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Country | Malaysia |
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Broadcast area | Malaysia Singapore Brunei Thailand (Southern Thailand) Indonesia (Kalimantan) and (Riau) via DVB-T2 |
Headquarters | Damansara Perdana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor [1] |
Programming | |
Picture format | 16:9 SDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Online Dynamics (M) Sdn. Bhd. [2] [3] |
History | |
Launched | 1 December 2011 29 March 2012 |
Closed | 31 December 2018 (Malaysia on Unifi TV) 1 April 2019 |
Replaced by | TVS |
Former names | Capital TV HD |
Links | |
Website | channelw |
Channel W was a Malaysian television channel broadcasting news, business matters, entertainment, and interviews, owned by Online Dynamics (M) Sdn Bhd, a Bumiputra-owned media company. [2] The W in the channel name stands for Warta (gazette in English), referring to the newspaper Warta, also owned by Online Dynamics. [4]
As Capital TV, the channel primarily broadcast in English, but over time, the channel began to gradually add more Malay-language programmes. Capital TV changed its name to Channel W on 3 January 2018. Channel W ceased broadcasting on 1 April 2019. It was replaced by TVS at myFreeview on 6 February 2021.
The channel began as Capital TV, broadcasting exclusively on Hypp TV [3] [2] in high definition on Channel 127. [2] Touted as "Malaysia's first local business channel", the channel began broadcasting on 1 December 2011 [3] and launched on 29 March 2012. [2] Its first editor-in-chief was Pravin Kumar, who formerly worked with the national news agency Bernama. [3]
In May 2014, Capital TV signed an agreement with Aylezo Sdn Bhd to produce motorsport-related content, specifically for "Team FXPrimus Aylezo’s participation in the 2014 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia Season", which would only air in 2015. [5]
In September 2014, Capital TV aired the reality TV programme Bake & Sell, dubbed as "the first local cookery and entrepreneurship show" inspired by similar programmes such as The Great British Bake Off and The Apprentice. [6]
In August 2015, Capital TV produced and aired Jejak Jeneral, a 13-episode documentary series on the members of the Malaysian Armed Forces. [7]
In 2016, Capital TV in collaboration with Radio Televisyen Malaysia and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) produced the 15-episode talk show Persoalannya, where two panelists from UPM and two other panelists discuss on various current issues. [8]
On 3 January 2018, Capital TV became Channel W, ditching its initial business format for news and current issues presented casually. [4] As part of its name change, the Capital TV channel stopped updating and redirected to the Channel W website. [9]