Central (TV channel)

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Central

Country	Singapore
Broadcast area	Singapore Johor Bahru/Johor Bahru District (Malaysia) Batam/Batam Islands, Riau Islands (Indonesia)
Headquarters	Bestway Building, 12 Prince Edward Road, 079212 Singapore
Programming
Language(s)	English Tamil
Picture format	576i (4:3 SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	MediaCorp (MediaCorp TV12)
Sister channels	Suria City TV
History
Launched	1 September 1995; 28 years ago (1995-09-01)
Closed	19 October 2008; 15 years ago (2008-10-19)
Replaced by	Vasantham Okto
Former names	Channel 12 (1984 – 1995) Premiere 12 (1995 – 2000)
Availability (at time of closure)
Terrestrial
Analog terrestrial television	Channel 24

Central was a Singaporean free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate MediaCorp.

The channel was established on 1 September 1995 by Singapore Television Twelve as Premiere 12, an UHF spin-off of Channel 12 focused on arts, cultural, sports, and English-language entertainment programmes. Premiere 12 inherited the previous format of Channel 12, which concurrently relaunched with a multilingual format focused on Malay and Tamil programmes.

On 30 January 2000, the channel relaunched as Central; the channel's schedule was divided into three different strands, with children's programmes under the Kids Central strand, Tamil-language programmes under the Vasantham Central strand, and arts and cultural programming under the Arts Central strand. On 19 October 2008, MediaCorp discontinued Central and spun its programming off into the new channels Okto and Vasantham.