Media news (episode 17)

Welcome to this week's media news, retitled as "Media news" for the time being. I missed doing last week's because I was busy with school so I made one this week.

RTM
The 56th Majlis Tilawah Al-Quran Peringkat Kebangsaan was held from 10 to 16 June at the Pusat Islam at Kota Bharu, Kelantan. It is aired between 8:45 pm and 11:00 pm. The event was aired on TV1 and simulcasted on TV Alhijrah as well.

Media Prima
Media Prima has introduced its line up of programmes that will air during the coming Ramadan and Aidilfitri. TV3 which concentrates on the mature age group will air under the branding Seindah Ramadan and Anugerah Syawal with programmes such as Jejak Rasul 19, Unsung Places, Singgah Sahur, Selera Madrasah and Kisah Mualaf. TV9 will air programmes such as Mencari Resepi Temurun and Jom Berbuka. Tonton on the other hand will premiere the telemovie Kampung Gangster Raya twenty-four hours before the first airing on TV9 while the telemovie KarlosRaya will have a second screen through smart gadgets which allows the viewers to interact directly with the casts of the telemovie and exclusive videos while watching the actual broadcast.

Ketupat Rendang Kopi O, Mencari Resepi Temurun, Jom Berbuka, Unplugged Rockestra and Versus Raya - See more at: http://www.noodls.com/view/6DC36DEC7CA3DA8D9107D1A4630A70389A9FB759#sthash.pIZMN5VS.dpuf

Selera Madrasah, Kisah Mualaf

Selera Madrasah, Kisah Mualaf

(Source: Berita TV3 and Media Prima press release via Noodls)

Planet Kiara, which has just completed re-running its thirteen Season One episodes, continues with season two, with another thirteen episodes since June 12 on TV3. Instead of airing new episodes every Thursday as it did in season one, new episodes will air every Tuesday to Thursday at 6:30 pm. The last episode is expected to be aired on July 10, most probably to give way for the airing of Ramadan-themed programmes the next day after Planet Kiara ended, especially Jejak Rasul and also lack of enough time. Planet Kiara actually had did produced 26 episodes, but halved it into two seasons.

TV3 has problems with its on-screen logo's late appearance at around 5 seconds at the start of each programme and after each commercial break. This has happened very often since last month. But on June 16 when I woke up early in the morning, I saw TV3 having its own programme identifier just like how TV9 did. It appears as text only and is positioned at the extreme top-left of the screen. The play logo after the "SEKARANG" word is colour coded just like how TV9 did between April 2011 and February 2013; for example blue for general programming such as Bismillah and Al-Hidayah and yellow for children's programmes such as Canimals (matching the Bananana children's programmes block colour, not the background colour for TV3's news presenters ident).

(Update 22/6/2013) The picture below shows TV3's programme identifier design which appears at the start and after the end of each commercial break. These were shot the week after this was posted.

 

Jejak Rasul 19, Unsung Places dan Sembang SahurASTROAstro

Astro
Astro On Demand, a collection of channels which provide first-run broadcasts of TVB dramas at the same time as Hong Kong has moved its channel numbers from the 900 slot (where the channels are located since its launch in 2007) to 350 and 360 slots since the first week of June. Astro On Demand has also added a HD channel which is airing on channel 350. Other channels on Astro on Demand are in SD only.

A new channel on Astro has been added. The new channel is called Lifetime and it is part of the A+E Network which includes History, History HD, BIO and Crime & Investigation. It started broadcasting on June 14 at 6:00 pm. The channel offers a mixture of TV dramas, reality shows and movies where Lifetime produced more movies than any other channels of the world, claims Michele Schofield, the senior vice-president, programming & marketing, Asia Pacific A+E Networks. It also wants to do localised programming like what the other A+E Network channels did. The channel targets young women at the average age at 30 and also invites men to also watch the channel's programmes. (Source: The Sun Daily) Through self-observation during the launch, I found out that Lifetime is broadcast in 14:9 aspect ratio, like how Cartoon Network Asia did. I'm planning to do a list of channels broadcasting in 14:9 aspect ratio later. The first programme aired was Dance Moms Season 1.

Hypp TV 
Hypp TV had another 7-day free viewing period between June 7 and 13 after a technical problem that occured on June 4.

(Edited on June 21 and 24)