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Mediacorp Channel U

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Mediacorp Channel U or Channel U (U频道; pinyin: U Píndào) is Singapore's second free-to-air Mandarin television channel in Singapore. [1]

40 relations: Analog television, Campus SuperStar, Channel NewsAsia, Chinese language, Digital television, DVB-C, DVB-T2, Free-to-air, Gala Television, High-definition television, Hong Kong, Jeanette Aw, Korea, Mandarin Chinese, Mediacorp, Mediacorp Channel 5, Mediacorp Channel 8, Mediacorp HD5, Mediacorp Suria, Mediacorp Vasantham, Okto, Pinyin, Singapore, Singapore Standard Time, Singtel TV, SPH MediaWorks, SPH MediaWorks Channel U, Standard-definition television, StarHub TV, Taiwan, Television advertisement, Television channel, Television Corporation of Singapore, Wang Zheng (newsreader), Zhang Haijie, Zhao Quan Yin, Zhao Wen Bei, 100% Entertainment, 1080i, 576i.

Analog television

Analog television or analogue television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio.

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Campus SuperStar

Campus SuperStar is a Singaporean reality television singing competition to find new singing talent, contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions.

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Channel NewsAsia

Channel NewsAsia (abbreviated CNA) is a 24-hour television news channel and news agency based in Singapore, broadcasting free-to-air domestically and by cable television and satellite television to 28 territories in Asia, the Middle East and Australia.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Digital television

Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals, including the sound channel, using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier television technology, analog television, in which the video and audio are carried by analog signals.

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DVB-C

DVB-C stands for "Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable" and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital television over cable.

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DVB-T2

DVB-T2 is an abbreviation for "Digital Video Broadcasting — Second Generation Terrestrial"; it is the extension of the television standard DVB-T, issued by the consortium DVB, devised for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television.

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Free-to-air

Free-to-air (FTA) are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in clear (unencrypted) form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription, other ongoing cost or one-off fee (e.g. Pay-per-view).

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Gala Television

Gala Television Corporation is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by the Gala Television Corporation, established on June 13, 1997.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) is a television system providing an image resolution that is of substantially higher resolution than that of standard-definition television, either analog or digital.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Jeanette Aw

Jeanette Aw Ee-Ping (born 28 June 1979), better known by her stage name Ou Xuan (欧萱), is a Mediacorp actress, filmmaker and author.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Mediacorp

Mediacorp Pte.

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Mediacorp Channel 5

Mediacorp Channel 5 (Chinese: 5頻道, Before 1 January 2005: 新加坡電視 (English: "Television Singapore") 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. Programmes on Channel 5 normally include English dramas either made in-house or obtained from overseas, 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.

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Mediacorp Channel 8

Mediacorp Channel 8 or Channel 8 (Before 1 January 2005: 第八波道) is Singapore's first free-to-air Mandarin television channel in Singapore. It is the first of two Singapore Mandarin over-the-air television channels in Singapore, with the other being Mediacorp Channel U. It was created by Radio and Television Singapore (RTS) on 23 November 1963 as Singapore's only Chinese-medium channel. From 6 May 2001 to 31 December 2004, it serves as an alternative Chinese channel to SPH MediaWorks Channel U. After SPH MediaWorks and Mediacorp merged on 1 January 2005, it now serves as a complementary to Mediacorp Channel U.

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Mediacorp HD5

Mediacorp HD5 or HD5 (Chinese: 高清5頻道, formerly known as MediaCorp TV HDTV or HDTV) is Singapore's first 24-hour digital free-to-air high-definition television channel, simulcasting high-definition version of Mediacorp Channel 5 programming when available. It is the first digital terrestrial television broadcast high-definition channel in Southeast Asia and also first in the world to use MPEG4/AVC compression. There are about 10-hours of True HD programmes shown on HD5 every week. The types of programmes include movies, dramas and local productions. At other times, HD5 shows simulcast of upconverted Mediacorp Channel 5 broadcast. On 1 January 2007, MediaCorp officially rolled out its HD5 television signal. Since late 2013, Channel 5 (via DVB-T2) has been simulcast with this channel due to the start of digital TV in Singapore and the channel has been just simply known as "Channel 5 HD". However, a DVB-T version (alongside Channel 5, Channel 8 and Channel NewsAsia) with hard encoded subtitles was available until 28 February 2017. It ceased starting 1 March 2017 due to general availability of these services on DVB-T2 and to free up radio specturm.

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Mediacorp Suria

Mediacorp Suria or more commonly known as Suria (Malay: "Sun") is a Singaporean Malay language channel owned by Mediacorp, broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel broadcasts popular Malay television programmes whether they are made locally in-house or acquired from neighbouring countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia.

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Mediacorp Vasantham

Mediacorp Vasantham (வசந்தம்) is a Singapore Tamil language entertainment free-to-view commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Mediacorp, a subsidiary of Government of Singapore's Sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings. The channel currently broadcast from Mediacorp headquarters, Caldecott Broadcast Centre but will shift its operation to newly built Mediacorp Campus this coming September 2016. The channel dedicated to the Singaporean Indians in Singapore. Vasantham originally launched on 1 September 1995 an English children's and highbrow channel named Premiere 12. Tamil programmes were included on 30 January 2000, when it was renamed Central, and later relaunched as a standalone Tamil channel on 19 October 2008. Programmes in Tamil and other Indian languages have increased from 29 to 69 hours each week. With the extended hours, there are more reality programmes, live talk shows, reruns and the introduction of long form dramas.

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Okto

Okto, stylised as okto, is a television channel in Singapore, managed by Mediacorp and caters to the youths and young adults of Singapore, similar to Channel U. It was formerly known as MediaCorp TV12 Central and airs on the frequency 495.25 MHz.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Singapore Standard Time

Singapore Standard Time (SST) or Waktu Piawai Singapura (WPS), also known as Singapore Time (SGT), is used in Singapore and is 8 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+08:00).

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Singtel TV

Singtel TV (formerly known as Singapore Telecom IPTV and mio TV) is a 24-hour pay television service introduced by Singapore Telecom.

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SPH MediaWorks

SPH MediaWorks Ltd was a free-to-air terrestrial television broadcaster in Singapore that operated two television channels: Channel U and Channel i. It merged with the city-state's long-established broadcasting company, Mediacorp, in 2004.

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SPH MediaWorks Channel U

SPH MediaWorks Channel U, commonly known as Channel U, is a defunct Singapore Mandarin language terrestrial television station channel in Singapore.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV or SD) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high- or enhanced-definition.

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StarHub TV

StarHub TV is the sole cable television operator in Singapore (it was the sole pay-TV operator in the country until 2007 when mio TV, an IPTV service from its competitor, SingTel, was launched).

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a television commercial, commercial or ad in American English, and known in British English as a TV advert or simply an advert) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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Television channel

A television channel is a broadcast frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed.

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Television Corporation of Singapore

Television Corporation of Singapore (Abbreviation: TCS; Singapore Mandarin: 新加坡电视机构 (Abbreviation: 新视); Malaysian: Perbadanan Televisyen Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் தொலைக்காட்சிக் கழகம்) was a television broadcasting services in the then-monopolised media industry in Singapore.

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Wang Zheng (newsreader)

Wang Zheng (pinyin: Wáng Zhēng) is a Singaporean - based News Anchor contracted under MediaCorp.

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Zhang Haijie

Zhang Haijie (born 28 August 1971) is a Singaporean - based News Anchor contracted under MediaCorp.

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Zhao Quan Yin

Zhao Quan Yin (pinyin: Zhào Quányìn) is a Singaporean - based News Anchor contracted under MediaCorp.

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Zhao Wen Bei

Zhao Wen Bei (pinyin: Zhào Wénbèi) is a Singaporean - based News Anchor contracted under MediaCorp.

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100% Entertainment

100% Entertainment is a Taiwanese daily entertainment news and variety show broadcast on GTV Variety Show.

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1080i

1080i (also known as Full HD or BT.709) is an abbreviation referring to a combination of frame resolution and scan type, used in high-definition television (HDTV) and high-definition video.

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576i

576i is a standard-definition video mode originally used for broadcast television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediacorp_Channel_U

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