Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Singapore to celebrate National Day via shortwave


Singapore celebrates her 42nd National Day on 9th August. Tune in to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Message on 8th and 9th August at 1135 UTC on Radio Singapore International.

English broadcast at 1135 UTC on 6150, 6080 kHz

MediaCorp will broadcast the National Day Parade live on its television and radio stations on Thursday, 9th August. MediaCorp TV channels 5, 8, U and TV Mobile, and MediaCorp TV 12 - Suria and Vasantham Central - will telecast the parade from 6pm local time.
The commentary on Channel 5 and TV Mobile will be in English. For Channels 8 and U, it will be in Mandarin. The commentary will be in Malay on Suria, and in Tamil on Vasantham Central.
Live coverage of the parade will also be broadcast on MediaCorp Radio stations 938LIVE, Capital 95.8FM, Warna 94.2 FM and Oli 96.8FM. The radio broadcasts will start from 6.20pm local time.
(Source: Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India).