City TV was a free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate MediaCorp.
The channel was originally launched by the Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) on 30 January 2000 as Sportscity, which initially focused on regional and international sports.
The service would complement Channel 8 and would carry a mixture of sports, arts and documentary programming, mirroring Premiere 12.
[1] When Singapore International Media was restructured in July 1999 and renamed MediaCorp, TCS would create an all-new sports channel under its jurisdiction.
[13][14] On 4 May 2001, Mediacorp announced that Sportscity would be relaunched as City TV (unrelated to the Canadian network); the channel would be repositioned towards a cosmopolitan audience of "trendy adults".
More than 80% of the Chinese-language programming was first-run, with Taiwanese variety shows, Korean and Japanese dramas, and entertainment news programmes.
Although the channel attracted a larger viewer base as City TV than as Sportscity, its ad revenue didn't increase in tandem.
[25] A report by the Infocomm Development Authority's Programme Advisory Committee lauded the channel's coverage of the 2001 SEA Games and its docuseries Dreams: The Team Singapore Story, but showed concerns that the channel's closedown had made it more difficult to locate sports programming on local television.