Caldecott Hill

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Caldecott Hill
Name transcription(s)
 •  Chinese 加利谷山
 •  Malay Bukit Caldecott
 •  Tamil கால்டிகாட்
CC17 Caldecott MRT Exit A.jpg
Country Singapore

Caldecott Hill is a private housing estate, located along Thomson Road in the Central Region of Singapore. The estate is served by Caldecott MRT station, on both the Circle and Thomson-East Coast MRT lines.

The site had historically been used for radio and television broadcasting; the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation established its studio at Caldecott Hill in 1937. Its successor Radio Malaya broadcast from Caldecott Hill until after Malaya's declaration of independence in 1957, when it relocated its main studio to Kuala Lumpur, and the new regional station Radio Singapura began broadcasting from its former studio. [1]

After Singapore's declaration of independence, Radio Television Singapore moved its television stations to a new $3.6 million studio at Caldecott Hill in 1966. [2] RTS's successors, including current state-owned broadcaster Mediacorp, continued to operate from Caldecott Hill until 2015, when Mediacorp relocated to a new corporate campus at One-north. [3]

The old campus at Andrew Road was left abandoned until October 2020, when Mediacorp officially put the land up for sale, and appointed real estate consultants to market the area to hold 67 bungalow plots. [4] [5] In December 2020, the land was sold for $280.9 million to Kuok Khoon Hong and his company Perennial Real Estate Holdings. [6]

Etymology

Caldecott Hill is named after respected British colonial administrator and former Governor of Hong Kong Sir Andrew Caldecott, who had served in various posts around British Malaya (Officer Administering the Government of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States in 1934) for nearly three decades.

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References

  1. ↑ Teh Liam Seng (19 March 2017). "The sound of history". New Straits Times . Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "New home for TV..." The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 27 August 1966. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "New logo a 'window to the world' as Mediacorp opens new campus". TODAYonline. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "REVEALED: How Mediacorp's original plan for Caldecott Hill went up in smoke". 99.co. 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  5. ↑ "Mediacorp puts up 7ha site of former Caldecott Broadcast Centre for sale, redevelopment into bungalows". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  6. ↑ Leong, Grace (2020-12-15). "Mediacorp's former Caldecott site sold for $280.9 million to Perennial Real Estate entity". The Straits Times. ISSN   0585-3923 . Retrieved 2024-03-29.

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