Media news (episode 22)

Welcome to this week's media news. Almost all of the news that I reported this week are TV branding related.

RTM
On July 18, I found out that the TV1 Mewarnaimu ident used since February 2013 now has some female singing vocals.

Media Prima
Media Prima Digital has launched a Ramadan and Aidilfitri content website. The website is called http://www.ramadanraya.com.my/. The website offers recipies from Ramadan-related cooking shows on Media Prima's TV channels such as Ini Caranya, Mencari Resepi Turun-Temurun and Menu Kalimah, highlights of festive related TV programmes and some web-exclusive shows from Tonton such as Raya Fesyen Kritik at the Fesyen section and 1001 Persoalan.

This week I saw two slight variations of Primeworks Studios endcap. One that I saw in Eve's Diary on 8TV is Primeworks endcap animation followed by 8TV Chinese logo and copyright statement under a white background. Another one that I saw in a repeat of Mencari Resepi Turun-Temurun on TV9 is a slightly extended theme tune of Primeworks Studios endcap.

Also since this week NTV7 celebrates its 15th anniversary with the title "15 Years of Feel Good Moments" with a birthday cake and many candies which is seen in its promo (see video below) and promo designs. The music is a remake of NTV7's ident's music which is used since March 2012. 


From TV9's Youtube channnel, TV9 has revealed its upcoming branding for Aidilfitri which is called "5 malam 4 hari". The song for this branding is performed by Alif Satar, a local singer. This branding is not yet airing on TV9 at the time this was written.


On July 15, I listened to KL FM's Azan Isyak and heard that the bilal was the same one as the bilal heard on TV3 and TV9's azan broadcasts since 2012.

On July 16, I spotted a presentation error on TV3 where the programme name identifier appeared during a commercial break at 4:18 pm.

On July 20, I saw the programme name identifier on TV9 reappearing a few seconds after the end of Azan Zohor during Jom Berbuka. This is a rare occurence because TV9's programme name identifier does not come out after azan broadcast.

Astro
On July 18, I saw an "18+" rating (18+ written in white in a small red dot) located at the bottom-left on ART Variety on ch 111. The rating that I saw was for a drama called Asia which was aired at 6:00 pm on the channel.

Hypp TV
On July 18 during Sahur time, I saw Hikmah ch 113 (the Islamic TV channel that carries programmes from JAKIM) being added to the live TV mosaic on ch 100. Hikmah does not appear at all in picture-in-picture mode since I started watching Hypp TV service in 2011.