1974 - 1983

1971

• Installation of a satellite earth station

1974

• First Colour broadcast: response initially lukewarm but improved after first live colour telecast of the World Cup soccer finals. It was during the World Cup season that more members of the public started buying television sets in colour. Approximately 1,000 colour television sets amounting to over $2 million were sold three days before the Cup finals

1982

• The Seletar Robbery - first Mandarin drama

1979

• Singapore Broadcasting Act passed, corporatization of station commenced

1980

1st Feb - RTS was restructured as the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC)

Minister for Communications and Acting Minister for Culture Ong Teng Cheong appointed as chairman to “retain control over the policy of the Corporation in the public interest”