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Broadcast hours Programming language(s) Availability TV3: 103 HD: 1 June 1984 24 hours Malay, English, Indian (Hindi), Turkish, Indonesian and Korean: Nationwide NTV7: 107 7 April 1998 English and Malay: 8TV: 108 HD: 8 January 2004 Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien) and Korean: TV9: 109 22 April 2006 Malay, Chinese (Mandarin) and Indian (Hindi)
TV3 started 24-hour broadcasting on that time as the first 24 -hour broadcasting in Malaysia and resumed 24-hour clock broadcasting in conjunction with New Year's Day on 1 January 2010, 24-hour clock broadcasting again on 1 December 2015. TV9 started broadcasting 24-hour clock a day in conjunction the hijri date of the first day of Ramadan ...
TV1 transmits 24 hours a day since 21 August 2012 (the channel had first began trial broadcast 24 hours in 2005), [92] more than 6 years after its sister channel did so (3 April 2006). [93] TV1 and its sister channel, TV2 also airs programmes during the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration annually. [94]
TV1 broadcast overnight many times since the early 1990s, but daily 24-hour transmissions did not come until 2003, which was later cancelled. Permanent 24-hour broadcasting was introduced on 3 April 2006 on TV2 and on 21 August 2012 on TV1. On 28 December 2013, RTM celebrated 50th anniversary of television in Malaysia. [199]
In April 1995, broadcast transmissions of TV2 and its sister channel TV1 were disrupted for two hours due to a power surge after Tenaga Nasional's cables went damaged. [46] In conjunction with RTM's 50th anniversary on 1 April 1996, TV2 began 18 hour broadcast while its sister channel, TV1 began 24 hour broadcast. [47] [48]
The first 24-hour broadcasting in Malaysia was introduced in 1997 by TV3, but was discontinued later due to energy-saving plan (see below). Since April 2006, TV2 broadcast round-the-clock followed by TV1, which began broadcasting 24 hours in August 2012 after having short-lived round-the-clock broadcast previously.
In May 2007, in conjunction with its first anniversary, TV9 extended its broadcasting hours from 75 hours to 85 hours a week. [80] On 6 September 2007, TV9, along with its sister channels TV3, NTV7, and 8TV, were made available for online viewing via Media Prima's newly-launched streaming service, Catch-Up TV, which later rebranded as Tonton.