Gold905
English radio station in Singapore owned Mediacorp
Gold905 is an English-language radio station in Singapore. Owned by the state-owned media conglomerate Mediacorp, it broadcasts a classic hits format.
The station's origins date to the beginning of regulated radio broadcasting in Singapore. It first signed on in 1937 under the call sign ZHL; as Singapore's sole radio station, it initially carried blocks of programmes in all four of the region's main languages; programming in Chinese varieties, Malay, and Tamil would gradually move to dedicated stations as Radio Singapore expanded, leaving ZHL as primarily being an English-language outlet.
It was renamed Radio 1 in 1982; by then it offered a full-service format featuring news programming and middle of the road music. In 1998, news programming was relocated to the new NewsRadio 93.8, and 90.5 relaunched under its current name as an oldies station.
History
The station was awarded a licence in 1935 under the auspices of the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcasting began on 1 March 1937, roughly two months after the expiry of the previous radio station in Singapore, ZHI. The new station carried the callsign ZHL, and broadcast on an AM medium wave frequency of 630 kHz (which remained unchanged after the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975, as it was already on a multiple of 9 kHz), and began FM transmissions in 1967. On 1 January 1994, AM broadcasting was discontinued in Singapore in favour of FM.
Until late-1945, the station, as the country's then-sole radio station, broadcast language-based block programming aimed at the local population in English, Chinese varieties, Malay and Tamil. Over time, its language-based programmes were diffused onto separate stations serving specific language groups, leaving ZHL as the English-language service of Radio Singapore.
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