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 . .

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.. .

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 .

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. _

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 (No longer active) Registration only takes a second, and they throw in a bunch of old school RTM radio stations Gen X and Y can hardly relate to...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 RTM live streaming (No longer Active) UPDATE (18 August 2008): RTM seems to have stopped their streaming TV service , perhaps because of the Olympics...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.....

I was checking out today's TV listings and noticed that the show Top Gear on wil be airing today on RTM 1 at 4:30 pm. Is this the same Top Gear that's airing on ntv7 ? How come it's only half an hour? Oh well, we'll find out later I guess...