Thursday, 2 January 2014

Media news daily: TV3 revises its schedule again for 2014

TV3 for the new year of 2014 has made another revision of its schedule. What TV3 refers about the schedule revision is the primetime slot.

According to the recent press release made by TV3, Cik Sherina Mohamed Nordin who manages TV3 and TV9 said that TV3's revised schedule made in June last year received positive response from its viewers. She says that TV3 has a viewing share of 44%. TV3 once again makes a schedule revision for its programmes at primetime for 2014 with only some changes to the programmes' airtime and airing day while the others still remain at the same airtime and airing day (effective 1.1.2014), as said in my previous related post.

Mondays and Tuesdays at the 9:00 pm hour is now reserved for documentaries where 999 and Bersamamu moves to Tuesday instead of the usual Thursday. Majalah 3 still remains on Monday.

Wednesdays and Thursdays at the 9:00 pm hour is now reserved for local drama where Lestary moves to Thursday instead of the usual Tuesday. Aksi still remains on Wednesday. In a related note, the drama which is currently running on the Lestary drama block which is Ku Cinta Kau Seorang has its premiere on Tonton 48 hours before its airing on TV3 through Tonton Premier.

The Pearl Screen movie block which airs Chinese movies moves back to Monday instead of Thursday.

Wrestling sport programme Worldwide Entertainment Wrestling moves back to Thursday at 11:00 pm instead of Monday. I didn't notice this in my previous related post.

The weekend which is Saturday and Sunday is still reserved for entertainment programmes such as Mat Three Four (a dramedy), Res Q (water themed game show) and Kintang Kintung (comedy talk show talking on specific topics which varies in each episode).

A brand new programme block which is set to air on Sunday at 10:00 pm is called Festival. It is not related to the block of the same name which airs local telemovies on NTV7 in the latter part of 2000s. The slot will air telemovies and dramas directed by the speakers of the upcoming Drama Festival 2014.

Other programmes in the primetime are still at the same airtime and airing day.

Speaking about TV3's schedule revision again, this time in other parts of the day other than primetime, Tonton TV schedule has revealed the revised schedule. The revised schedule affects programmes on weekdays between 9:30 am and 12:00 pm, Mondays to Thursdays between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm and Sunday mornings between 9:30 and 11:00 am.

On weekday mornings (effective 1.1.2014), Bananana programmes on weekdays at 9:00 am has been stopped, being replaced by a new local drama called Julia which airs Monday to Thursday at 9:30 am and a new Islamic motivation programme called Positif Pagi (tentative title is Sinergi Hati 2014 according to Tonton TV schedule) which airs Fridays at 9:30 am. Programmes on Mondays to Thursdays that start airing at 10:00 am are now airing 30 minutes later which is at 10:30 am. Other programmes are not affected. This means that TV3 might effectively remove all Disney related programmes which usually air at 9:30 am and has been a norm in the 1990s and 2000s, except for telemovies that air on Saturdays during Bananana Movie Magic and on school holidays.

On Monday to Thursday late afternoons between 5:00 and 7:00 pm (effective 6.1.2014), the local drama reruns which air on Monday to Thursday at 5:00 pm will decrease its length to just 30 minutes instead of a full hour. Bananana on Mondays to Thursdays will now air between 5:30 and 6:30 pm for Monday to Wednesday and 5:30 pm only for Thursday, with local programmes on the former and foreign programmes on the latter. Local programmes will now air at 5:30 pm instead of 6:00 pm with Boboiboy on Mondays, Dunia Eicak on Tuesdays, Saladin on Wednesdays and Bola Kampung on Thursdays. Foreign programmes now air at 6:00 pm instead of 6:30 pm with Kiteretsu on Mondays, Me and My Robot on Tuesdays and Larva on Wednesdays. This means that Bananana on TV3's Monday to Thursday airtime is decreased with a few programmes on Monday to Wednesday late afternoons, only one programme on Thursday late afternoons. The Monday-Thursday 6:30 pm timeslot is now reserved for local comedy series reruns with Simpang 3 on Monday and Tuesday and Pemanduku Jutawan on Wednesday and Thursday.. Other programmes are not affected.

On Sunday mornings (effective 5.1.2014), Spongebob Squarepants and The Troop move their airtime 30 minutes later to 10:00 am and 10:30 am to give way for Fanboy and Chum Chum at 9:30 am. Other programmes are not affected.

Revised on 5.1.2014

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