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Star Awards For Best Current Affairs Presenter
The Best Current Affairs Presenter was an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994. The category was introduced in 2010, at the 16th Star Awards ceremony. It was introduced as a result of the discontinuation of the Best News/Current Affairs Presenter award to create distinctions news and current affairs presenters. The award was given in honour of a Mediacorp Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. is the state media, state-owned media conglomerate of Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the investment arm of the Government of Singapore—it owns and operates television channels, radio, and digital media properties. ... presenter who has delivered an outstanding performance in a current affairs programme. The nominees were determined by a team of judges employed by Mediacorp; winners were selected by a majority vote from the entire judging panel. Chun Guek Lay is the inaugural winner in this category for her performance in ''Focus''. The award w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards
Star Awards (Chinese: 红星大奖) are awards for artistic and technical merit where Mediacorp recognises entertainers under their employment for outstanding performances of the year. The awards are given annually in a ceremony. The various category winners are awarded a trophy, with initial designs featuring various star shapes. The star was subsequently removed and the trophy is designed as an S-shaped column, depicting the star. History The first Star Awards presentation was held on 26 February 1994, took place at the Caldecott Broadcast Centre, Mediacorp TV Theatre with an audience of about 500 people. There have no other pre-show and post-awards ceremony held in that year. Winners were announced during the presentation of the ceremony, the ceremony also presented a popularity contest, with Li Nanxing, Chew Chor Meng and Zoe Tay winning the Most Popular Actor and Actress award, respectively. The first Best Drama Serial was only awarded during the third Awards in 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediacorp
Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. is the state media, state-owned media conglomerate of Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the investment arm of the Government of Singapore—it owns and operates television channels, radio, and digital media properties. It is headquartered at the Mediapolis development in Queenstown's One-north precinct, which succeeded Caldecott Hill, the long-time home of its predecessors, in 2015. As of 2022, Mediacorp employs over 3,000 employees; a large number of them are in both public and private sector broadcasting. The company forms half of the Mass media in Singapore, mass media duopoly in the country alongside SPH Media Trust; the company was established in its current form in 1999, following the 1994 privatization of one of its predecessors—the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC)—as a group of state-owned enterprises known as Singapore International Media. Mediacorp holds a monopoly on terrestrial television in Singapore, operating six channels broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards For Best News/Current Affairs Presenter
The Best News/Current Affairs Presenter was an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994. The category was introduced in 2000, at the 7th Star Awards ceremony; Chun Guek Lay received the award for her performance and it was given in honour of a MediaCorp Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. is the state media, state-owned media conglomerate of Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the investment arm of the Government of Singapore—it owns and operates television channels, radio, and digital media properties. ... presenter who has delivered an outstanding performance in a news/current affairs programme. The nominees were determined by a team of judges employed by MediaCorp; winners were selected by a majority vote from the entire judging panel. Since its inception, the award was given to four presenters. Tung Soo Hua is the most recent and final winner in this category. Tung is also the only presenter to win in this category five times, surpassin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tung Soo Hua
Tung Soo Hua (; born 22 November 1974) is a Singaporean news anchor and presenter contracted under Mediacorp. Career Tung is a television news anchor and current affairs presenter with MediaCorp TV Channel 8 and Channel U. Tung joined Mediacorp in 1997 as a Chinese-language news editor before becoming a news reporter and anchor in 2000. Having fronted Mediacorp Channel 8 news programmes such as Singapore Today, Singapore Today Roving News, News 8 at Ten, Money Week and World This Week, Tung has interviewed over 70 chief executive officers and head honchos of listed companies, reaffirming her accomplishment as the show host of Singapore's leading Chinese-language financial television programme. In her 15-year career as journalist, Tung has covered major events including APEC, ASEAN summits, World Bank/IMF meetings and Singapore's General Elections between 2001 and 2015. Most recently, she hosted "Singapore General Election 2015", a seven-hour mega "live" show telecast on Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qi Qi (host)
Qi Qi (; born Lim Yi Chyi ) is a Singaporean television host and radio deejay. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp host from 2003 to 2017 but continues to be a radio deejay. Biography Lim graduated economics from George Mason University. Upon graduation, she became a radio deejay of 883JiaFM and Radio Singapore International, and later a current affairs host of Mediacorp Channel 8 since 2004, where she got nominated for Most Popular Newcomer in Star Awards 2004 Star Awards 2004 was a television award telecasted in 2004 as part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for MediaCorp TV Channel 8. This award was the 11th installment since its first presentation in 1994, ten years ago. This award ce ... for her first television appearance in ''Good Morning Singapore''. News/Current affairs programme Compilation album Awards and accolades References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Qi, Qi Living people Singaporean television personalities Year of birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards 2010
Star Awards 2010 (Simplified Chinese, Chinese: 红星大奖 2010) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp, MediaCorp for the two free-to-air channels, Channel 8 (Singaporean TV channel), MediaCorp Channel 8 and Channel U (Singaporean TV channel), MediaCorp Channel U. The nomination lists for the main categories and popularity awards were announced on 3 February and 18 March 2010, respectively. This year ''Star Awards'' marked the first time the Professional and Technical awards (given out to backstage crew and scriptwriters) were telecast and presented in one show (first show), and was also the second year to host multiple award shows airing on two separate Sunday nights, after Star Awards 2007, 2007. While the first show was still held at MediaCorp TV Theatre, the second show was, for the third time in ''Star Awards history, being held on the new location of Resorts World Sentosa, after 1996 and Star Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youyi (actress)
Lin Youyi (born Iriana Halim; 11 October 1980) is a Singaporean television host, current affairs presenter, actress and presentation trainer witR.E.A.L. Life Coaching She began her career as a radio DJ before signing to Mediacorp as a television presenter in 2008, after which she went into acting and hosting on television programmes. Youyi was awarded the Best Current Affairs Presenter award for ''Good Morning Singapore'' at Star Awards 2012. She is currently one of the anchors for ''Hello Singapore'' on Mediacorp Channel 8 and one of the head trainers foR.E.A.L. Life Coaching Early life Youyi spent her childhood in Taipei, where she completed her elementary studies. She had then relocated, spending her adolescent years in Singapore, where she completed her high school at Chung Cheng High School and tertiary education in Temasek Junior College, and eventually pursuing a bachelor's degree in accountancy at Nanyang Technological University in 2003. In 2008, Youyi decided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards 2011
Star Awards 2011 ( Chinese: 红星大奖 2011) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual ''Star Awards'' organised by MediaCorp for the two free-to-air channels, MediaCorp Channel 8 and MediaCorp Channel U. As like the preceding year's ceremony, this year's ''Star Awards'' were broadcast in two live-telecast shows on Channel 8, on 17 and 24 April. The first show, titled 银光闪耀 (lit. Blinding Silverlight) was broadcast live on 17 April 2011 at MediaCorp Studios, which primarily focuses on giving out mostly technical awards and the Favourite popularity awards which introduced since last year. The second show, titled 金碧辉映 (lit. Golden Splendour) was broadcast live on 24 April 2011 at the Grand Ballroom in Resorts World Sentosa, which was the main award ceremony, followed by a post-show party (telecast on Channel U) after the ceremony concluded. The year's leading contender, '' Breakout'' (which had 19 nominations), became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards 2012
Star Awards 2012 (Simplified Chinese, Chinese: 红星大奖 2012) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp, MediaCorp for the two free-to-air channels, Channel 8 (Singaporean TV channel), MediaCorp Channel 8 and Channel U (Singaporean TV channel), MediaCorp Channel U. ''Star Awards 2012'' was live broadcast on Channel 8, on 22 and 29 April 2012, and the Post-Show party on Channel U after the broadcast of the second award ceremony. Similar to the preceding ceremonies since 2010, the ceremony was split into two separate shows. The first show, titled 光辉大赏 (lit. Glorious Showcase), which focused on Professional and technical awards (which was given out to backstage crew and scriptwriters) as well as showcasing various drama skits to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Chinese Drama Serials. The second show, titled 颁奖礼 (lit. Award Showcase), was held at the Grand Ballroom in Marina Bay Sands, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards 2013
Star Awards 2013 ( Chinese: 红星大奖 2013) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp for the two free-to-air channels, Mediacorp Channel 8 and Mediacorp Channel U. Star Awards 2013 was broadcast live on Channel 8, on 21 April 2013 and 28 April 2013. The first ceremony was held at the Mediacorp TV Theatre while the second ceremony was held at the Marina Bay Sands. The ceremonies were also broadcast on 8 International and the second ceremony on Astro AEC & Astro Quan Jia HD for the first time in HD. 20 programs (eight dramas, nine variety/info-ed, and three current affair programs) won at least one award, the largest representation of programs with one awards tying the last year's ceremony's count. Best Drama Serial '' Pillow Talk'' won only one award, its lowest count of awards for a winning Drama Serial, while '' Unriddle 2'' won the most awards for the ceremony with five (two were from the big four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
