Sunday 13 October 2013

Media news (episode 33)

Welcome to this week's media news.

RTM
Some weeks ago the Pesta Sukan RTM was held in Kota Kinabalu between September 22 and 25.



Media Prima 
This week I listed out many new programmes that are airing on TV3 since this month. Click here.

A special sponsored programme called "We Are Maersk South East Asia" airs for two weeks (October 7 and 14) on TV3 every Monday at 5:35 pm replacing the re-run of Music Box 2012. The programme is in English with Malay subtitles provided by other company on behalf of Maersk, not TV3's. This programme is about Maersk's experiences as a shipping company. Such programmes about shipping are rarely aired on TV.

On October 7, I saw the last bit of Majalah 3 (just after having a haircut along with my brother) where it mentioned about a internet school radio station called SKTM2FM which is located at SK Taman Melawati 2.

On October 8, I checked 8TV's Hot FM AM Krew programme. I think this is not the first time I saw the changed but I don't really realise this. The long-running live SMS chatting has gone and replaced by advertisements for how to send popular song ringtones via SMS, programmes that stream on Tonton and text greetings that appear on screen by sending via SMS. The Buletin Hot FM news updates are now using the resources of Berita Harian and Harian Metro instead of Bernama, much like other radio stations which now rely on their parent companies' news services such as Era relying on Astro Awani (since 2012) and Star Radio Group radio stations rely on The Star. How times changed.

Line Offline which airs on NTV7 and 8TV ended on October 11 with the last episode called "The Prank".

Reality series The Apartment which airs on Star World is now also seen on NTV7 with Season 3. NTV7 airs it every Saturday at 9:30 pm. The NTV7's airing is sponsored by Dulux.

TV9's branding for this year's Aidiladha reuses the existing Jawi writing of "Ikhlas" but in a different design. TV3 uses "Salam Aidiladha".
TV9 Ikhlas Aidiladha Disyukuri 1434H 2013M

On October 12, during the Pemilihan UMNO polling day, TV3 aired a variation of its existing blue-coloured TV3 news ticker. It is brown-coloured. The ticker can also be seen on NTV7 and TV9 on that day. Also during that day, news updates about the election were given during the day.
Special Pemilihan UMNO brown ticker from TV3 news 12-10-2013


A quick check on TV channels made by Youtube user "KokKZM" at 2:45 am the next day reveals that NTV7 and TV9 did not close as usual because they want to air updates on the Pemilihan UMNO polling results calculations.


Hypp TV
On October 11, I checked Euronews and saw that the channel had its graphics revised and redesigned to be 16:9 safe (to fit any widescreen-sized television sets, not the normal squared ones).


TV Alhijrah
TV Alhijrah has started airing two hours of live images from Masjidilharam in Makkah courtesy of Saudi Arabian state TV's Al Quran Al Karim channel since last week for the haj season. It airs daily between 12:00 and 2:00 am. Meanwhile, TV Alhijrah's Aidiladha design and theme song for this year remained the same as last year except the colour scheme changes to yellow instead of green.

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