The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said on 23 Aug that it’ll provide broadcast airtime on television as well as radio for presidential candidates to make campaigning speeches.
They’ll get to deliver their campaigning messages on two days — 24 Aug and 30 Aug — across 19 TV and radio channels.
The broadcasts will be in all four official languages, IMDA said.
On 24 Aug, each presidential candidate will get to deliver their speeches in alphabetical order of their surnames as reflected in the Electoral Roll:
IMDA says the order will be reversed for the second broadcast.
Candidates may deliver their campaigning messages in all or any of the four official languages, IMDA notes.
Presidential candidates get a maximum of 10 minutes per language per broadcast, for both broadcast days.
However, the content must be the same for all language versions of a broadcast.
IMDA notes that all broadcasts should not contain statements of defamatory or criminal nature.
The schedule on each day will be as follows:
For English TV broadcasts, CNA will screen the speeches at 7pm while Channel 5 will screen them at 9.30pm.
The following radio stations will air the speeches at 7pm:
Meanwhile, these stations will broadcast at 9.30pm:
The Malay broadcast will take place on Suria at 9.30pm, while Warna 942 will broadcast at the same time on radio.
The Mandarin TV broadcast will be on Channel 8 at 10.30pm and Channel U at 11.30pm.
For Mandarin radio, the following stations will broadcast at 10.30pm:
Vasantham and Oli 968 will both air the Tamil broadcast at 9pm.
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