Australia’s public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Singapore’s monopoly broadcaster MediaCorp are looking at sharing news resources, programme exchanges and possible co-production.

The agreement signed in Singapore on 26 June involves international news services – the ABC’s Australia Plus TV and MediaCorp’s Channel News Asia – as well as MediaCorp’s other language channels and radio stations. The agreement covers television, radio and online.

The partnership begins with news, lifestyle programming and digital content. The amount of content involved in the agreement as well as co-production opportunities was still being explored, the ABC said.

The two companies said the partnership was driven by “an increasingly interconnected and digital world” where media organisations “have to constantly seek partnerships and evolve to provide the best content for their audiences”.