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| 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 |
| Closed | 19 October 2008 |
| 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.