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TVS (an initialism of its former name, TV Sarawak) is a Malaysian free-to-air digital television channel that provides news updates, variety shows, sports, and all programming from the region of Sarawak to the all states in Malaysia and other countries in Southeast Asia.
According to MYTV, the initial annual rental fee for a 24-hour free-to-air TV channel was RM12 million for an SDTV channel and RM25 million for an HDTV channel. [7] However, following reports of Media Prima might quit free-to-air transmission due to unviable fees, [16] MYTV may introduce bandwidth based charging, which is already in consideration.
While the programs hosted from both channels can be streamed in Disney+ Hotstar, their channel slots were replaced by Global Trekker HD, Love Nature 4K and Love Nature HD on 15 January 2023. Boomerang HD and TA-DAA! HD channel ceased broadcasts on 1 February 2023. TA-DAA! HD channel slots were replaced by DreamWorks Channel HD on the same day.
The television channel used to broadcast from a building in Jalan Liku, Bangsar, Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur before it moved to Sri Pentas, Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya, Selangor in 1995. [20] [21] Initially, the channel ran for seven hours a day - 5:00pm to 12:00am relying largely on television series produced mainly in the UK and the USA.
The DTV era in Malaysia began with the introduction of direct broadcast pay television service, Astro, in 1996 as part of commercialisation of space.Astro now transmits about 130 local and international TV channels in the MPEG-2 video format through the K u band utilising the MEASAT satellite system's transponders, according to the DVB-S standard.
In March 2001, MetroVision – then tentatively named Channel 8 [a] – was bought by Arab-Malaysian Corporation Berhad, which is owned and controlled by Tan Sri Azman Hashim. The corporation also owned Radio Rediffusion Malaysia and planned to operate the dormant station for 10 years [ 60 ] [ 61 ] under the new name, Redi8 .
First stereo audio broadcasting was introduced in 1985 by TV3. Five out of eight channels do not have 24-hour schedule. 24-hour television was introduced in Malaysia between 13 and 16 May 1989 on TV1. The first 24-hour broadcasting in Malaysia was introduced in 1997 by TV3, but was discontinued later due to energy-saving plan (see below).
CableView Services Sdn. Bhd., operating as Mega TV was Malaysia's first ever subscription-based pay television service. [1] [2] [3] It was incorporated on 18 October 1994 and began transmissions on 1 November 1995 and was operated by Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad (), a Malaysian free-to-air television network owned and operated by Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB).