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The Malta Independent on Sunday: Daily: English: 1992: Standard Publications: Nationalist Party: Times of Malta, Sunday Times of Malta: Daily: English: 1935: Allied Newspapers: Nationalist Party: Established in 1929 as Times of Malta Weekly: Malta Today, Malta Today on Sunday: Biweekly: English: 1999: Media Today: Malta Labour Party and ...
The Times of Malta and Il-Progress lasted until 1 March 1929. The English supplement then became The Times of Malta Weekly (forerunner of The Sunday Times of Malta). The Maltese side was named Ix-Xemx, later changed to Id-Dehen and later still to Il-Berqa, first published on 29 January 1932. Il-Berqa ceased publication on 30 November 1968.
TVM+ primarily airs news and educational programmes, including direct learning programmes on Maltese history and culture as well as coverage of current events. [3] It also airs a nightly newscast in Maltese Sign Language for persons who are deaf or hearing impaired. It also airs news broadcasting and also an English version.
News programming on TVM is the only major TV news not produced by a political party's media apparatus in Malta. The two other major Maltese networks (One and NET Television) are owned by the Labour and Nationalist parties respectively. TVM airs TVAM, a breakfast television program focused on news and current affairs, weekday mornings from 06:30 ...
The sister Maltese-language paper Illum was first published in 2006. [3] In 2010, MaltaToday launched its internet news portal, and is the second most popular local news portal. [4] The current editorial lineup includes Kurt Sansone as Executive Editor, with Saviour Balzan as Managing Editor. The online editor is Karl Azzopardi.
Public Broadcasting Services Limited (PBS) is the public broadcaster of Malta.PBS is funded by government grants and the sale of commercial airtime. Its TVM channel is Malta's most watched television channel, and its radio station Magic Malta enjoys huge popularity among local and foreign listeners.
Malta transitioned terrestrial broadcasts to digital television using the DVB-T standard in October 2011. [5] In preparation for the transition, the Malta Broadcasting Authority developed a General Interest Objectives classification to determine which existing terrestrial channels would be assigned to the digital subchannels of the new digital free-to-air broadcasting system.
The most widely read and financially the strongest newspapers are published by Allied Newspapers Ltd., mainly The Times of Malta (27 percent) and its Sunday edition The Sunday Times of Malta (51.6 percent). [citation needed] Due to bilingualism half of the newspapers are published in English and the other half in Maltese.