History
Channel 8 officially began their broadcasting on 23 November 1963 as "Saluran 8 Television Singapura" is the first free-to-air television station in Singapore that broadcasts in Chinese although the station also aired Tamil programmes at the time of daily transmissions were subsequently extended to 5 hours in weekday and 10 hours in weekend.
Its sister station Saluran 5 Television Singapura was launched on 2 April 1963 with a mix of Singapore English and Malay language programmes.
Following separation from Malaysia Radio become Radio Singapura and television become Television Singapura. It was integrated to "Radio and Television of Singapore (RTS)". This led to many expansions including a move to the new $3.6 million Television Centre in Caldecott Hill on 27 August 1966.
Channel 8 begin colour television signal on 1 May 1974 and broadcast the first live colour telecast is 1974 FIFA World Cup Final between West Germany and Netherlands via satellite transmission on 7 July 1974.
Channel 8 was the first live colour television channel (along with Channel 5) to broadcast the National Day Parade in colour on August 9, 1974.
Channel 8 started their full-time colour broadcasts (along with Channel 5) on 1 November 1977.
Channel 8 was initiated on 1 February 1980 by the RTS which became Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) (Chinese: 新廣第八波道).
Although its sister channel, Channel 5, became a full-fledged English channel on New Year's Day 1994 but Channel 8 continued broadcasting in Mandarin and Tamil until both channels commenced 24 hour broadcasts in 1995.
Channel 8 began broadcasting 24 hours a day on 27 September 1995 along with Channel 5. By September 1995, the Tamil programmes were transferred to Prime 12 (now Vasantham).
Channel 8 was privatized on 12 February 2001 as TCS became MediaCorp TV(Chinese: 新傳媒電視第八波道).
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