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.
Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad, operating as TV3, is a Malaysian free-to-air television channel owned by Malaysian media conglomerate, Media Prima. TV3 is the third oldest TV station in Malaysia. It was launched on 1 June 1984 as the country's first and oldest private television channel. As of October 2021, TV3 remains to be the most-watched television station in Malaysia with about 17% of its viewing share among other Malaysian television stations, followed by TV9 with 15% of its viewing share, making two of them become the second most-watched television station in the country, despite the declining viewership of 3 free-to-air television channels.
The following lists events that happened during 1995 in Singapore.
RCTI is a West Jakarta-based Indonesian free-to-air television network. It is best known for its soap operas, celebrity bulletins, news, and sports programmes. It was first launched in 1989, originally as a local pay television operator that broadcasts mostly foreign programmes, before switching to free-to-air terrestrial network a year later.
PT Global Informasi Bermutu, operating as GTV, which is an initialism derived from its previous name, Global TV, is an Indonesian free-to-air television network. It was launched on 8 October 2002. Originally a music television channel as MTV broadcaster in Indonesia and Asia, GTV shifted its focus to general entertainment programming targeting young adults. Currently, the broadcaster airs news, soap opera, reality and game shows, along with Nickelodeon animation series and anime, making up its programming schedule. It is owned by Media Nusantara Citra (MNC), which also owns RCTI, MNCTV and iNews.
TVRI, legally Lembaga Penyiaran Publik (LPP) Televisi Republik Indonesia is an Indonesian national public television network. Established on 24 August 1962, it is the oldest television network in the country. Its national headquarters is in Gelora, Central Jakarta.
The mass media in Indonesia consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based websites.
Astro Aruna was a 24-hour Indonesian pay language television network that was available on the Astro satellite television service.
Prambors FM is a national commercial-public/state media contemporary hit radio based in Jakarta and surrounding areas officially formal full opened broadcast took place in Jakarta metropolitan area on 18 March 1971 was to play pop music with target audience for teenagers. Prambors is known as a teenager icon in Indonesia from 1970s to now. It is owned and operated by Masima Radio Network. Prambors FM plays around all full Western Top 40 music along with I-Radio 101,4 FM Jakarta Mustang 88 FM. Prambors' full name is Prambors Rasisonia, which stands for Prambanan, Mendut, Borobudur dan Sekitarnya serta Radio Siaran Sosial Niaga. The radio station's officially tagline and slogan is "Indonesia's Number 1 Hit Music Station". Prambors was officially similar and related to Capital's Capital London and Capital Xtra in the United Kingdom, iHeartMedia's Z100 New York based in New York metropolitan area, iHeartMedia's KIIS-FM based in Greater Los Angeles, Mediacorp 987 in the Singapore–Johor Bahru/Johor Bahru District–Batam/Batam Islands, Hitz in the Malaysia and The Edge based in Auckland.
Television in Indonesia started in 1962, when the then state-run station TVRI began broadcasting – the third country in Southeast Asia to do so. TVRI held a television monopoly in Indonesia until 1989 when the first commercial station, RCTI began as a local station and was subsequently granted a national license a year later. The Indonesian television is regulated by both Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Kemenkominfo) and Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI).
Masters of the Sea was a 1994 Singapore English drama series produced by the Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) based on The Bold and the Beautiful series from United States. It was the first full-length Singapore English drama series to be produced in Singapore officially opened on Wednesday, 12 October 1994 to Wednesday, 5 April 1995. This drama serial consists of 26 episodes. The drama began production on 1 March 1994 and completed on 30 June 1994 durated 4 months. This drama was aired on Singapore's national free-to-air terrestrial channel by Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) Channel 5 every Wednesday from 10:00pm to 10:30pm SST duration time 30 minutes before News 5 Tonight with audio language localised into Singapore English/Singlish dubbed. The series starred Wong Li-Lin, Ng Chin Han, Irene Ng, Bryan Wong, Lim Kay Tong and Donald Li.
PT MNC Televisi Indonesia, operating as MNCTV is an Indonesian private television network. It was founded on 23 January 1990, at first broadcasting only educational programmes, but has since become similar to other Indonesian TV networks, showing programs such as quizzes, sinetron, reality TV shows, sports shows, newscasts, and recently, dangdut music.
FIFA, through several companies, sold the rights for the broadcast of the 1998 FIFA World Cup to the following broadcasters.
Digital terrestrial television in Indonesia (DVB-T2) started in 2009, and in most areas runs alongside the analogue TV system. The phase 1 of nationwide analog shutdown will be done in 166 regencies and cities, including Dumai, Banda Aceh, Batam, Tanjungpinang, Serang, Bali, Samarinda, Tanjung Selor, Tarakan, Makassar and Jayapura started from 30 April 2022 and it simplified in three stages. Analog broadcasting station in Jakarta along with 173 regencies/cities non-terrestrial services was officially signed off on 2 November 2022 at midnight. Batam, Bandung, Semarang, Surakarta and Yogyakarta followed on 2 December 2022, followed by Surabaya on 20 December 2022, Banjarmasin on 20 March 2023, Bali and Palembang on 31 March 2023, Makassar on 20 June 2023 and Medan on 30 July 2023. On 15 July 2023 at stroke of midnight, Trans Media and Emtek/SCM officially completed the shutdown. On 31 July 2023 at stroke of midnight, Viva Group, RTV and NET TV officially completed the shutdown of analog broadcast nationwide followed by MNC Group on 1 August 2023 at stroke of midnight. On 12 August 2023, the digital terrestrial television of Indonesia fully turned, shifted and switched to all high definition on all thirteen local free-to-air terrestrial television station.
Charles Bonar Sirait is a professional, public figure and famous television presenter in Indonesia.
iNews is an Indonesian free-to-air television network founded by Media Nusantara Citra, a subsidiary of Global Mediacom unit of MNC Asia Holding. It broadcasting 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
TVRI World is an Indonesian television channel owned by public broadcaster TVRI, catered for domestic and international audience. The English-language channel is currently on its trial broadcast, with its planned launching in 2024. The channel is domestically available in digital terrestrial, satellite, and TVRI Klik streaming service.
TVRI is the main national public television channel owned by LPP Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI). The channel began broadcasting on 24 August 1962, making it the first television station in Indonesia. The channel was also the only television channel choice in Indonesia until 1989, when Programa Dua TVRI in Jakarta broadcast separately from TVRI and private television stations began broadcasting.
