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MediaCorp Channel 5 (Chinese: 5頻道, Before 31 December 2004: 新加坡電視 (English: "Televisyen Singapura") and 第5波道 (English: "Saluran 5" and "5th Frequency") is a 24-hour English general news and entertainment free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore. From its major revamp in 2015 and as part of SG50, its main mission is to promote a happier and more enlightened Singapore. Believing strongly in the provision of wholesome entertainment, good family and community values, good racial harmony, good corporate citizenship, and the promotion of national integration, the station works on an appointment-based programming concept reflecting its philosophy of being "It's Good to be Home on 5". Programmes on Channel 5 normally include English drama (both foreign imports and locally-made), movies, sports, reality show, variety show, news, current affairs and game show programmes. Local editions of overseas programmes like ''Singapore Idol'', ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' and ''Deal or No Deal'' have also been produced. ==History== Channel 5 was launched as its first pilot television service on 15 February 1963 at 18:00 SST as "Televisyen Singapura (Chinese: 新加坡電視)". The channel operated 2 hours of monochrome service as test transmissions. Channel 5 officially inaugurated its regular television broadcast service on 2 April 1963 at 19:15 SST as "Saluran 5 Televisyen Singapura (Chinese: 新加坡電視第5波道)", although the station also aired Mandarin programmes at the time. Its sister station Saluran 8 Televisyen Singapura (Chinese: 新加坡電視第8波道) was launched on 23 November 1963 with a mix of Chinese and Tamil language programmes. Following separation from Malaysia, radio became Radio Singapore and television became Television Singapura. Operations were merged into ''Radio Television Singapore'' (RTS, Chinese: 新加坡廣播電視)" and it was relocated from Singapore Television Centre to Caldecott Broadcast Centre on 27 August 1966. Channel 5 began its first colour television signal on 1 May 1974, with one of the few colour programmes such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Black Beauty and broadcast the first live colour telecast of the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final between West Germany and Netherlands via satellite transmission on 7 July 1974. Channel 5 (along with Channel 8) broadcast its first ever National Day Parade in colour live on 9 August 1974 direct from the Padang grounds in both English and Malay. Channel 5 started their full-time colour broadcasts (along with Channel 8) on 1 November 1977. RTS officially became the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC, Chinese: 新加坡廣播局) on 1 February 1980. Channel 5 along with Channel 8 and Channel 12 officially began broadcasting in stereo on 1 August 1990, in conjunction with Singapore's 25th National Day. Channel 5 officially revamp the channel logo for a new look and Malay programmes were transferred to Channel 12 (now Suria), which went on to became a full-fledged English channel on 1 January 1994 at 00:00 SST. However on Channel 12, Malay programmes were being broadcast and Channel 5 later worked on an appointment-based programming concept reflecting its philosophy of being Where It All Happens. Channel 5 officially began broadcasting breakfast programmes on a weekday basis. "AM Singapore" premiered on 29 August 1994 at 06:00 SST. Channel 5 was privatized on 1 October 1994 as SBC was privatised into a new holding company's Singapore International Media (SIM Group of Companies, Chinese: 新加坡國際傳媒機構) to own our television and radio form 3-companies such: Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS, Chinese: 新加坡電視機構), Radio Corporation of Singapore (RCS, Chinese: 新加坡廣播電台機構) and Singapore Television Twelve (STV12, Chinese: 新加坡電視12). Channel 5 officially began broadcasting 24-hours a day on 29 September 1995 while Channel 8 began broadcasting 24 hours a day permanently on 1 September 1995 (which is 4 weeks earlier). Channel 5 was re-structured again on 12 February 2001 as TCS, RCS and STV12 became MediaCorp TV (Chinese: 新傳媒電視), MediaCorp Radio (Chinese: 新傳媒廣播電台) and MediaCorp TV12 (Chinese: 新傳媒電視12). On 1 January 2007 at 00:00 SST, HD5 was launched and Channel 5 became the first digital terrestrial television station in Singapore to broadcast in high-definition and this channel is currently upgraded to HD with using DVB-T2 version and on 1 December 2013, Channel 8, Suria and Vasantham began broadcasting in HD. On 15 February 2013, MediaCorp TV celebrated its 50-year anniversary of television. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MediaCorp Channel 5」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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