Asia Business News
| Country | Singapore |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Asia |
| Headquarters | Singapore |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Dow Jones and Company |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 November 1993 |
| Closed | 1 July 1998[1] (merger with CNBC Asia) |
| Replaced by | CNBC Asia Bloomberg Television |
Asia Business News (ABN) was a business news television channel owned by Dow Jones and Company. It was founded on 1 November 1993 and based in Singapore. It was the sister network of London-based European Business News (EBN). On 2 February 1998 the channel merged with NBC's CNBC Asia. Initially, most of ABN's programmes and presenters migrated to the new channel and it operated from ABN's former headquarters in Singapore.[2][3] The merged channel was initially named CNBC Asia Business News but on 1 July 1998 it was simply referred to as CNBC Asia.
Past programmes[]
- Breakfast Briefing
- Asian Wall Street Journal on Air
- Trading Day
- Asia Market Digest
- Storyboard
- Far Eastern Economic Review on Air
- Money Talk
- dot.com
- Corporate Raiders
Anchors/presenters[]
- Coco Quisumbing
- Martin Soong
- Sydnie Kohara
- Karen Koh
- Lynette Lithgow
Correspondents[]
- Keiko Bang
- Lisa Barron
- Stuart Pallister
- Jim Sciutto
- Chris Slaughter
References[]
- ^ Joshi, Namrata; M.M. Vetticad, Anna; Rajadhyaksha, Mrudula (9 February 1998). "It's Only Business". Teletalk. India Today. p. 82.
- ^ Fabrikant, Geraldine (8 December 1997). "Overseas News Merger Seen By Dow Jones and CNBC". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ^ "Dow, NBC to merge cable TV operations". Indian Express Newspapers. 10 December 1997. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014.
Categories:
- Defunct television channels
- Television stations in Singapore
- ABS-CBN original programming
- Television channels and stations established in 1993
- Television channels and stations disestablished in 1998
- Defunct mass media in Singapore