 29 territories across the Asia-Pacific. It also streams on Mediacorp's domestic meWatch platform, and on free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platforms and YouTube internationally.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CNA938</span> Radio station

CNA938 is an English-language radio station in Singapore. Owned by the state-owned broadcaster Mediacorp and launched on 2 October 1998, it broadcasts a news/talk radio format.

The following lists events that happened during 1995 in Singapore.

Public radio broadcasting began in Singapore in April 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).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Radio Limerick One</span> Radio station

Radio Limerick One, also called Limerick 95FM and RLO at times, was a licensed radio station serving Limerick city and county. Licensed by the Independent Radio and Television Commission in 1989, its licence was removed in 1996 for misbehaviour, although the station did not leave the airwaves. It was eventually replaced as the licensed operator by Limerick's Live 95FM.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Radio Television Brunei</span> Bruneian public broadcaster

Radio Television Brunei is the national public broadcaster of Brunei, headquartered at the Secretariat Building, Bandar Seri Begawan. Radio Brunei made its first broadcast on 2 May 1957, with a television service starting on 1 March 1975. Modelled after Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM), which is a government department, RTB came into its current state with its present name in 1975 after the merger of its radio and television services.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Glenn Ong</span> Singaporean radio presenter (born 1970)

Glenn Francis Ong Su Kar is a Singaporean radio presenter at SPH Radio's Kiss92 FM, a Singapore English radio station, hosting the morning show with Angelique Teo and Mark Van Cuylenberg. A radio veteran of over 20 years, Ong has been described as "foul, politically incorrect but refreshingly candid".

Jonathan Morrell is an English presenter and journalist who is an Executive Producer at BBC Radio Cumbria.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">SPH MediaWorks</span> Former terrestrial television broadcaster in Singapore

SPH MediaWorks Ltd was a free-to-air terrestrial television broadcaster in Singapore that operated two television channels: Channel U and Channel i, as well as two radio stations: UFM 1003 and WKRZ 91.3FM. It merged with the city-state's long-established broadcasting company, Mediacorp, in 2004.

John Klass is a singer/producer/songwriter/radio presenter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fauziah Ibrahim</span> Australian journalist

Fauziah Ibrahim is a Singaporean Australian news presenter.

Medalina "Maddy" Barber is a Singaporean radio presenter, businesswoman and former actress. She is currently the co-presenter of the breakfast show on Kiss 92FM together with Jason Johnson and Divian Nair, and was previously a presenter on Perfect Ten 98.7FM and Hot FM 91.3.

Jason Francis Johnson is a radio presenter from Canada who had co-presented the breakfast show on Kiss 92FM in Singapore together with Maddy Barber and Divian Nair. He was previously a movie and music reviewer for the Singapore newspaper The New Paper.

Shan Wee is a radio presenter and media personality from Northern Ireland who presents the lunchtime show on One FM 91.3 in Singapore. He was previously a presenter on Singapore radio stations 987FM and Kiss92FM.

Joshua Simon is a radio presenter and music artist from Singapore. He currently presents the evening show on Kiss 92FM. He was previously a DJ on One FM 91.3 from 2012 to 2016.

Caroline Jane "Carol" Smith is a radio presenter from Singapore. She currently co-presents the morning show on One FM 91.3 with Lavinia Tan. She was previously a presenter on Class 95FM from 2007 to 2011 and with Kiss92 from 2017 to 2022.

References

  1. ↑ Arnold Gay is a seriously funny guy, The Straits Times, 15 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Singapore Press Holdings Ltd – Arnold Gay, Bloomberg L.P.. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  3. ↑ Kiss92 is top English music station, The New Paper, 20 June 2014.
  4. ↑ Kiss92 FM’s morning trio on breakfast habits, The New Paper, 2 July 2014.
  5. ↑ Arnold Gay, Kiss92 FM Archived 15 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine , SPH Radio. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.