Okto
Television programming block in Singapore / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Okto is a Singaporean children's programming block broadcast by Mediacorp's Channel 5 in English and Channel 8 in Mandarin Chinese.
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Country | Singapore |
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Broadcast area | Singapore Johor Bahru/Johor Bahru District (Malaysia) Batam/Batam Islands, Riau Islands (Indonesia) |
Network | Mediacorp TV12 (19 October 2008-30 April 2019) Mediacorp TV (1 May 2019-present) |
Headquarters | Mediacorp Campus, 1 Stars Avenue, Singapore 138507 |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English Chinese |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
History | |
Launched | 19 October 2008; 15 years ago (2008-10-19) (as a standalone channel) 1 May 2019; 5 years ago (2019-05-01) (as a children's block on Channel 5) 6 February 2021; 3 years ago (2021-02-06) (as a children's block on Channel 8) |
Closed | 30 April 2019; 5 years ago (2019-04-30) (as a standalone channel) |
Replaced by | Channel 5, Channel 8 and meWatch (children's programs) Channel 5 and meWatch (sports programming) |
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The brand originally operated as a standalone free-to-air channel from 19 October 2008 to 1 May 2019, having been spun off from the Arts Central and Kids Central strands aired by Central (whose Tamil language programming had been concurrently spun off as the new channel Vasantham). The channel also occasionally aired sports programming.
On 1 May 2019, the channel was discontinued, and Okto transitioned to becoming a children's block on Channel 5. The brand was later extended to Channel 8 in Chinese.