List of television stations in Malaysia

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Television broadcasting in

Ministry of Communications and Digital and managed by Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).[1] The analogue transmissions were completely turned off on 31 October 2019 and switched to full myFreeview Digital TV broadcast using DVB-T2 technology.[2] The switchover was done in stages by territory which begun in all peninsular states starting from the central and southern on 30 September 2019, north and east on 14 October 2019 and Sabah and Sarawak on 31 October 2019.[3] The digital TV transmissions' Service Level Availability (SLA) currently stood at 99.9% coverage rate.[4]

The first trial broadcasts of digital TV started in 2006 by government-owned Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM). Some local TV channels already are broadcasting shows in HD for special occasions since 2008. Free-to-air and subscription-based television channels in Malaysia are available in HD standards through terrestrial, satellite and IP, as well as over OTT platform.

Currently there are only two free-to-air digital terrestrial platform with high-definition digital television channels in Malaysia, named as myFreeview and NJOI.

Government-owned television free-to-air broadcast channels

Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM)

DVB name
LCN
Launch date Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) Programming language(s) Availability
TV1 101HD 28 December 1963 24 hours Malay and English Nationwide
TV2 102HD 17 November 1969 Malay, English, Chinese (Mandarin), Indian (Hindi, Tamil and Telugu), Korean and Turkish
OKEY 110HD 21 March 2018
Bajau
Sukan RTM 111HD 1 April 2021 Malay and English
Berita RTM 123HD 25 June 2020 Malay, English, Chinese (Mandarin), Indian (Tamil), Iban (Bumiputera Sarawak), Kadazandusun (Bumiputera Sabah) and Bajau
TV6 113HD 1 March 2021 06:00 - 02:00 Malay

Over-the-top (OTT)

Private television free-to-air broadcast channels

Media Prima Berhad

DVB name
LCN
Launch date Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) Programming language(s) Availability
TV3 103HD 1 June 1984 24 hours
Indian (Hindi), Turkish, Indonesian and Korean
Nationwide
NTV7 107 7 April 1998 English and Malay
8TV 108HD 8 January 2004 Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien) and Korean
TV9 109 22 April 2006
Indian (Hindi)

Awesome Media Network Sdn Bhd

DVB name
LCN
Launch date Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) Programming language(s) Availability
Awesome TV[5] 112HD 3 August 2020 24 hours Malay Nationwide

DNF Group Sdn Bhd

DVB name
LCN
Launch date Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) Programming language(s) Availability
SUKE TV[6] 116HD 28 March 2022 24 hours Malay Nationwide

Semi government television free-to-air broadcast channels

AlHijrah Media Corporation

DVB name
LCN
Launch date Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) Programming language(s) Availability
TV AlHijrah[7] 114HD 7 December 2010 24 hours
Arabic
Nationwide

Malaysia News National Agency (BERNAMA)

DVB name
LCN
Launch date Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) Programming language(s) Availability
Bernama TV[8] 121HD 28 February 2008 24 hours Malay, English, Chinese (Mandarin) and Indian (Tamil) Nationwide

Sarawak Media Group (SMG)

DVB name
LCN
Launch date Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) Programming language(s) Availability
TVS[9] 122HD 10 October 2020 24 hours Malay, English, Iban, Chinese (Mandarin), Korean, Thai, Indonesian, and Turkish Nationwide

Subscription-based providers

Satellite television

Digital terrestrial television (DVB-T2)

  • MYTV
  • NJOI (available for several free-to-air digital television channels)

IPTV

Over-the-top (OTT)

Local OTTs

International OTTs

Other television stations

Former or defunct channels and networks

Former
Astro
channels (by timeline)

Former Unifi TV channels

  • 2024
    • CinemaWorld HD ceased broadcast and transmission on 1 January 2024. Replaced by HITS Now HD.
    • Paramount Network HD ceased broadcasting and transmission on 1 April 2024.

Former Tonton Live TV channels

Former HBO GO live TV channels

  • 2021
    • RED by HBO HD ceased broadcasting and transmission on 1 July 2021 due to lack of advertisements.

Former MYTV Mana Mana live TV channels

Other pay television providers

  • 2001
    • Mega TV ceased transmission on 1 October 2001.
  • 2016
    • eTV ceased transmission on 29 February 2016.
    • ABNXcess ceased transmission in 2016.
    • Fine TV

Former Malaysian Channels From Other Countries

  • 2020
    • Sun Music
      .

TV channels

  • 1999
    • MetroVision ceased broadcasting and transmission on 1 November 1999 but relaunched as 8TV on 8 January 2004.
  • 2005
    • Channel 9 was for a hiatus on 1 February 2005. Replaced by TV9 on 22 April 2006.
  • 2008
    • DidikTV KPM
      on 17 February 2021.
  • 2009
  • 2011
    • Muzik Aktif was replaced with TVi due to its relaunch on 11 April 2011.
  • 2012
    • Channel M
      on 23 November 2012, on 1 June 2016, the channel reverted into current name.
    • WBC, closed down since October 2012 due to financial problems.[10]
  • 2017
    • Hao Xiang Shopping Channel ceased broadcasting and transmission on 1 July 2017, replaced by LAKU Mall on 1 June 2017.[11]
  • 2018
    • TVi was replaced with TV OKEY due to its relaunch on 21 March 2018.[12]
  • 2019
    • CJ Wow Shop ceased broadcasting and transmission on 1 January 2019. Later, CJ Wow Shop officially broadcasting and transmission restore resume again from 15 April 2019 (excluding Unifi TV).
    • Channel W was discontinued on 1 April 2019, replaced by TVS at myFreeview on 6 February 2021.
  • 2022
    • Astro GO Shop (Malay) officially ceased broadcasting and transmission in myFreeview on 19 June 2022.
    • Wow Shop (Chinese) officially ceased broadcasting and transmission in myFreeview on 2 November 2022.
  • 2023
    • Wow Shop (Malay) officially ceased broadcasting and transmission in myFreeview on 8 November 2023.

References

  1. ^ MCMC (8 November 2012). "MCMC Shortlists Three Companies for Round 2 in Bid for Digital TV Infrastructure Tender" (PDF). mcmc.gov.my. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 October 2021.
  2. ^ DTVE Reporter (19 December 2019). "Malaysia completes DTT switchover, launches myFreeview". Digital TV Europe.
  3. ^ Sofia Digital (17 December 2019). "Malaysia completes switch-over to digital TV powered by Sofia Digital's DVB head-end technology". sofiadigital.com.
  4. ^ KKMM (12 August 2020). "Bernama : 12 Aug 2020 : Parliament: MYTV monitors quality of digital TV broadcast". kkmm.gov.my.
  5. ^ Awesome TV official website
  6. ^ "Suke TV Official website".
  7. ^ TV Alhijrah official website
  8. ^ Bernama TV Page
  9. ^ TVS Official website
  10. ^ Mohsin Abdullah (19 October 2012). "WBC employees seek HR ministry's help". Fz.com.
  11. ^ enjoytvmy. "enjoytvmy". Facebook.com.
  12. ^ Zam Yusa (21 March 2018). "Najib launches new TV channel for Sabah and Sarawak". Free Malaysia Today.

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