All the screenshots you see in this post are from my Flickr photostream.
RTM
Since the start of Aidilfitri, TV1 and TV2 redesigned their time banners which is located at bottom-left. The time banner for TV1 is now coloured blue while TV2 is coloured orange. TV2 also added today's date in Hijrah calendar with the "H" letter to identify the Hijrah year while TV1 does not add it (TV1 started airing today's date in Hijrah calendar since Ramadan while TV2 airs today's date in Hijrah calendar since Aidilfitri). The today's date in Hijrah year in the time banner's background's colour is green. TV1 and TV2's Aidilfitri programmes branding logo which is animated also appear above the time banner. TV1 has "Warnai Aidilfitri" while TV2 has "Riang Raya".
On August 16, I saw TV2 moved its programme identifier from the usual top-left to below the station's logo. The programme identifier has three short line spaces below the station logo.The first time I saw it was when I checked TV2 and saw it airing a repeat of Konsert Sanggar Lebaran Siti Nurhaliza with the title "KONSERT SANGGAR LEBARAN". This screenshot below was taken during the next programme which is a Chinese programme called Splash Fiesta. On my last check of the channel on August 12 at 1:25 pm, the programme identifier is gone. Another check on the channel after the 1:30 pm programme which is a black and white movie called Mr Smith Goes to Washington revealed that the programme identifier returned.
Media Prima
While looking through my brother Hafiz's video captures on Youtube, I realised that NTV7 had now used the "15 years of feel good moments" branding through idents besides being used in promos and break bumpers. I estimated that NTV7 started using these idents since late July. I also took an opportunity capturing screenshots of the designs of the idents which differs through programme genres and markets (urban and Chinese) in terms of colour and language. They are different from the current idents used by NTV7 since March 2012 which has just 4 colours and something that resembles each programme genre for the programmes which airs on the channel. No change for the programme identifier and next programme identifier which appears during the start of any programme and after each commercial break of any programme.
On August 5 NTV7's The Breakfast Show has got a new look and identifies as being broadcast live from Studio 4 Glenmarie. The Breakfast Show also now has a news segment called Morning Edition which is broadcast live from Studio 7 Sri Pentas.
Two new children's telemovies have been aired on the Bananana children's block. They are I Heart Kurma and Seringgit Kasorga. Both are Aidilfitri-themed and aired on TV3 and TV9. Another Aidilfitri-themed telemovie that was repeated on TV3 on August 18 was Hari Raya Cendawan which might also be a children's telemovie but not Bananana-branded. The telemovie's duration is 90 minutes. Also Dunia Eicak and Saladin Season 1 which have been aired on TV3 will be aired for a week in the early afternoons of August 12-18 on TV9. Bola Kampung the Movie which was in cinemas on March 21 has got its first TV airing on TV3 and TV9 on the first few days of Aidilfitri. The Bola Kampung The Movie characters also recently appeared in an advertisement for Johnson's Baby Cooling Powder.
It seems that Media Prima advertises more about some programmes' second screen services on the internet or other mediums (mostly by spoken word) rather than on TV. In the previous media news episodes I wrote that in Media Prima's Ramadan and Aidilfitri TV screenings, Media Prima announced that Karlos Raya will get a second screen experience, but I didn't see any advertisements on TV about that. One video about Media Prima's Ramadan and Aidilfitri TV screenings that I saw on Budiey's Youtube channel elaborated about Karlos Raya the second screen experience will be a video chat through Google+. Another one that I heard only in the internet but not on TV was Geng Kampung Pisang (comedy series which airs on TV3 last Ramadan) will be aired 24 hours before first airing on TV9. Meanwhile on a promo for 8TV's local horror drama series What If that I saw on TV a few days ago says that the drama gets a second screen experience where viewers can access the drama's website while watching the drama.
Line Offline anime series sponsored by mobile messenger Line has been airing on NTV7 and 8TV since August 5 (evidences: @onelikming and @WindKoh on Twitter). NTV7 airs it at 8:30 pm while 8TV airs it at 9:25 pm every Monday to Friday. The anime series has 50 episodes with each running under 5 minutes. The NTV7 broadcast that I observed on August 12 has English dub in American English accent without any translation subtitles while the 8TV broadcast has Chinese dub with Chinese subtitles. The same episode is aired on both channels on the same day. A "Line Everywhere" animated advertisement is seen after each episode ends the anime (the end credits are not aired but the opening titles do with the credits which appear in Line's speaking bubbles in English on NTV7 or in original Japanese on 8TV) and straight away goes to the next programme.
TV3 news has added a small Salam Aidilfitri logo under the TV3 news' programme title since midway during Buletin Utama on August 9. The screenshot below was taken during the end of Buletin Utama on August 12. The logo was replaced by an animated Jalur Gemilang flag with the days left on the right side of the flag as of my last check on August 16.
I also found out that the font and design for the credits seen during the end of TV3 news' programmes remain unchanged since first used on 1.10.2012 while the name graphics other than the credits have not changed as reported in episode 23 of media news.
Astro
On the evening of August 12, I saw PGA Tour on Golf Channel Astro ch 815 airing in 14:9 aspect ratio, not the usual 4:3 aspect ratio.
Priscilla Patrick who does the traffic updates on Astro Radio has moved to Star Publications' radio stations. She had worked for Astro Radio presenting traffic updates for a long time.
Astro Awani now permanently added a blue business exchange stock ticker and stock exchange index information as of last check of the channel on August 15. Another check of the channel on August 17 finds out that only the stock exchange index information appears on weekends and days where there are no stock exchange trading days. The ticker and the index information is located the lower part of the screen with the headline ticker and was previously only appeared during stock exchange trading days between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm.
Hypp TV
Last week and this week I spotted Emas ch 112 had a brief occassion where a few programmes shown on the channel had their aspect ratio upconverted from the original broadcast aspect ratio of 4:3 to 16:9 windowboxed on the channel's 4:3 aspect ratio broadcast signal. They are Mitosastras (local drama), Siapa Pintar (children's game show aired on TV9 in 2009) and Gila Gila Shopping (shopping-related reality show aired on NTV7 in 2006 and produced by Niche Film Sdn Bhd). Hypp TV does not have aspect ratio upscaling options unlike Astro.
(Small revision on August 24)
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