Editing Television licence (section)

===Singapore===
Residents of Singapore with televisions in their households, or televisions or radios in their vehicles, were required to acquire the appropriate licences from 1963 to 2010. The licence fee in 1963 was at $24 per year ($2 per month), touted at the time as being "one of the cheapest in [[South East Asia|this part of the world]]".<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=3 January 1963 |title=S'pore TV starts next month |newspaper=The Straits Times |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19630103-1.2.15?qt=%22channel%205%22&q=%22Channel%205%22 |access-date=8 August 2023}}</ref> The licence fees are channelled to the [[Infocomm Media Development Authority|Singapore Broadcasting Authority]] where they would be used to fund minority and public service programmes.<ref>{{cite news |title=TV delivers audiences to advertisers, entertainment and news come second |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19950423-1.2.79.22.1 |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=The Straits Times |date=23 April 1995}}</ref>

As of 1991, the licence fee was at $100 per year.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rancangan Melayu tidak harus ketinggalan |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/beritaharian19911222-1.2.11.5.1 |access-date=1 November 2024 |work=Berita Harian (Singapore) |date=22 November 1991}}</ref>

The licence fees were abolished from 1 January 2011. Then Finance Minister [[Tharman Shanmugaratnam]] reported that he was abolishing the fees as they were "losing their relevance".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1111579/1/.html|title=Channel NewsAsia|publisher=Channel NewsAsia|access-date=12 July 2015|archive-date=30 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630174815/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1111579/1/.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>