UFM100.3 is a highly charged Mandarin music station under SPH Radio Pte Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings. UFM100.3 targets working professionals aged between 35 - 45 years old. The station plays popular and familiar mandarin hits, with engaging lifestyle content and current hot topics for the busy individual. The station is under SPH Chinese Media Group, which also includes SPH Chinese media publications such as Lianhe Zaobao, Lianhe Wanbao, Shin Min Daily News, and UWeekly.
The station is also recognised by the National Arts Council for its contribution towards Singapore's arts sector, being a recipient of the SG50 Arts Patron Award in 2015, a Distinguished Patron of the Arts Award recipient in 2010, 2011, 2014, and a Patron of the Arts Award in 2013 and 2015.
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History
Station launch and early days
The station began as UFM 1003 on 3 October 2001, as a station under UnionWorks, a 50-50 joint venture between SPH and NTUC Media. Its target audience is aged 25 to 39.
The 24-hour music station then operated out of the Singapore Labour Foundation building at Thomson Road, taking over the facilities and frequency of the former NTUC Heart 100.3 FM, and adopted green and purple as its station colours. A station mascot ?U (literally "Little U") in these colours was also created and incorporated in the station logo.
Local veteran radio DJs Lin Anna, Huang Wenhong, and Yang Junwei were recruited from rival stations Capital 95.8 FM and YES 933, while new DJs were recruited from campus searches at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. In UFM 1003's early days, radio programmes by Matilda Tao and Mickey Huang were sindicated from Taiwan.
Mandopop singer Jay Chou, then a new singer, sang a version of the station jingle which was adapted from his song ?? Ninja. The station's other jingles were sung by Singaporean singers Juliet Pang and Corrinne May.
UFM 1003 also launched its music chart ????? U Chart, which would continue till 2012 and serve as an alternative reference to YES 933's Pop of the Pop charts. Singaporean mandopop singer Stefanie Sun topped the first-ever chart on 7 October 2001 with her hit track ?? Green Light.
In February 2002, UFM 1003 and its sister station WKRZ 91.3 were designated as official radio broadcasters of Chingay Parade. SPH MediaWorks was the official TV and Internet broadcaster for the annual street parade, and the official newspapers were Lianhe Zaobao and Streats.
In October 2002, UFM 1003 began a partnership with Taiwan's Broadcasting Corporation of China POP Network. On Wednesdays 22:00 hrs., the two stations would link up over ISDN broadband, and listeners of both stations can tune in to an hourly programme co-hosted by UFM 1003's DJ ???, and the latter station's DJ :???.
Post-media merger and rebranding to Radio 1003
Singapore saw a media merger at the end of 2004, with SPH's television operations SPH MediaWorks taken over by MediaCorp. However, UnionWorks was not directly affected by the merger. Variety host Quan Yi Fong, and newscasters Helen Cheung (Zhang Haijie) and Wang Yanqing, who left SPH MediaWorks, became regular talkshow guests on UFM 1003's morning drive time show.
In an effort to synergize with SPH's other media platforms, UFM 1003 began to tap on the newsrooms, with daily broadcasts of news from Lianhe Zaobao, Lianhe Wanbao, Shin Min Daily News, The Straits Times and The New Paper. The station also began to move towards an interactive infotainment format.
In 2006, UnionWorks was renamed as SPH UnionWorks after SPH increased its stake in the subsidiary to 70%. UFM 1003 was renamed as Radio 1003, while WKRZ 91.3 was rebranded as Radio 91.3 with a new contemporary hit radio format.
The following year, SPH further increased its stake in to 80%. In November, SPH UnionWorks moved into the SPH Headquarters at News Centre in Toa Payoh North, taking over the renovated space left behind by the defunct SPH MediaWorks' TV news studio.
In 2009, SPH launched the inaugural Singapore Entertainment Awards (???e???), organised by Lianhe Wanbao, Radio 1003, omy.sg and UW (U-Weekly). The annual rewards honored the best talents in the Singapore and Asian entertainment scene.
In 2010, Radio 1003 was invited to found Global Chinese Golden Chart (????????), a new global alliance with top Chinese radio stations around the world, including Taiwan's HIT FM, China's Music Radio and CITY FM, and Malaysia's My FM. The alliance enabled the station to collaborate with record labels in the region to actively promote Chinese pop music and share music resources and content.
Rebranding to UFM100.3
Radio 1003's name was reverted to UFM100.3 in 2012, with the slogan "UFM100.3 ???" (UFM100.3 is life). Programming was adjusted to cater to its core audience aged 35 to 49.
In 2014, UFM100.3's parent company SPH UnionWorks was renamed SPH Radio, as SPH acquired the remaining 7.1% stake in NTUC Media. The station adopted a new slogan, "UFM100.3 U???,????!".
From January 2015, SPH reorganised its newspaper divisions to include other media forms. Under this restructuring, UFM100.3 was brought under the Chinese Media Group.
U1000 Music Countdown ?U?1000?
UFM100.3's Annual Music Countdown Chart Campaign
U1000 Music Countdown (U?1000) is UFM100.3's annual music chart campaign that gives listeners the sense of power to determine the songs played on UFM100.3, through nominating and voting of their favourite songs. The 1000 best mandarin songs as voted by listeners were then featured on the music countdown on UFM100.3. The campaign started in 2013 as "U500 Music Countdown" (U?500), featuring the top 500 best mandarin songs. From 2014 onwards, the station doubled the list to 1000 best mandarin songs of all time. The 6th edition of U1000 Music Countdown will commence in February 2018.
Champion songs from U1000 through the years:
2017 - Hebe Tien "A Little Happiness" Hebe ??? ?????(Champion for the 2nd consecutive year)
2016 - Hebe Tien "A Little Happiness" Hebe ??? ?????
2015 - Kit Chan "Home" ??? ???
2014 - Tiger Huang "Not So Simple" ??? ???????
2013 - Faye Wong "Red Bean" ?? ????
UFM100.3 DJs
UFM100.3 Weekday Programme
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UFM100.3 Weekend Programme
Former DJs from UFM100.3
Former Notable DJs who crossed to other SPH Radio stations or other SPH departments
- Carine Ang ??? (left UFM100.3 as a host on 17 Nov 2017 to join SPH's new station 96.3 Hao FM but remains as the Senior Programme Director for both stations)
- Anna Lim ??? (left UFM100.3 as a host on 17 Nov 2017 to join SPH's new station 96.3 Hao FM)
- Ken ??? (moved to zaobao.sg)
Former Notable DJs who crossed to TV Production
- Pornsak (currently an artiste under Left Profile)
- Zhang Haijie ??? (moved to Mediacorp Channel 8 as a news presenter)
- Quan Yi Fong ??? (moved to Mediacorp as a television host)
- Vincent Lim ??? (moved to Mediacorp Channel 8 as a Current Affairs Presenter)
Former Notable DJs who went to other Radio Stations
- Lin Lingzhi ??? (moved to Capital 95.8FM in the evenings)
- Kenneth Kong ??? (moved to Mediacorp Channel 8 as a current affairs presenter and later to Love 97.2FM in the evenings)
Former Notable DJs who left the radio industry
- ?? (Daniel - DanieFoodDiary.com)
- Yeo Yann Yann ???
- ???
- ???
- Danny Yeo ???
- ??? (??)
- ???(??)
- ???
- ?? Toshi
- ???
- ??
- ??? (Crossed over from 883JiaFM to this station then to Y.E.S. 933FM but left in 2017 Back to 883JiaFM in 2018)
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