Sunday 13 October 2013

Media news (episode 32)

Welcome to this week's media news for the week between September 30 and October 5.

Media Prima
TV3 has started airing telemovies nominated for Anugerah Skrin 2013 since October 3. It airs every Thursday at 10:00 pm replacing the usual Pearl Screen block.

TV3 news has a new look which is used since October 1 with Buletin Utama at 8:00 pm. It has a red theme. For the first time in 10 years, the theme tune for its main news programmes have been changed. The previous look was inspired from the current look of German broadcaster ZDF's Heute.

On October 2, technical faults have happened on TV3 and NTV7. When I checked TV3 at 5:15 pm, the TV3 logo appeared during a commercial break. TV3's fault screen appear around 6:00 pm and then resumed with Saladin without TV3 logo. NTV7 had its technical fault at 6:00 pm where it failed to air E7 Daily. A fault screen which reads "good feelings continue right after this" which started used a few years ago appeared until around 6:09 pm when normal programming resumed in progress with the top-right logo and subtitle faded out slowly. TV3 later announced in its ticker that there will be a system maintenance between 1:30 and 5:00 pm which was probably because of the earlier technical fault. The last time TV3 closed down was in January 2011 for two days because of maintenance.

TV1 and TV3 aired Prime Minister's speech at the United Nations in New York on September 30 at 9:00 pm with Malay subtitles.

Others
On October 1, I saw a news that Bernama TV is being restructured to be more competitive with other news sources.

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