Media news (episode 27)

Welcome to this week's media news.

RTM
On August 26 I saw a promo for Opah. The 1980s drama series which is now revived airs every Wednesday at 9:00 pm on TV1.

Salam Baitullah will start airing in late September on TV1. It will be sponsored by Bank Rakyat.

This week I saw TV1's news ticker saying that a presenter audition for Mini Parlimen for children will be held at the Theaterette of Wisma TV Angkasapuri.  

Media Prima
On the evening of August 27 I saw Media Prima TV channels did not air their news programmes. It is such a strange moment for me. When I watched the end of 7 Edition of that day on Tonton on September 1, it was found out to be a technical fault. When I checked Berita TV9 on that day on Tonton too, it elaborated that news visuals cannot appear was the cause of the technical fault. I checked TV3 on August 27 and found out that it aired an episode of Edisi Khas as a filler programme in the midway during Buletin Utama and end at 9:00 pm. NTV7 aired some documentary series since 7:00 pm without an airing of Edisi 7 and 8TV and TV9 aired a longer version of Biodiversiti Malaysia PSA just before 8:30 pm.

TV9 will start re-running a telenovela called Rosalina which has been aired on TV3 in the early 2000s on a brand new drama block called Estrella. It will air on the block Monday to Friday at 11:30 pm. TV9 has never aired any telenovelas before but it had experience airing a few Filipino dramas. The drama block's slot was previously occupied by Hot TV and Fly FM Stripped which airs on Monday to Wednesday and drama re-runs and other programmes on other weekdays. Hot FM is now airing every Friday at 7:30 pm instead which replaces Hot TV Extra which is a compilation of Hot FM which airs Monday to Wednesday. Here is a screenshot of the logo of the new block, taken from Rosalinda's promo on TV9's Youtube channel.

I've mentioned about Pesta Bola Merdeka in the last episode. Pesta Bola Merdeka will also air on Astro and Tonton live TV streaming besides TV9. Here is a screenshot of Pesta Bola Merdeka coming soon on Tonton live TV streaming.

On August 30, I saw TV3's Buletin Utama reused the original name graphics which is used since October 2012. TV3 has stopped using the previous name graphics used since last July.

TV3 resumes using normal branding on August 26 after using the Seindah Ramadan-Anugerah Syawal branding.

On September 1, I saw Sembang Sembang Jom Heboh and other Jom Heboh-related programmes produced in HDTV and aired in 16:9 letterboxed on TV3. This weekend's Jom Heboh is held at Sandakan in Sabah.

Astro
This week I saw Disney Channel and Disney XD slightly changed their promo design. A banner which has the channel's logo and the airing date and time inside a line is located on the bottom-left side of the screen.

Hypp TV
Hypp TV has just launched three new channels at the end of this week. Click here.