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, name = Sing Tao Chinese Radio 星島中文電台
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Private
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, foundation = April 8, 1996
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South San Francisco
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San Francisco Bay Area
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Radio
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Sing Tao News Corporation
Sing Tao News Corporation Limited (Sing Tao) is a Hong Kong media company, incorporated in Bermuda. It was formerly called Global China Group Holdings Limited.
History
The Group, which is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, was founded i ...
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Sing Tao Chinese Radio is the radio division of the
Sing Tao News Corporation
Sing Tao News Corporation Limited (Sing Tao) is a Hong Kong media company, incorporated in Bermuda. It was formerly called Global China Group Holdings Limited.
History
The Group, which is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, was founded i ...
in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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. It currently leases time from
KVTO
KVTO (1400 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Chinese format. Licensed to Berkeley, California, United States, the station serves the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is currently owned by Phuong Pham, through licensee Pham Radio Communica ...
(1400 AM) and
KSQQ
KSQQ (96.1 FM) is a world ethnic radio station broadcasting in the Chinese and Portuguese languages. The station is owned by Coyote Communications and licensed to Morgan Hill, California, with a translator, K277BN, in San Martin, California. It ...
(96.1 FM).
History
Sing Tao Chinese Radio began broadcasting in
Cantonese
Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding are ...
on
KEST
KEST (1450 AM) is a brokered time radio station in San Francisco, California. Most of the station's programming is in Asian languages, including Mandarin and Cantonese. It also airs some South Asian, Greek and German programs as well as New Ag ...
(1450 AM) on April 8, 1996, and on
KVTO
KVTO (1400 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Chinese format. Licensed to Berkeley, California, United States, the station serves the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is currently owned by Phuong Pham, through licensee Pham Radio Communica ...
on June 2, 1997. As of 2016, KVTO carries Sing Tao's programs on weekdays from 7 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 7 pm, and 12 noon to 2pm Saturday and Sunday.
Mandarin broadcasts began on March 3, 1997. As of 2016, KSQQ carries Sing Tao's programs on weekdays from 7 am to 1 pm to the Mandarin-speaking population which is concentrated in the South Bay area.
Singtao Chinese Radio began to cease Cantonese broadcasts from KEST 1450 AM in July 2005 and it currently has only one Cantonese broadcasting station on KVTO 1400 AM.
Location
Broadcast studios are located in the
Sing Tao Daily
The ''Sing Tao Daily'' () (also known as ''Sing Tao Jih Pao'') is Hong Kong's oldest and second-largest Chinese language newspaper. It is owned by Sing Tao News Corporation, of which Kwok Ying-shing () is chairman. Its English language sister p ...
newspaper building in
South San Francisco
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