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Channel 8 News & Current Affairs is a department which produces news, current affairs, and info-ed programmes for two Mediacorp channels aired in Mandarin, Channels 8 and U.
Contents
- Presentation
- Exceptions
- Full Time
- Allied Newscasters
- Adjunct Newscasters
- Allied Presenters
- Adjunct Presenters
- Accolades
- Gallery
- References
Prior to 2010, the news were presented in three timeslots - News 8 At One (Chinese:1点新闻), which airs daily; Singapore Today (Chinese:狮城6点半), and News 8 at 10. (Chinese:10点新闻). With the reduction of MediaCorp News Group employees and the increased demand for more variety programme content on Channel U, MediaCorp announced that the news programmes on Channel U would end with effect from 29 March 2010. News 8 at 10 would then air at 11.00pm there, as a new title called News Tonight (Chinese:晚间新闻).
News 8 at One will broadcast news on Monday to Friday at 1pm. News 8 at One will not broadcast news on Saturday and Sunday . Only Singapore Today and News Tonight will be broadcast on weekends.News Tonight was repeated for viewers who missed Singapore Today.
As part of Channel 8's programming revamp in 2014, with the final broadcast of Good Morning Singapore (Chinese:早安您好) on 29 August 2014, a new weekday morning news programme Morning Express (Chinese:晨光第一线) begun airing from 1 September 2014.
Beginning from 20 October 2014, Hello Singapore (Chinese: 狮城有约) would take over Singapore Today on weekdays, with news segments at 6.30pm and 7.00pm, it was broadcast live.
Presentation
There are different news presenters every day for news programmes. There are two news presenters on the weekday version of News Tonight, but mostly a single presenter presents the news in every timeslot. Highlights of the day's news are shown in a ticker found on the left side of the screen on Channel 8, and in the form of a commentary during the credits of the weekday 9.00pm drama.
Exceptions
The news timeslots are mostly fixed. However, there are some exceptions:
Commentaries would continue to be heard at the end of the drama series during the credits, regardless of production company (e.g. Wawa Pictures, Mediacorp Studios Malaysia), if there are no featurettes, promotions or snippets. The Ultimatum was the first drama series to air without commentaries, while Crescendo became the first non-Mediacorp Studios produced drama to air without commentaries.
Full Time
Allied Newscasters
Adjunct Newscasters
Full Time
Allied Presenters
Adjunct Presenters
Accolades
The award was discontinued from 2010 and separated into two newly formed categories, namely the Best News Presenter and Best Current Affairs Presenter awards, to create distinctions between the news and current affairs presenters.
Best News Presenter from 2010 - 2013.
The Best News Presenter and Best Current Affairs Presenter awards were suspended from 2014 due to a lack of eligible nominees, as professional and programme awards will only be given out when there are at least ten candidates from this year on. Even though Channel 8 News & Current Affairs already had ten news presenters by the end of 2014, unfortunately, the Best News Presenter award did not return.
Gallery
Take note that not all news anchors are shown.