Compare and contrast the evolution of Broadcast TV, both outside, and within Singapore. Based on the comparisons, share 2 observations you have, on the Singapore Broadcast TV landscape. by Aaron Tan https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh en-us 2018-05-18 00:54:28 UTC 2025-10-27 11:05:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Kingston https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535021898 Singapore seems to be setting up more stations than overseas possibly due to the fact that we are multi-racial. Eg. stations such as Vasantham or okto.
Secondly, due to the fact that we are one of the few countries which are multi-racial across the world. The environment here is cosy enough where we are able to gather people from different backgrounds to film a lot of local content. ]]> 2020-04-28 01:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535021898 Christine https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535029785 Observation 1: Speed. 
The US/outside is typically about about a decade ahead of SG in terms in of the speed of technological development. 
(E.g US radio 1920, SG radio 1936) 

Observation 2: 
Priority is given to entertainment over News/Current affairs. 
Singapore only had a dedicated news channel approx 15yrs aft it set up a Chinese DRAMA division. 
]]> 2020-04-28 01:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535029785 Yusraa https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535039479 1)The broadcast TV landscape in Singapore focuses more on locally produced content as compared to the US/outside. This is probably to suit what is most  familiar to its audience/consumers.(E.g international channels only came in around 2002)

2)Singapore's broadcast TV landscape advances much slower as compared to the US/outside landscape. Singapore takes a longer time to adapt to new changes or to keep up with the global broadcast TV landscape. Advancements in Singapore were more gradual in a sense as compared to the US/outside which was much more rapid and updated. (E.g Netflix launched in 2007 in the US but only came into Singapore in 2016.)]]> 2020-04-28 01:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535039479 Chloe https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535040890
  • At the beginning from the 1920s to 1980s, Singapore had been behind US and the rest of the world in terms of the development of television and content broadcasted such as the Rediffusion’s development after US cable television.
  • From the 1990s onwards, the focus of Singapore and US and the rest of the world seemed to differ, with that of Singapore shifting to the creation of more channels and programmes on cable television while that of US being the development of the first subscription shrive Netflix to increase ease of access to different programmes.
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  • In the larger global context, Singapore’s Broadcast TV landscape is relatively young compared to the Broadcast TV landscapes in other countries such as the USA. For example, when Singapore launched Broadcast TV in 1963, it was not as advanced or established as the USA - which had established their Broadcast TV landscape through cable television in 1948 and eventually had US colour broadcast television by 1966.
  • Still being a fairly young nation, while the USA launched Netflix in 2007, Singapore only launched Netflix in 2016, as there was heavy emphasis on growing Singapore’s homegrown television programmes before investing in non-local television.

    • ]]>     2020-04-28 01:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535042618     Celestyn https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535048324 1. As compared to the development of Broadcast TV in the US and other countries, Singapore's broadcast TV landscape can be considered relatively new. This can be seen where colour broadcasting have been introduced to the US in 1966 while it was only known to Singapore in 1974.

    2. Singapore were more focused towards their local production/content varying from English and Chinese dramas to diverse channels such as Okto, Vasantham. Unlike US that was only bounded by English related content.]]>     2020-04-28 01:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535048324     Zhi Hao https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535051122 Singapore in the past was more oriented towards a Chinese and English-speaking populace but in near recent history, has been working towards increasing diversity on screen in terms of content provided and new broadcasting channels being put in place. This seems to mirror the drive by the Singaporean government to promote the cosmopolitan melting pot culture that is Singapore. This can be seeing with new channels like Vasantham being set up to cater to the interests of a Tamil-speaking audience.

    Comparatively speaking, Singapore can be said to be slow to respond to changes and disruptions in the television industry. This can be seen in the release of Netflix in Singapore being several years behind as compared to the US. The speed at which Singapore adapts to international changes can be seen as gradual, rather than direct and fast to adapt due to their tendency of heavy emphasis on local content rather than more global ones.

    ]]>     2020-04-28 01:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535051122     tilly https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535051966 1.  Singapore was a lot slower than US in terms of its technological advancement.  The broadcast TV evolved at much slower pace, with certain features such as colour TV only being introduced much later than the US. This is probably because at the time, Singapore was not as advanced as US yet.

    2. Singapore did not include that much diversity until a lot later than the US.  This is probably because there were not that many people in the media industry yet, so there was little diversity. However in US, since the country is a lot bigger, there was definitely a lot more people in the industry, and therefore more diversity. ]]>     2020-04-28 01:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535051966     Newt https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535052792 1. Singapore's Broadcast TV landscape advances much more slowly than the US - this can be seen from how colour broadcast in SG was only introduced in 1974, 8 years after it was introduced in the US.

    2.  Unlike the US, Singapore's Broadcast TV content was not limited to the English medium. It included Chinese dramas, e.g. The Seletar Robbery, and had dedicated channels in Malay and Tamil, e.g. Suria and Vasantham.]]>     2020-04-28 01:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535052792     Zaneta https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535054346 Singapore only introduced broadcast television in 1963, comparably later than the US which had it since 1948. A reason could be because post-war Singapore was still building up its economy after the war, and as such, people were more focused on building their livelihood first. Technology also needed time to sort of move to Singapore. While the US had HBO pay TV since 1972, Singapore started its first pay TV in 1992- 20 years since the US did. Singapore could have wanted to expand its local TV scene before introducing international channels for the more affluent. Another reason could also have been that maybe we were more conservative. Maybe Singaporeans were more 'cheapskate', and SBC thought that we would not be open to paying money to watch TV until the 90s, given that we already had free-to-air channels. ]]> 2020-04-28 01:44:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535054346 Ching Cheng https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535056985 Comparing the evolution of broadcast TV in US and Singapore, Singapore's broadcast TV landscape has developed slower than America has. With radio and Pay TV introduced to the people around a decade later than the US, we can observe that Singapore took longer to progress and evolve in broadcast TV due to the interval in which technology that was introduced in the US came to Singapore.

    Another interesting observation on the evolution of Broadcast TV was the introduction of multi-racial shows in Singapore as compared to the US. It seems that the 1994 Singapore English Drama Series "Masters of the Sea" already had multi-racial cast despite there being more Chinese main characters than Malay and Indian characters. Before that, Singapore broadcast TV was focussing more on Chinese dramas. Comparing that to outside of SG, the US had a focus of changing the types of shows broadcasted on television but still had complete caucasian casts with not much variety in race in sitcoms in 1994. This proves that the racial representations in US TV took longer to be popularised by the media than in SG.]]>     2020-04-28 01:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535056985     Samuel https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535060081 1.Singapore's Broadcast TV has been historically more supportive of the government line, and family friendly, upholding moral values, as can be seen in many local dramas, with the 'good side' always winning, whereas internationally, as in countries like the USA, the shows Broadcasted on TV have tended to be more progressive and  challenges the audience sensibilities, as seen in Ellen when she comes out to her friend.
    2.In my opinion,Singapore's broadcast TV landscape has also been orientated more towards local audiences, where as American broadcast TV, such as news channels like CNN and sitcoms like F.R.I.E.N.D.S. are orientated towards a broader, international audience. ]]>     2020-04-28 01:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535060081     Midge https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535060844 1. The evolution of Broadcast TV outside Singapore is much faster than within Singapore, and can be inferred from the fact that Netflix was only introduced in Singapore in 2016, while it launched back in 2007 in the US.
    2. Broadcast TV in Singapore has a wide variety of local productions, ranging from Chinese dramas to Malay shows such as Suria Kids, thus displaying more racial diversity. In comparison, the US had only broadcasted English-centric content.]]>     2020-04-28 01:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535060844     Theodore https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535063403 1. Singapore is slower than the USA in technological advancements, getting radio, TV and Colour TV more than 10 years after the US got it. Thus, Singapore TV Broadcast landscape is behind the rest of the world. 
    2. The Singapore Broadcast TV landscape is catered towards Singaporeans, so unlike the US, there are a variety of programs in different languages. For example, the first locally produced drama was in chinese. There has also been more local content produced in Malay and Tamil. ]]>     2020-04-28 01:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535063403     Tiffany https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535065551 At first glance, Singapore is noticeably slower on the uptake in technological advancements; seemingly always one step behind in the release of new features on television and broadcast, Singapore Broadcast TV pales in comparison to its American counterparts. One example being the launch of Netflix—while Netflix already hit the screens in US, 2007, Singapore only did the same in 2016, nearly a whole decade later.

    Singapore's Broadcast TV content is also noticeably more catered to domestic preferences and are more family friendly, while US went down the more political road.]]>     2020-04-28 01:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535065551     enyi https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535067106 1.Singapore has produced more racially diverse and family-friendly content as compared to other countries such as the USA. The USA published content that was relevant to the corresponding time's political events(e.g elections, wars) as well as media containing sensitive content e.g LGBT, violence.
    2. Singapore is comparatively slower than the USA in terms of evolution in Broadcast TV.]]>     2020-04-28 01:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535067106     isabel https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535067229 1. Singapore is quite behind in technological advancement as compared to the rest of the world. It took us more than two decades to get our first radio broadcast, while it was already a thriving industry in the United States. Even Netflix, which was launched in 2007 in the US, was only introduced to Singapore in 2016, a whole 9 years later.  
    2. Local productions tend to focus more on traditional family values and dynamics as compared to their western counterparts. Western media also tends to be more progressive and has content that is otherwise almost unheard if in locally-produced content.]]>     2020-04-28 01:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535067229     amanda amandaloh20 https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535069732 the evolution of broadcast TV in singapore progressed much slower as compared to the US as perhaps technology advancements in singapore was introduced later. this can be seen from : the 1st singapore's pay tv (svc) was introduced in 1992 while america's 1st pay tv (hbo) was introduced in 1972.

    the singapore broadcast tv landscape was created in a way to capture the singapore audience thus singapore introduced many tv channels for the different races living in singapore. 
    singapore's changes in content is relatively slower compared to that of other countries as singapore is much more conservative and new ideas/content and singaporeans may not be that open. ]]>     2020-04-28 01:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535069732     Soon Yue Yang enternia_cynthia https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535072533 The first observation that can be made is that in terms of technological evolution,  broadcast TV in countries outside of Singapore have advanced faster, likely due to such advancements usually first occuring outside of Singapore.

    The second observation that can be made is that in terms of media production, countries such as America have tried appealing to mass audiences by being 'edgy', but Singapore has remained family friendly, appealing to a more general audinece.]]>     2020-04-28 02:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535072533     Ren https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535075215 The evolution of broadcast TV in Singapore is considerably slower than that of the USA. Only in 1963 did Singapore receive broadcast TV, when no less than 3 years later the USA got broadcast TV in colour. Technological advancements are clearly slower coming to Singapore than to the USA.

    Singapore's content is also less politics-centric than the USA's, which has used broadcast TV to cover presidential campaigns. Singapore's content is focused on entertaining the masses (Phoa Chu Kang, Army Series)]]>     2020-04-28 02:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535075215     Sherlyn https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535077006 In general, the evolution of broadcast TV outside Singapore progressed faster than inside Singapore. Singapore only got colour broadcast in 1974, 8 years after the US had gotten colour in 1966. Japan had developed VHS (1976) and the US had its first 24 hour news channel (1980) before Singapore had even broadcast its first local drama in 1982.
    While sitcoms outside of Singapore had moved on to edgier, less domestic themes in the 1990s, Singapore's first successful sitcom, "Under One Roof", in 1995, was a comedy based on a family and their neighbours, with the tagline "Singapore's Funniest Family.".

    1. The evolution of broadcast TV in SIngapore was focused more on local productions, while outside of Singapore, streaming services such as Netflix had been invented, which gave audiences access to content from many origins.
    2. The topics that Singaporean shows deal with are less controversial/adult than shows created by other countries.]]>     2020-04-28 02:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aaron_tan10/pfnb2z4lsxbh/wish/535077006