Arnold Gay (born 11 May 1967) is a television presenter and former radio presenter from

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

. He is currently presenting the breakfast show "Asia First" on CNA together with Julie Yoo, Teresa Tang and Elizabeth Neo from Jan 2024. He previously worked at Singapore radio stations Class 95FM, Power 98 FM, Kiss 92FM, as well as sister channel

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. He was also a

broadcast journalist Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

at various TV stations including CNA,

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and Reuters TV.

Biography

Gay's first job in radio was as a presenter at Class 95FM, where he subsequently became the station's Music Director. He then became the Music Director at the newly-opened Power 98 FM in 1994. Gay then moved into the television industry in 1995, becoming a Music Video Programmer for

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in Hong Kong. In 1998, he returned to Singapore to become a news reporter at

Channel NewsAsia CNA (an initialism of Channel NewsAsia) is a Singapore-based multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate. The network is broadcast in Singapore on free-to-air terrestrial television and Mediacorp ...

. In 2001, he moved to the new

Singapore Press Holdings Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) was one of Singapore's two state media companies, which published ''The Straits Times'', numerous other newspapers and operated radio, television and digital media. In 2021, the media division was spun ...

television channel, TV Works, as a presenter on the Straits Times TV News (later renamed Channel i News). When the channel folded at the end of 2004, he became an Assistant News Editor for the ''

Straits Times ''The Straits Times'' (also known informally by its abbreviation ''ST'') is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust. Established on 15 July 1845, it is the most-widely circulated newspaper in the country and ...

'' newspaper. In 2005, he became the Singapore Press Holdings Head of Corporate Relations. He later moved back into broadcast journalism and had stints at

and Reuters TV. In 2012, Gay returned to the radio industry to join the new Singapore radio station Kiss 92FM. Since the station opened in August 2012, he has been the co-host of the station's breakfast show, 'Maddy, Jason and Arnold in the Mornings', from 6.00 – 10.00 am on weekdays together with Maddy Barber and Jason Johnson until March 2019.Arnold Gay, Kiss92 FM
, SPH Radio. Retrieved 15 October 2017. He left the station to host the breakfast show, "Asia First", with former Money FM 89.3 DJ Yasmin Jonkers, on a revamped radio station,

(previously 938Now) for 4 years from 2019 - 2023. At the start of 2024, he was promoted back as a Television Presenter on the main CNA channel to anchor the TV version of the "Asia First" programme to be partnered mainly with Julie Yoo and Elizabeth Neo, replacing Steve Lai who had moved to

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, thereby marking Gay's return to the television screens.

Education

Gay was educated at

Catholic High School Catholic schools are parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest religious, non-governmental school system. In 201 ...

St Joseph's Institution St. Joseph's Institution (SJI) is an independent Catholic educational institution in Singapore. Founded in 1852 by the De La Salle Brothers, it is the first Catholic school and the third oldest school in the country. SJI has been offering a dual ...

and

Raffles Junior College The Raffles Junior College (RJC) was a junior college in Singapore offering pre-university education. The college was founded in 1982, following a separation from the pre-university section of Raffles Institution (RI). Raffles Junior College ...

, before going on to the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national university, national Public university, public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merging of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University ...

where he majored in Economics and

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

Personal life

Gay has two brothers and one sister. His father was a Station Manager for

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and his mother was a bank officer. Gay met his wife, Deborah Chia, when she was working as a DJ at Class 95FM. The couple have one son.

References

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