Ven Chin - Mediacorp Channel 8
Ven Chin- mediacorp Channel 8
Ven Chin was being featured by Mediacorp’s Channel 8, the Top TV Channel in Singapore, on winning the Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 Award
Ven Chin is a Serial Entrepreneur and has won multi awards in Singapore and Australia.
Channel 8 began its test transmissions on Sunday, 1 September 1963 as an ad-hoc channel for special events. Its first day of test transmissions began with additional highlights of the 1963 Southeast Asia Cultural Festival, followed by a sports coverage with the Athletics triangular meet in Farrer Park, the premiere of the 1959 Hindi movie, Chhoti Bahen, a Malay variety special "Puisirama" (a combination of poetry and Malay music) and concluded with a Chinese classical film.
Following the separation from Malaysia on 9 August 1965, Channel 8 became part of Television Singapore, and was later integrated as part of "Radio Television Singapore". This led to the expansions of the network, including a move to the new $3.6 million Television Centre in Caldecott Hill on 27 August 1966.
Channel 8 began broadcasting in colour on 1 May 1974. In 1978, all its Chinese language programming as well as advertisements, as a result of the government's Speak Mandarin Campaign, were broadcast solely in the Mandarin dialect.
