This week's media news (episode 9)

Welcome to this week's media news. This week is so exciting because of RTM's 67th anniversary and the upcoming first party manifesto on TV.

RTM celebrates its 67th anniversary on April 1. A news report from ABU says RTM's anniversary ceremony was held at Angkasapuri on that day. Director-General of RTM Dato' Norhayati Ismail says RTM's current focus is on the use of new technology and social media. RTM may soon announce the launch a surprise new product. She also presented certificates of appreciation to its 41 RTM staff members who were involved in the coverage of the Sulu terrorist intrusion in Lahad Datu (Lahad Datu standoff).

RTM also introduced its online rolling news channel called 1 News. It can be accessed at http://1news.rtm.gov.my. It is streamed in high-quality 16:9 aspect ratio. I saw this during a news report aired on Berita Nasional before the sports segment on March 31.

This is how RTM's 67th anniversary logo looks like. The number "67" in the logo is similar to the number "0" in the 50th anniversary of Singapore TV's logo used by MediaCorp last February.

Moving on to TV3. Today I found out that Berita Terkini's 7:30 am weekdays edition is still at Studio A Sri Pentas (and also Buletin Pagi as confirmed on April 7) unlike the other bulletins that I mentioned in the last episode where they are at the near-the-newsroom set. I confirmed this when I checked today's recorded MHI broadcast on Tonton website (the newscast is included in the broadcast). I also watched a promo about TV3's GE13 election broadcast on April 6 where TV3 will be using the latest technology to present information about the GE13. The GE13 live coverage on the night of polling day will be broadcast from Studio A. Meanwhile TV3's top-right logo variation which is also used for idents and promos is also spotted twice on April 5 during Berita Terkini 7:30 am and during the live broadcast of Al-Kuliyyah from Cyberjaya. I'm not sure whether the logo variation will replace the existing one.

[Content about GE13 has been removed because I thought that the BN Manifesto on April 6 was a 10-minute broadcast but it's actually the launch of BN's Manifesto at Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil. Detais of the broadcast of the launch of BN Manifesto here and before the GE13 here]

(Updated on April 6 and 7)