Pesta Perdana

Pesta Perdana (Prime Fest) is a Singaporean awards show held by Mediacorp, honouring "the best in the Malay television industry".{{cite web |url=http://www1.mediacorp.sg/pp11/ |title=Pesta Perdana 11 | Suria |accessdate=2011-05-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411001437/http://www1.mediacorp.sg/pp11/ |archivedate=2011-04-11 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.izone.sg/2011/02/19/ebuzz-events-pesta-perdana-11/ |title=EBuzz Events : Pesta Perdana 11 | iZone.SG - entertainment buzz! |accessdate=2011-05-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504183717/http://www.izone.sg/2011/02/19/ebuzz-events-pesta-perdana-11/ |archivedate=2011-05-04 }} It is touted as "Singapore's Malay version of the Emmys"{{cite news |title=Era claims her win after all... |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/newpaper20020218-1.2.6.1?qt=pesta,%20perdana&q=Pesta%20Perdana |access-date=12 September 2024 |work=The New Paper |date=18 February 2002}} and Star Awards.{{cite news |title=Meet the Malay ZOE & FANN |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/newpaper19971209-1.2.11.1?qt=pesta,%20perdana&q=Pesta%20Perdana |access-date=12 September 2024 |work=The New Paper |date=9 December 1997}} Airing on Mediacorp Suria, as of 2011, it is held two times in a year.

First held in 1997 as an awards show for both Malay and Tamil programmes on Prime 12, it became a Malay-language only event in 1998. Its Tamil counterpart, Pradana Vizha, started in 1999.{{cite news |title=Cast a vote for those cast on TV |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19981125-1.2.87.6.11?qt=pesta,%20perdana&q=Pesta%20Perdana |access-date=12 September 2024 |date=25 November 1998}}