Sunday 19 May 2013

This week's media news (episode 14)

Welcome to this week's media news.

On May 15, Najib Razak, the Prime Minister announced the new Cabinet after the 13th General Election at 5:00 pm. Previously the Prime Minister was sworn in before the Yang di-Pertuan Agong for his second term as the Prime Minister on 6 May at 4:00 pm after Barisan Nasional won a majority in the general election.

The new cabinet announcement saw many changes, such a lineup of new ministers and some ministry changes. Many TV stations carried the announcement. RTM through TV1 provided the visuals of the announcement broadcast. TV1 airs it during Berita Wilayah; TV3 interrupted regular programming for a special news broadcast presented by Izwan Azir Salleh from the near-the-newsroom studio where he talks about the new cabinet; NTV7, 8TV, TV9, TV Alhijrah and Bernama TV (which relays off-air from TV1 Astro ch101 feed) simply interrupted regular programming only for the speech portion. The next day in the morning, the new cabinet ministers take the oath before the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, where the event was also carried live on most TV stations.

Harian Metro made an advertisement this week which airs on Media Prima TV stations which says the newspaper had sold over 602,005 copies for the edition dated May 6.

Planet Kiara, a children's science-fiction drama series which has completed season 1 with 13 episodes, is now re-running on TV3 since May 14. It airs every Tuesday to Thursday at 6:30 pm.

Media Prima Digital, Media Prima's digital media company, has recently introduced Tonton app for Samsung Smart TV users, New Straits Times says. The application can be downloaded from the Samsung Smart TV app store.

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