MediaCorp’s Suat Jien LIM, Managing Director, Television, has resigned. Her resignation comes a year after she assumed the MD role, increasing her portfolio of Channel 5 and okto to overseeing programming and promotions for the entire portfolio of free-to-air channels under the broadcaster – Channels 5, 8, U, okto, Suria, and Vasantham; with the exclusion of the news channel Channel NewsAsia. 

A spokesperson for MediaCorp has confirmed the resignation, citing “pursuing other interests” as reason for the departure. An external source has told Television Asia Plus that an external search for a replacement candidate is ongoing while MediaCorp says it will make an announcement on the new hire in due course. Lim leaves the organisation on April 7, 2013.