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Television broadcasting in Malaysia is provided by the federal government and respective private broadcasting companies. The government is committed to provide digital television to every Malaysian's household by end-2015 under DTTV (Digital Terrestrial Television) Project which is a part of national agenda by 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.
DVB name | LCN | Launch date | Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) | Programming language(s) | Availability |
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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 | Malay, English, Indonesian, Indian (Tamil), Iban (Bumiputera Sarawak), Kadazandusun (Bumiputera Sabah) and 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 | |
DVB name | LCN | Launch date | Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) | Programming language(s) | Availability |
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TV3 | 103HD | 1 June 1984 | 24 hours | Malay, English, 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 | Malay, Chinese (Mandarin) and Indian (Hindi) |
DVB name | LCN | Launch date | Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) | Programming language(s) | Availability |
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Awesome TV [5] | 112HD | 3 August 2020 | 24 hours | Malay | Nationwide |
DVB name | LCN | Launch date | Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) | Programming language(s) | Availability |
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SUKE TV [6] | 116HD | 28 March 2022 | 24 hours | Malay | Nationwide |
DVB name | LCN | Launch date | Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) | Programming language(s) | Availability |
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TV AlHijrah [7] | 114HD | 7 December 2010 | 24 hours | Malay, English and Arabic | Nationwide |
DVB name | LCN | Launch date | Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) | Programming language(s) | Availability |
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Bernama TV [8] | 121HD | 28 February 2008 | 24 hours | Malay, English, Chinese (Mandarin) and Indian (Tamil) | Nationwide |
DVB name | LCN | Launch date | Broadcast hours (UTC+08:00) | Programming language(s) | Availability |
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TVS [9] | 122HD | 10 October 2020 | 24 hours | Malay, English, Iban, Chinese (Mandarin), Korean, Thai, Indonesian, and Turkish | Nationwide |
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