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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.
Peninsular Malaysia used this local mean time until 1 January 1901, when they changed to Singapore mean time GMT+06:55:25; this changed to GMT+07:00 in 1905. Between the end of the Second World War and the formation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963, it was known as British Malayan Standard Time , which was GMT+07:30.
Malaysia started DVB-T tests in 2006, and the first DTTB services were rolled out in a few areas of the country in January 2014. [33] [34] On 6 June 2017, digital television officially launched in the country with the launch of MYTV Broadcasting.
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.
Digital television in Malaysia was first rolled out in January 2014. [19] [20] By June 2015, free digital television was provided by MYTV Broadcasting. In the first phase, there would be around 15 digital television stations nationwide with further stations will be added in the next phase. [21]
The advent of digital television has facilitiated Malaysia's constituent regions to launch their own public broadcasters: Sarawak's state government officially launched TVS in October 2020 after a 6-year trial period since 2014, [10] Sabah followed suit launching the TV Sabah mobile streaming service in April 2023 with plans to establish its ...
The primary regulator of telecommunications in Malaysia is the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). It issues licenses under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, the Postal Services Act 2012 and the Digital Signature Act 1997.
The digital TV transmissions' Service Level Availability (SLA) currently stands at a 99.9% coverage rate. [3] The first trial broadcasts of digital TV started in 2006 by a government-owned television broadcaster Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM). Some local TV channels have been broadcasting shows in HD for special occasions since 2008.