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The station was awarded a licence in 1935 under the auspices of the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation. Initially set for a 1936 launch target, the station eventually delayed its launch to 1 March 1937, roughly two months after the expiry of the previous radio station in Singapore, ZHI. The new
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aimed at the local population in English, Chinese dialects, Malay and Tamil. Over time, its language-based programmes were diffused into separate stations serving specific language groups, leaving ZHL as the English-language service of Radio Singapore. On 1 January 1982, the
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One FM became Gold 90.5 on 2 July 1998, playing music from the 1970s, golden oldies and country, with plans to include contemporary jazz and Latin American pop. News-heavy content would move to
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On 28 October 1989, Radio 1 began airing "mellow, middle-of-the-road music" on weekday afternoons through a seven-hour programme block.
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Until late-1945, the station, as the country's then-sole extant radio station, broadcast language-based
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in 1967. On 1 January 1994, AM broadcasting was discontinued in Singapore in favour of FM.
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is an English-language radio station in Singapore. Owned by the state-owned broadcaster
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The station traces its origins to the beginning of regulated radio broadcasting in
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rebranded its stations, with the English service being rebranded as
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format until 1998, when news programming was relocated to the new
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frequency of 630 kHz (which remained unchanged after the
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on 1 March 1937; it initially broadcast on AM under the
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station carried the callsign ZHL, and broadcast on an
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