Singapore Tonight

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Singapore Tonight
StarringDawn Tan (Weekdays), Jill Neubronner (Weekends)
Opening theme"The News Today" by Clive Lukover
Country of origin Singapore
Original languageEnglish
Production
Camera setup News
Running time60 minutes (22:00 until 23:00 SST/HKT).
Production company Mediacorp News
Original release
Network CNA
Release1 March 1999 (1999-03-01) 
present

Singapore Tonight is a long-running flagship daily national news programme on CNA which runs daily from 22:00 until 23:00 SST/HKT (21:00 until 22:00 WIB/BKK) on weekdays and 22:00 until 22:30 SST/HKT (21:00 until 21:30 WIB/BKK) on weekends/public holidays, providing a round-up of all the day's events around Singapore, as well as coverage of breaking news and occasional global stories relevant to Singaporeans. The highly rated programme is currently presented mainly by Dawn Tan on weekdays, and Jill Neubronner on weekends.

History

Up until early July 2008, the show was aired live only in Singapore with a replay available internationally at 00:00 until 00:30 SST/HKT (01:00 until 01:30 WIB/BKK). In addition, a few segments of the show are available on the international edition of Asian Home News at 22:30 until 23:00 SST/HKT (22:30 until 00:00 WIB/BKK) and 10:30 until 11:00 SST/HKT (11:30 until 12:00 WIB/BKK).

From 31 March 2014, the programme was expanded to 1 hour to incorporate the Singapore Business segment (previously aired as Business Singapore / Singapore Business Tonight at 22:30 (GMT+8) ) and features two main anchors, Steven Chia and Dawn Tan. John Leong replaced Steven Chia on a permanent basis from 7 November. [1] On 18 November 2021, long time presenter Steve Lai ended his appearances on Singapore Tonight and began the following week with Asia First. Loke Wei Sue took his place. Main Business presenter Elizabeth Neo also ended her appearances on Singapore Tonight on 31 March 2023 and joined Steve Lai with Asia First starting on the week of 17 April 2023. Her place has since been replaced by either one of the main presenters, or occasionally Roland Lim. With effect from 15 April 2024, weekdays telecast have been downsized from two presenters to one, with the show now presented mainly by Dawn Tan, whose appearance on Asia Tonight have also ended concurrently with the changing bulletin arrangements. Long time presenter Loke Wei Sue in contrast, has ended her appearance on this bulletin and became the sole presenter for Asia Tonight.

Singapore Tonight is one of only two main English national newscasts available in Singapore; the other being Channel 5's News Tonight.

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  1. "Steven Chia on Instagram: "To the CNA night production crew. Thanks guys! It's been a blast. Without you we'd never look this good."".