Saturday, September 19, 2020

Cable Radio

Founded in 1949, Rediffusion (丽的呼声) is a London based company made into Singapore as a cable radio company and currently into digital services and touted itself as Singapore's only subscription radio services. During the 60 and 70, it is a common sight in every coffeeshop over the island there are the Golden Channel which broadcasts in Chinese including dialects such as storytellers Lee Dai Sor in Cantonese, Ng Chia Kheng in Teochew, Chong Soon Fatt in Hakka and the famous of all is Ong Toh in Hokkien for its martial art kungfu series. At his heydays, there are around 9600 subscribers and at a cost of   $5.00 per month and slowly the fans based grows around 100,000 the end came when the government stop all dialects speaking program with its Speak Mandarin Campaign it changes hand in 2003 than in 2012 they announced that they will stop broadcasting by end April then former DJ Eva Chang Mei Hsiang bought over the Rediffusion Brand.