Although programming in
Chinese dialects was carried by the extant Singaporean radio station in its several incarnations from 1937 to 1945, it wasn't until 23 December 1945 where a de facto separate service in Chinese and Indian dialects, the
Red Network, was created. Strictly speaking, an all-Chinese service was announced in December 1950, with the launch date set for 1 January 1951. The new network was known as the
Green Network. One of the aims of the new service was to counter Communist propaganda in the region (alongside the Malay service). The station broadcast on 72 metres (7200
kilocycles, later redefined to 680 kHz on
AM medium wave) from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. nightly, and was moved to 675 kHz in 1978 to conform with the
Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975. The station began
FM transmissions on 95.8 MHz in 1967, and was renamed
Radio 3 in 1982. With the launch of the
contemporary mandopop station
YES 933 in 1990, Radio 3 pivoted its programming to include more infotainment programmes during the daytime and early-evening hours. A new block of arts and cultural programming would now air from 8 to 10 p.m., including a programme of news bulletins in
Hokkien,
Cantonese,
Teochew,
Hainanese,
Hakka and
Fuzhounese at 8 p.m. (each of which lasting three to five minutes), and
Chinese operas. The AM signals of all SBC stations were discontinued on 1 January 1994. In preparation for 24-hour broadcasts in December 1994, City Sounds recruited six new deejays: three of them from mainland China. The new deejays were under 30. The station also trained the China-born deejays to speak clearly to make them understandable to local listeners. RCS also had problems replacing its current batch of dialect newsreaders, Although the news scripts were the same as Mandarin, the script readers would need to improvise due to the differences in the structures of each dialect. The dialect news broadcasts also suffered from a lack of funding and professional newsreaders, with listeners preferring dialect songs than dialect news. On 8 February 2017, the station moved from its long-time home of
Caldecott Hill to the new Mediacorp campus at
One-north. == See also ==