Television and Radio
State-owned RTM operates two free-to-air terrestrial local television channels licensed to broadcast in Malaysia, as well as 32 radio channels nationwide. Meanwhile, Media Prima is the parent company of four television channels and three radio channels.
Privately owned by Astro all Asia networks Plc, Astro is Malaysia's current only Satellite TV provider. There are 200 channels to choose from at a minimum amount of RM 49.95 per month and at a maximum amout of RM 200.00 per month.
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Famous quotes containing the words television and/or radio:
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
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—P.J. (Patrick Jake)