Singapore telco Singtel added BBC Studios’ five linear channels to its line up today, heralding a festive season boost that also includes a free preview for all Singtel TV customers of more than 130 channels on its Singtel TV and Singtel TV Go platforms.

In a second linear pick up, StarHub added Fashion TV to its line up from today more than a decade after the service first rolled out on the platform only to disappear a few years later.

The five new Singtel channels are BBC Earth, BBC First, BBC World News, BBC Lifestyle and CBeebies.

The free preview runs to 3 January 2022.

Along with telco rival StarHub, Singtel heads into the new year with its lowest pay-TV subscriber base in years.

Singtel ended September 2021 with 368,000 pay-TV subscribers, from 383,000 at the end of September 2019.

StarHub, which has been losing ground to Singtel for 10 straight quarters, ended September with 287,000.