[1] MediaWorks was on track to launch the channel and its English counterpart TVWorks by June 2001.

Channel 8's vice president Khiew Voon Khang said that the ratings slide looked "like a street bump than Mount Everest".

In September 2004, SPH MediaWorks announced an agreement to divest its television stations and free newspaper businesses to MediaCorp, in exchange for a stake of parts of MediaCorp's television and publishing businesses.

[15] In 2023, Channel U introduced a new logo as part of a wider rebranding of Mediacorp's properties, dropping the blue sphere emblem that had been used since its establishment.

[16] The channel's programming consists of Chinese-language music and entertainment produced locally and imported from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand and Korean language series provided by KBS, MBC and SBS (available in dual sound and subtitles).