S'pore to launch all-news station

S'pore to launch all-news station

SINGAPORE (AP): Singapore's state-run national television corporation will launch an all-news station expected to debut early next year, sources at the station confirmed yesterday.

The new station "is still in its developmental stages", according to a recent statement from the Television Corporation of Singapore, which already operates one English-language and one multilingual station.

The 18-hour news station is expected to merge all news and current affairs programs into one product and will air both local and international news, sources told Dow Jones Newswires.

It is expected to operate from 6 a.m. to midnight local time.

Television Corporation of Singapore is restructuring its entire news operations, the sources said, and eventually all the reporters and current affairs staff will be placed in a common pool that will become the main staff for the new station.