List of radio stations in Singapore

The following radio stations are located in and transmitted from Singapore.

FM stations

There are three radio broadcasters in Singapore, namely Mediacorp Radio, SPH Radio and SAFRA Radio. There are 19 radio stations in Singapore. Most Singaporeans are able to receive FM broadcasts from Malaysia and Indonesia if the signal is strong enough.^[1]

Listeners who do not have a FM tuner can listen to web streams of all FM stations by either visiting the stations' websites on a desktop or downloading the stations' respective apps on a mobile device. There might be a delay of up to 90 seconds compared to the live FM transmission.

The radio stations utilise RCS Master Control broadcast automation software. An upgrade to the newer RCS Zetta was rolled out across all 13 Mediacorp stations from August to November 2014.

Frequency	Station	Operator	Language	Genre	First air date	Webcast
088.3 MHz	883JiaFM	SAFRA Radio	Chinese, English	Adult Contemporary	24 November 1997	Web Stream
088.9 MHz	BBC World Service	BBC Radio	English	Talk radio	1960	Web Stream
089.7 MHz	Ria 89.7FM	Mediacorp	Malay, Arab, English	CHR/Pop, Malaysian pop, Indo pop, Arab pop	1 December 1990	Web Stream
090.5 MHz	Gold 905	Mediacorp	English	Classic hits, Oldies	1 June 1936	Web Stream
091.3 MHz	One FM 91.3	SPH Radio Pte Ltd	English	Mainstream rock, Classic rock	3 October 2001	Web Stream
092.0 MHz	Kiss 92FM	SPH Radio Pte Ltd	English	Adult Contemporary	3 September 2012	Web Stream
092.4 MHz	Symphony 92.4FM	Mediacorp	English	Classical music	1 June 1936	Web Stream Song List
093.3 MHz	Y.E.S. 93.3FM	Mediacorp	Chinese	CHR/Pop, Chinese pop	1 January 1990	Web Stream
093.8 MHz	938LIVE	Mediacorp	English	Talk radio	1 January 1997	Web Stream
094.2 MHz	Warna 94.2FM	Mediacorp	Malay, English	Adult Contemporary, Infotainment	1 June 1936	Web Stream
095.0 MHz	Class 95FM	Mediacorp	English	Adult Contemporary	1 January 1990	Web Stream
095.8 MHz	Capital 95.8FM	Mediacorp	Chinese	Talk radio, Classic hits, Oldies	1 June 1936	Web Stream
096.3 MHz	XFM 96.3	Mediacorp	Japanese, French, Hindi, Bangla, German, Korean	Multicultural, Instrumental music, Korean pop	1998	Web Stream
096.8 MHz	Oli 96.8FM	Mediacorp	Tamil, Hindi, English	Tamil music, Hindi music, Infotainment	1 June 1936	Web Stream
097.2 MHz	Love 97.2FM	Mediacorp	Chinese, English	Adult Contemporary	1 January 1994	Web Stream
098.0 MHz	Power98FM	SAFRA Radio	English	CHR/Pop, Hot Adult Contemporary	31 October 1994	Web Stream
098.7 MHz	987FM	Mediacorp	English	CHR/Pop, Top 40	1 January 1989	Web Stream
099.5 MHz	Lush 99.5FM	Mediacorp	English	Urban AC, Indie music, Chill-out music, Deep house, Easy listening	31 December 2004	Web Stream
100.3 MHz	UFM100.3	SPH Radio Pte Ltd	Chinese	CHR/Pop, Chinese pop	3 October 2001	Web Stream

Internet stations

Website	Station	Operator	Language	Genre	First air date
Link	Kinternational Radio	Kinternational Holdings Asia	English	CHR/Pop, Top 40	1 January 2009
Link	973FM	RadioChat (Independent)	English	Freeform radio, CHR/Pop, Top 40, Independent music	7 December 2010
Link	Desinetworks	Desinetworks Pte Ltd	Hindi	Bollywood, Bhangra,	27 December 2013
	The Live Radio (Discontinued)	Chat Chat Media Pte Ltd	English	Freeform radio, CHR/Pop, Top 40	5 August 2012
	Plush 898 (Discontinued)	Plush 898 Entertainment Network	Chinese	Freeform radio, Contemporary hits	29 November 2009
	Sonar Radio (Discontinued)	RADIOactive Pte Ltd	English	Freeform radio, Contemporary hits	5 May 2011

SMS Services

Mediacorp Radio

Listeners can find out the title of the previous, current and next song being played on air for Mediacorp stations by texting the following codes to 146072346. (Singapore postpaid mobile users only)

Other services
- Traffic Watch (Mon-Sat 7am-9pm): TW
English stations
- Gold 905: G90
- Symphony 92.4FM: 924
- 938LIVE: 938LIVE
- Class 95FM: C95
- XFM 96.3: 963
- 987FM: 987FM
- Lush 99.5FM: LUSH
Chinese stations
- YES 933: YES
- Capital 95.8FM: CAPITAL
- LOVE 97.2FM:-
Malay/Tamil stations
- Ria 89.7FM: RIA
- Warna 94.2FM: WARNA
- Oli 96.8FM: OLI

SPH Radio

Listeners can text in at these numbers:

One FM 91.3: 97170 913
Kiss 92FM : 97170 920
UFM100.3: 9717 1003 (also accepts WhatsApp messages)

SAFRA Radio

Listeners can send messages via SMS or WhatsApp at these numbers:

883JiaFM: 96630 883
Power98FM: 9820 9800

Listenership

According to findings from Nielsen’s Radio Diary Survey 2015, the listenership figures of radio stations in Singapore are as follows (as of 3 Dec 2015): ^[2]

Top 5 English stations: Class 95FM (15%), Kiss 92FM (14%), Gold 905 (13%), 987FM (9%), One FM 91.3 (8%)
Top 5 Chinese stations: LOVE 97.2FM (18%), YES 933 (17%), Capital 95.8FM (16%), UFM 100.3 (8%), 883Jia FM (6%)
Other language stations: Warna 94.2FM (10%), Ria 89.7FM (5%), Oli 96.8FM (7%), Expat Radio 96.3XFM (3%)

History

FM stations

The first 24-hour radio station, Perfect 10 (now known as 987FM), was launched on 1 January 1989. All radio stations started broadcasting 24/7 starting from 1 January 2008.^[3]
Mediacorp used to offer Visual Radio service on Nokia phones. The first radio stations to utilise Visual Radio are 987FM in December 2005 and YES 933 in June 2006. The service has since been discontinued.
The 89.3 MHz frequency on the FM band used to be occupied by TVMobile. An audio simulcast of the TV channel was available until the station closed down on 31 December 2009.^[4]
The 99.5 MHz frequency on the FM band used to be occupied by Passion 99.5FM, a station set up by the National Arts Council in December 1997 that supported and played local music. The station closed down on 31 December 2003 due to the bad economic climate as there was insufficient sponsorship and advertising revenue to cover operating costs.^[5] The frequency was then awarded to Mediacorp in May 2004 and the new station, Lush 99.5FM, was launched 9 months later.^[6]^[7]

DAB stations

Mediacorp used to operate Digital Radio, a radio service using digital audio broadcasting technology which simulcast eight FM stations, namely Class 95FM, Gold 905, 987FM, YES 933, LOVE 97.2FM, Lush 99.5FM, Symphony 92.4FM, and 938LIVE and broadcasts six digital-only stations, namely Cruise, Club Play, JK-Pop, Chinese Evergreens, Planet Bollywood and Bloomberg.

The service was discontinued on 1 December 2011 as the low adoption of DAB radio (compared to FM radio) and the prevalence of listening to Internet radio streams on PCs/smart-phones has rendered DAB radio irrelevant.^[8]

References

↑ Singapore Radio Stations on FM, shortwave and DAB - Asiawaves.Net
↑ Kiss 92FM is the number one English-language radio station in Singapore in terms of cumulative listenership (Nielsen Radio Diary Survey 2015)
↑ All MediaCorp Radio stations to run 24/7 from 1 Jan - Channel NewsAsia
↑ Freeman, B.C., & Ramakrishnan, Y. (2012). Red dot on the dial: Singapore radio then & now. In J. Hendrick's (Ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Radio, pp. 299-319. UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
↑ Victoria Chorale • View topic - Passion 99.5 to shut down
↑ MediaCorp Radio Awarded 99.5FM Frequency For New Radio Station
↑ Singapore's Lush 99.5 FM Delivers 24-Hour Downtempo - News - Properly Chilled - Downtempo Music & Culture
↑ Digital Audio Broadcasting service to stop transmission - XinMSN Entertainment

External links

Radio stations in Singapore

Mediacorp	Ria 89.7FM Gold 90.5FM Symphony 92.4FM Y.E.S. 93.3FM 938LIVE Warna 94.2FM Class 95FM Capital 95.8FM XFM 96.3 Oli 96.8FM Love 97.2FM 987FM Lush 99.5FM

SAFRA Radio	88.3Jia FM Power 98FM

SPH Radio Network	One FM 91.3 Kiss 92FM UFM 100.3

Internet stations	Kinternational Radio 973FM The Live Radio Desinetworks Sonar Radio

Rediffusion Singapore	Redigold Redisilver Sync RTHK Audiobook Fun Kids Radio Australia 90's Getai Asia Hitz Today's Mix Alive Not Dead Awesome 80's Retro JUukebox Classic Rewind

International	BBC World Service

List of radio stations in Asia

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