Mediacorp

Mediacorp Pte. Ltd.

Flat version of the 2015 logo, used as the primary on-screen logo as of 2023[update]
Mediacorp Campus in One-north, the headquarters of Mediacorp
Company type	State-owned
Industry	Mass media Public broadcasting
Predecessors	Radio Singapura (1945–1965) Television Singapura (1961–1965) Radio Television Singapore (1965–1980) Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (1980–1994) Singapore International Media (1994–1999)
Founded	1 June 1936; 87 years ago (1936-06-01)
Headquarters	1 Stars Avenue (Mediapolis@onenorth), Singapore
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Niam Chiang Meng (Chairman) Tham Loke Kheng (CEO)
Products	Broadcasting web portals
Services	Television radio online
Revenue	US$750.8 million
Number of employees	3,000 (2022)
Parent	Temasek Holdings
Website	mediacorp.sg

Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. is a state-owned public media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the investment arm of the Government of Singapore—it owns and operates television channels, radio, and digital media properties. As of 2022, Mediacorp employs over 3,000 staff in total with a larger part of them are in both public and private sector broadcasting.^[1]

The company forms half of the mass media duopoly in the country alongside SPH Media Trust; the company was established in its current form in 1999, following the 1994 privatization of one of its predecessors—the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC)—as a group of state-owned enterprises known as Singapore International Media.

Mediacorp holds a monopoly on terrestrial broadcasting in Singapore, operating five generalist channels broadcasting in the official languages of English (Channel 5), Mandarin Chinese (Channel 8 and Channel U), Malay (Suria), and Tamil (Vasantham), as well as the pan-Asian news network CNA, and streaming service meWatch. It also operates the websites Today and 8days, which had previously operated as print publications.

Its monopoly on terrestrial television was briefly broken in the early-2000s by SPH MediaWorks. In 2004, amid struggles at its two channels, SPH sold the MediaWorks subsidiary to MediaCorp in exchange for stakes in its television and publishing businesses; only its Chinese-language Channel U would continue under MediaCorp. SPH divested its stake in MediaCorp in 2017 after Today ceased print publication.