Launch of Colour TV Service
Minister for Culture, Jek Yuen Thong tours the colour television studios of Radio Television Singapore on 18 April 1974
Television Singapore introduced its first pilot colour TV service on 1 August, 1974. The conversion of its monochrome service to colour was done through the adoption of the 625 Phase Alternation Line (PAL) colour system.
The transmission hours of colour programmes then were four hours on weekdays and six hours on weekends. Television Singapore started telecasting its newsreel, which was of 15 minutes’ duration, in colour from November 1974. In May 1975, when a fifth TV studio was commissioned, some local productions were made in colour.