New programmes that will air on TV9 in 2014 are Shoutul Quran, Ke Korea Ke Kita and Ya Beda Bedu. Returning programmes are SIS and Hijab Stailista. Just months before 2014 new programmes start to air such as Korean variety Two Days and One Night, Vektor 58 and Apa Saja FBI which is returning for a new season. The new Korean programmes that air on TV9 gives me an indication that TV9 now concentrates more on Korean programming like how TV2, NTV7 and 8TV did. TV3
While TV3 has its own Drama Festival related programme which is Festival on Sunday evenings, TV9 has its own which is called Shorties which airs short movies made by Drama Festival contestants. It will air every Saturday at 7:00 pm.
In terms of schedule revisions, this has happpened a few months before 2014. The schedule revision affected Bananana on TV9 and TV9's closing time. On 25.11.2013, the weekday 1:30 to 2:30 pm slot has been changed to local drama re-runs, replacing Bananana Whizz Bang block which also aired on weekday mornings on NTV7. The block aired cartoons from Warner Bros. Animation which has been previously aired on TV3 such as Xiaolin Showdown, Baby Looney Tunes and Static Shock.
For 2014, SIS and Hijab Stailista which returns for the new year with Season 2 now airs its weekly new episodes on Fridays at the 7:00 pm hour, which replaces the usual Bananana block at 7:00 pm and Hot TV at 7:30 pm which now moves to Sundays at 7:00 pm. The Saturday 11:00 am hour is now for the programmes' repeats instead of weekly new episodes in the first half of last year. If SIS and Hijab Stailista go for a hiatus in the second half of the year like how they did last year, then the Friday 7:00 pm hour and Saturday 11:00 am hour slots may be reserved for other Raudhah programmes.
9X programme block has also added another timeslot on weekends which is at the 7:00 pm hour. It supplements the Monday-Wednesday 10:30-11:30 pm timeslot. The Sunday 7:00 pm timeslot and later the Saturday 7:00 pm timeslot was previously used by Bananana until it was replaced by 9X in the latter part of 2013.
Local childrens programming under the Bananana branding is also increasing with new programmes such as Vektor 58 and Ninja Cat Ichi Ni San on TV9, Ema Emyliana and a not-yet-airing and unnamed action series inspired from some Japanese tokusatsu series on TV3, unlike in the past until seven years ago when there were almost no local children's programmes at all and lots of foreign cartoons. TV9 also no longer air any anime like Kochikame and Perman other than TV3 and NTV7.
TV9's closing time is now slightly earlier after Rosalinda ended its TV9 run at weekdays 11:30 pm to 12:30 am slot on late December 2013. Rosalinda now airs daily as a rerun at 10:00 am since it began airing on weekends on 4.1.2014 replacing drama reruns (I previously said that it airs on weekdays at 10:00 am). The last programme of the day on Monday to Friday and Sunday is Tanyalah Ustaz. This means TV9 will now close at varied days on Mondays to Thursdays and Saturdays at 12:30 am and Fridays and Sundays at 1:30 am. The last time TV9 changed its closing time to just 1:30 am instead of 1:00 am was in February 2012 where TV9 changed some of its programmes' airtimes.
Revised on 3.1.201, 5.1.2014 and 28.1.2014
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