TV on-air presentation update #10

What happened in the world of TV presentation last week?

RTM has confirmed the date of the live broadcast of the Laureus Sports Awards held in Kuala Lumpur this year which is on 26.3.2014 at 8:30 pm on TV2.

RTM has announced in a recent ABU conference held in Kuala Lumpur that RTM will start digital TV broadcast in two phases. Phase 1 will start at 3Q 2014 and end on 3Q 2015. Phase 2 will start at 4Q 2015 and end on 2Q 2016.


A news report on TV1's Info Sukan on 6.3.2014 saysRTM launched its 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign called Rio To Malaysia on 5.3.2014 with a 100-day countdown to the first day of 2014 FIFA World Cup. RTM as a licensed broadcaster for the World Cup will broadcast 24 live matches and 11 delayed matches. This is the eleventh time RTM airs the FIFA World Cup and has been doing so since the 1974 FIFA World Cup. The other broadcaster airing FIFA World Cup is Astro. Media Prima is simply promoting the FIFA World Cup without really broadcasting it although the broadcaster had aired the UEFA Euro matches, the AFC Cup matches and the 2013 African Cup of Nations. The video below is a capture of TV1 Rio To Malaysia on-screen logo animation loop spotted on 6.3.2014 which I took from TV1's livestream (tv1.rtm.org.my).


Speaking of TV3, the Mon-Thu 1:00 pm slot from this month onwards is now a mix of various programmes which are all reruns, not just drama reruns until last month. Monday is Spice Routes season 5, Tuesday and Wednesday is Iris and Thursday is Edisi Khas.

TV1 Mon-Thu 1:00 pm newshour schedule (as of March 2014)

This is how TV1's Monday to Thursday 1:00 pm newshour schedule looks like. I arrange it by myself according to my observation of the channel during that time.

1:00 pm Berita Nasional
1:30 pm Info Sukan
1:40 pm Diva
1:50 pm Niaga Nasional

Info Sukan and Diva are part of Berita Nasional while Niaga Nasional is a standalone programme. Niaga Nasional shares its graphics with Biz Malaysia.

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TV on-air presentation update #9

What happened in the world of Malaysian TV presentation this week?

On 25.2.2014 during Buletin Pagi, I spotted TV3's 30th anniversary banner which has a days left countdown and "3 Dekad Bersama" slogan. This is the first sign of TV3's upcoming birthday in June. This countdown banner screenshot was taken furing Buletin 1:30 on that day.

RTM's Youtube channel uploaded a promo of the revived Mini Parlimen, an old children's programme. It will start airing on 8.3.2014 every Saturday 10:30 am on TV2.



Astro Awani reported on 18.2.2014 that Astro launched Malaysia's first multilingual TV guide in Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil. It would take six weeks to roll out to all Astro B.yond subscribers. A video tutorial on Astro's new TV guide has started airing this week on Astro channel 100. Astro has set up a website on the new TV guide which is available on www.astro.com.my/epg.

TV2 will air the Laureus Sports Awards which is going to be held in Malaysia for the first time live, as evidenced from this promo uploaded on 28.2.2014.

NTV7 will air American Idol starting March. American Idol was previously aired on Malaysian free-to-air TV through 8TV until last year.

TV3's Buletin Utama has added a new segment which is called Fakta Kes which contains brief news about crime. I spotted this on 17.2.2014.