Singapore Tonight

Singapore Tonight is a long-running flagship daily national news programme on CNA which runs daily from 22:00 until 23:00 SST/HKT (21:00 until 22:00 WIB/BKK) on weekdays and 22:00 until 22:30 SST/HKT (21:00 until 21:30 WIB/BKK) on weekends/public holidays, providing a round-up of all the day's events around Singapore and coverage of breaking news. The highly rated programme is currently presented mainly by Steve Lai, Dawn Tan & Elizabeth Neo (Business) on weekdays, and Jill Neubronner on weekends.

Singapore Tonight
StarringSteve Lai, Dawn Tan, Elizabeth Neo (Business) (Weekdays)
Country of originSingapore
Original languageEnglish
Production
Camera setupNews
Running time60 minutes (22:00 until 23:00 SST/HKT).
Production companyMediaCorp News
DistributorMediaCorp TV
Release
Original networkCNA
Picture formatHDTV (1080i 16:9)
Audio formatStereo
Dolby Digital 5.1
First shown in1 March 1999
Original release1 March 1999 (1999-03-01) –
now

History

Up until early July 2008, the show was aired live only in Singapore with a replay available internationally at 00:00 until 00:30 SST/HKT (01:00 until 01:30 WIB/BKK). In addition, a few segments of the show are available on the international edition of Asian Home News at 22:30 until 23:00 SST/HKT (22:30 until 00:00 WIB/BKK) and 10:30 until 11:00 SST/HKT (11:30 until 12:00 WIB/BKK).

From 31 March 2014, the programme was expanded to 1 hour to incorporate the Singapore Business segment (previously aired as Business Singapore / Singapore Business Tonight at 22:30 (GMT+8) ) and features two main anchors, Steven Chia and Dawn Tan. John Leong replaced Steven Chia on a permanent basis from 7 November.[1]

Singapore Tonight is one of only two main English national newscasts available in Singapore; the other being Channel 5's News Tonight.

Presenters

Main presenters
  • Steve Lai
  • Dawn Tan
  • Elizabeth Neo (Business)

Relief presenters
  • John Leong
  • Jill Neubronner
  • Angela Lim
  • Otelli Edwards
  • Christine Chan
  • Eugenia Lim (Business)

References
  1. http://instagram.com/p/vFdXy_Hwdx/

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