Malaysian TV

For some reason, RTM decided to discontinue it's streaming broadcast of channels a while ago. Go to RTM's site and cast a vote to bring steraming back and let your voice be heard! Vote at lower right corner of the main page . .

A lot of Malaysians may not realise this, but the phrase "Tipah tertipu" (I, Tipah was conned {that sounds wierd in English}), Originated from this movie called Ali Setan way back in 1985 . I felt the need to point this out less somebody mistakingly attributes this catchy phrase to the band Ruffedge which was later also made into a movie . And who is this familiar person who was responsible of uttering these famous line "Tipah tertipu bang, tipah tertipu"? It's no other than Queen of Jazz her Sheila Majid ! Here have a look at the clip:- .

Dad and I was was talking over breakfast the other day and we got to talking about Online TV and videos on the Net. I was saying how it will eventually take over conventional TV. He said that is all find and dandy but who the hell is going to sit in the computer room and watch TV hours on end. Can 't you hook up the PC to a TV somehow? The answer is yes, and this is how you hook up your PC to your TV . .

If you ever wondered how your tax ringgit is being put to work. If the KL International Airport was a good idea, or if it was really necessary to build the most spectacular building for the KL skyline, that is the twin towers. Be rest assured that at least some of your money IS being put to good use. Catch the lavish, beautiful grand wedding of some Pahang royalties that no one has even heard of. Go ahead, catch it on NTV 7. Even if you hate weddings. Let it be a reminder that life is not fair and it's better to be born lucky than to be born able. P.S. I love the twin towers and if you hate it, you're probably over 35 and never got to run for office. "A Wedding Story" - Sunday, 9 November 2008 at 8:30 p.m. .

Now you get to watch 3rd Rock From the Sun, Mad About You and a bunch of shows I never heard of right here on the Internet. So go on down to http://www.tvland.com , and get your TV fix. GO watch TV Online right now. Go get your fix. The Net is getting sweeter and sweeter. .

Like TV3, 8TV , ntv7, TV9 and RTM , Astro also offers their shows online . You have to already be a subscriber the corresponding Astro package for you to view the videos though. And the site seems to only work on Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. UPDATE: Check out http://malaysiantvonline.com/ .

For reasons that I can't fully understand, Radio Televisyen Malaysia's (RTM) old/alternative website is still up albeit partialy at: http://www.rtm.gov.my/tv/ Wonder why that is... The current RTM website can be accesed both through http://www.rtm.gov.my and http://www.rtm.net.my  and I want to point out we still don't have RTM streaming live broadcast of RTM 1 and 2 . Which really bums me out.. .

The Malaysian TV Guide is down this week due to technical reasons... You can check the terrestrial tv listing here .

Below are show that you can view of the net and are available at tv3 website via thier Catch Up TV :- 360 999 AIR MATA MARIA AKASIA: BELLA AKASIA: EZORA AKASIA: MANJALARA AKASIA: SPA Q AKASIA: SUTERA MAYA AKSI: IMPAK MAKSIMA AKSI: KABER HERO KABER ZERO AKSI: PEPAYA AL-KULIYYAH ANUGERAH BINTANG POPULAR ANUGERAH JUARA LAGU KE 22 ANUGERAH SKRIN 2008 BANG BANG BOOM BULETIN UTAMA CASA IMPIAN DENDAM DIARI RAMADAN RAFIQUE 2 DUNIA ANITA DUNIA BARU EXPLORACE KIDS FARA GANG STARZ II GHAZALROCK GUAMUZIK SUPERGIG 08 HAIWAN TELADAN ICIP-ICIP JALAN JALAN CARI MAKAN JANGAN TIDUR LAGI JEJAK RASUL 13 JEJAK RASUL 14 JOM RONDA BERSAMA PROTON KISAH KAISARA KONSERT JOM HEBOH LESTARY: JELATANG LESTARY: KU MILIKMU LESTARY: SINDARELA MAGGI MENCARI BINTANG MAJALAH 3 MARIA MELODI MR. MAMA MUZIK MUZIK MY AUSSIE ADVENTURE NONA PERTAMA RAMADAN PUTERI RAYA BERSAMA FARA REMAJA ROMEO SENARIO SENARIO GAMATNYA RAYA SERAM: ANAK PONTIANAK SERAM: KEKASIHKU SERU SERAM: SAKA SERAM: SUSUK SHAMSUL @ BAZAAR RAMADHAN SINGGAH S...

Every single episode of south park episode is now made available by South Park Studios . Legal, great quality, and minimal ads. They're never going to air this on Malaysian TV . I love this episode .

Here are the EPL mathes for tonight (27 September 2008):- 7:40 pm -(L)Everton vs. Liverpool 9:55 pm -(L)Man Utd vs. Bolton Here's a neat little trick to find out what time the EPL games are: Just Google 'EPL' and it will give you up coming game's start times. I didn't think Americans watch football, I mean 'Soccer'... Here's more EPL on Google. P.S. The this search link is for google.com. my  and it will give match times in Malaysian time. So if you're from somewhere else, don't be lazy, go to Google and type in  'EPL' yourself. .

I just noticed that in order to view the shows on the ntv7 site you have to register first. It takes about 3 seconds, but still? What's the point? The other channels who are offering their videos don't bother. I think doing this just creates another barrier between the audience and the content. Most people are going to go, "Fuck this shit, there's a whole Internet out there why bother with this?". Do you want viewers to access your content online or don't you?

What pisses me off about Amazing Race Asia 3 is it's full of models, beauty queens and actors...  What's the point then? Isn't the whole point of reality TV is to watch everyday people (it helps if they're cute) doing non-everyday things. If I wanted to watch an actor act, I'd watch a regular show.. sheesshhh... Well anyhoo.. I'm rooting for the Malaysian team cause, I funny that way, and the team from India cause I like old people... plus rich famous people shouldn't play... Give poor ugly folks with hearts a chance will ya? New episodes Every Thursday 9 pm. For repeats scan the Malaysian TV favourite Astro Channels guide . .

Catch all three EPL matches that are on tonight! Not a fan? Go watch Grey's Anatomy instead on NTV7 .

American Idol is coming back soon! Well maybe not so soon. Next year January 2009. And joining the party will be someone no one's ever heared of: Kara DioGuardi! Here is an old promo for Malaysian Idol, just to keep us going till then. .

Here are the Premier League games scheduled to air on Astro this week:- ********************************* Saturday (20 Sep 2008) ********************************* ESPN Malaysia (812) 19:40 - (L)Sunderland vs. Middlesbroug 21:55 - (L)Liverpool vs. Stoke City Star Sports Malaysia (813) 21:55 - (L)West Ham vs. Newcastle ************************************* Sunday (21 Sep 2008) ************************************* ESPN Malaysia (812) 00:30 - (D)Blackburn vs. Fulham 20:55 - (L)Chelsea vs. Man Utd Star Sports Malaysia (813) 00:25 - (L)Bolton vs. Arsenal 18:55 - (L)WBA vs. Aston Villa 21:55 - (L)Man City vs. Portsmouth .

Hi, I am the TV Man and I love watching television. My love for reality TV shows stands firm despite my strong and lasting belief that it should have been Rudy and not Richard Hatch to have won that very first Survivor. Although rarely indicated through this blog, I also watch an insane amount of movies, and wish to one day be able to watch Reservoirs Dogs all the way from beginning to end. Sometime in 2006, after going through the various TV guides that were available online, I became frustrated with the search features and information that these sites had. I found the 'one page per channel' thing annoying. I wanted to see all of channels listed together on one page just like in the weekend newspapers. At the time, even Astro's monthly magazine/booklet, listed out shows per channel. As if a person would go, "I really feel like watching The Discovery Channel today, wonder what's on... Let me get that Astro magazine/booklet thingy and painstakingly go through the fi...

It's the English Premier league and everyone is going crazy. Matches between Manchester United and Liverpool, always cause a fuss. Here are the Live EPL games for today (Saturday, Sep 13 2008) on ESPN (812):- 7:40 pm -(L)Liverpool vs. Man Utd 9:55 pm -(L)Blackburn vs. Arsenal StarSports (812):- 9:55 pm - (L)Portsmouth vs. Middlesbroug .

The truth is no matter how hard you try, no one source is able to reliability give you an accurate listings of the shows on TV.  Not Astro , not TV3 or the other channels websites... None of them is right 100 percent of the time. Often even the station's own website gets their TV show listings wrong. When I first started this site, this became a source of frustration for me. Now, I have come to accept the fact that things just can't be perfect. The TV guides you find on this malaysiantv.blogpot.com , are mostly are derived from Astro's  listings. So mistakes from their site will result in mistakes on the listing here as well. I always believe  it's better to have more than one source of information. To that end, below are the daily tv  listings (terrestrial channels) from 2 major Malaysian newspapers The Star's Daily TV Guide Utusan Malaysia's Daily TV Guide .

Part of what malaysiantv.blogspot.com has to offer are the weekly TV guides (the links are listed somewhere on the site on the left panel I think). The guides has been down for 2 months due to technical problems. But now, The Malaysian TV Guides Are Back! Malaysian TV Guide All the free terrestrial TV channels My Favourite Astro Channels TV Guide My favorite Astro channels Astro Sports TV Guide Sports channels on Astro Malaysian TV Online .

Notice how being hungry makes you really moody? Happy Fasting to those who are fasting. Here's something to watch that won't make you hungry or angry:- .

At one point Din starts talking about how there's a lot of copycats to Wakenabeb... does he even watch MTV?

With RTM 's streaming service appearing to have been discontinued/suspended, one would suspect that RTM is now following the footsteps of the media prime channels; NTV7, TV9 , TV3 and 8TV  and is now offering selected TV shows on their site in a 'YouTube-like-Catch Up TV' kinda deal. _

Malaysia walked away from the Olympics last night with its sole Silver medal. Congratulations Lee Chong Wei!

Now that the Silver is in the bag. Malaysia's Last Hope For Gold will rest in the hands of Lee Chong Wei! Watch the Heart Stopping Action 8:48 PM tomorrow (17 August, Sunday) on Astro Channel 821 . UPDATE: RTM 1 is BROADCASTING THE MATCH LIVE! Now even the poor (yes I'm talking about you), who can't afford satellite TV (cheap/frugal) can still watch the games LIVE when it matters. Power to the people. I've always loved you RTM!!! I'm watching it right now and can confirm...Alamak Hasbullah Awang is commentating... oh well... ---

I think bloggers are the last people who should be offering advise to people about anything. Especially advise regarding how to sustain a long lasting and loving relationship. "Tells the story of a man who helps young people with their relationships through his blog, Goda. Starring Lash Moktar and Sazzy Falak." Tonight's the first episode: 9:30 pm tonight (Thursdays) on 8TV. If you miss it, you know what to do .

This is crap, the only bit of the Olympics opening ceremony I got to see... and it turns out the sweet 'buncit' looking girl did a Milli Vanilli. Who gives a shit anyway, Hindustan movies do it all the time, hardly anyone complains. Give em a break. I now present 2 quality Chinese Lip-Syncing masterpieces:

The Olympic games are here and we are once again treated to 2 glorious weeks of sweaty men and women running, jumping, dancing, swimming and all around letting it all hang out. Both RTM and Astro are covering the Olympics in Beijing this year. The extent of the coverage however, remains as cryptic to me as those single sleeve tops women wear. Anyway, this means you can watch the Olympics live, online via RTM's Online TV Streaming website. Astro's covering the Olympics event with several dedicated Olympic channels . "KUALA LUMPUR: Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek has confirmed Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) as Malaysia’s official broadcaster of the Beijing Olympics, scheduled for Aug 8 to 24. RTM 1 will provide live coverage of the games for six hours and RTM 2 for four hours daily, with an hour of the daily report, he said at the launch of the “Beijing Olympics 100 Days Countdown” at Berjaya Times Square here Wednesday night. ...

Seconds after replugging the TV after almost a month of abstinence (Non-voluntary), the set lit up to a bright colorful but unfamiliar show. The show is quirky and falls somewhere between Dexter and Desperate House Wives. I remember thinking Why have I never heard of this show before? Booted up the internet and according to 8tv's site, Ugly Betty was suppose to be on. I was pretty sure that whatever that was airing was definitely not Ugly Betty. I hate that show. Anywho, after a second futile attempt at Astro's site, I finally found the answer at thestars.com.my's TV listings (It's funny how inacurate these TV listings are... my TV Listings are no better, but I'm working on it...). The show was 'Pushing Daisies', and here's the premise:- This romantic comedy shows us the fairy tale like world of Ned, a man who can bring dead people back to life through the power of his touch. The same touch he must use to 'kill' them after no more t...

One of the channels that Astro offers is AXN (a three letter acronym I have yet to decipher). They offer this channel bundled in their basic package. I consider it to be one of my favorite Astro channels and I seem to consistently gravitate to it when not watching my guilty pleasure (American Idol) or pretending that watching television can be every bit as nourishing to the mind as reading (Discovery channel - Myth busters). You will find the AXN Asia site very informative. It even offers the AXN channel guide for the entire month for you to download and print at your leisure.

As I was watching American Idol yesterday, it occurred to me that besides TV3 and 8tv , Media Prima also owned the other two terrestrial channels: ntv7 and tv9. So it stands to reason that these two channels would also provide access to their In housely produced TV shows. A quick check on their website confirmed this to be true. NTV7 – ‘Catch up TV’ – Main page, right at the top; tv9 – ‘Episod Penuh’ / ‘Sajian Kami’ – Main page, also right at the top. This discovery, which I later shared with my dad, thrilled him to no end. I have only recently introduced him to the web and the fact that I made it known to him that he can now view the entire season of one of his favorite evening TV shows (Mari Bertarannum) through the PC, cemented my place as his favorite son. UPDATE: Checkout Tonton

TV3 and 8tv have both made their programs available on their website with a service they call 'Catch Up TV'. It is and interesting concept. The format is much like Youtube (better quality) and they cut up each episodes into easy to digest parts. I’ve read some where that the shows aren't going to be posted on the web indefinately and are only going to be offered for fixed length of time. Just enough for you to err.. catch up. It's easy to find, right at the top 'Catch Up TV'. TV3 8TV UPDATE: Checkout Tonton.

Watching TV online is getting more and more common these days. In fact these days, I watch more 'television' on the PC rather than on an actual TV set. RTM makes its channel available via it's 'live streaming link'. (No longer active) Registration only takes a second, and they throw in a bunch of old school RTM radio stations Gen X and Y can hardly relate to... RTM 1 LIVE RTM 2 LIVE Could only get it to work on Internet Explorer. RTM live streaming (No longer Active) UPDATE (18 August 2008): RTM seems to have stopped their streaming TV service , perhaps because of the Olympics... We have to wait and see if they will bring the service up again after UPDATE (27 September 2008): The RTM live streaming page can once again be accesed , sadly, it now longer offers RTM 1 and RTM 2, instead what is on offer are is RTM's LIVE radio stations broadcasts. Sit back and relax as you listen to selections from Klasik Nasional and Traxxfm ( Traxx isn't so bad.....

Many people might not know this, but TVP, hs been airing on TV9 for quite sometime now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Pendidikan