Television broadcasting in Malaysia is provided by Malaysian government and respective private broadcasting companies. Television channels are received through analogue or digital formats since most of Malaysians TV owners subscribe to pay TV service. Malaysian government is committed to provide digital television to every household in Malaysia by end-2016.
Television channels in Malaysia are available in High-definition or HD standards through pay TV service providers. Local TV stations are able to provide HD standards feed once the digitalisation of television broadcast system is done. Some local TV channels already are broadcasting shows in HD for special occasions since 2008. The first trial broadcasts of digital TV started in 2006 by Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM).
List of free-to-air television stations in Malaysia
Astro Kirana, ceased broadcasting on 18 May 2009. Its successor, Astro Citra began broadcasting on 1 June 2009 and will be Relaunch On Singtel TV Pay TV Customers in Singapore Channel 438 and to be announced by Singtel.
Astro Aruna (in-house Indonesian content), ceased broadcasting on 1 February 2010 in Malaysia and Brunei and ceased broadcasting on Singapore using Mio TV and was replaced with Astro Prima on Mio TV on channel 602 with effect from 1 October 2012.
AXN Beyond HD, renamed BeTV HD on 2 April 2012. The renamed channel would become the first channel that cease to be carried on Astro B.yond HD on 26 August 2013 at midnight.
Astro@15, ceased broadcasting at midnight, 1 May 2012. Replaced by Astro Mustika HD on 21 May 2012, while programs broadcast by the channel carried by other Astro's Malay channels.
ESPN Asia, replaced with FOX Sports Asia on 28 January 2013. ESPNews and ESPN HD was renamed FOX Sports News and FOX Sports Plus HD, respectively.
Bio. Channel, ceased broadcasting at midnight, 14 June 2013. Replaced by Lifetime.
Jia Yu Channel, ceased broadcasting at midnight on 1 April 2014. A temporary channel was broadcast for a month before being replaced by Kah Lai Toi on 1 May 2014.
STAR Sports, was renamed Fox Sports 2 on 15 August 2014. On the same day, Fox Sports 3 replaces Fox Sports News, but the latter continues its broadcast through Astro On-The-Go untill April 29, 2017.
When Fox began broadcasting on HD through channel 724 on 16 November 2014, Astro chose to discontinue their SD version.
When iView began broadcasting on NJOI version through channel 302 on 20 January 2015, Astro chose to discontinue their Astro version on 12 January 2015.
Golf Channel ceased broadcasting their SD version on 26 February 2015, 10 days after the HD version of the channel began its broadcast.
Astro hitz, ceased broadcasting at midnight, 16 May 2016.
EMAS ceased broadcasting on 1 August 2014 and was replaced by Hypp Sensasi HD that starts its broadcast three days later.
UTV Stars, ceased broadcasting on 30 September 2014.
TRACE Sports HD, ceased broadcasting on 30 September 2014.
BBC Entertainment, ceased broadcasting on 30 September 2015 (although the channel continued being available until 30 November 2015), replaced by Dreamworks HD, eventually returned in the form of BBC First, a SVOD service.
Discovery Kids, ceased broadcasting on 16 January 2016.
MetroVision Channel 8, ceased broadcasting on 1 November 1999. Replaced with 8TV on 8 January 2004.
Channel 9, ceased broadcasting on 1 February 2005. Replaced with TV9 on 22 April 2006.
TV5, originally launched in April 2017 to replace TVi. However, the channel suddenly ceased its operation in less than a month. TVi returned to its broadcast at the same month.
TV Pendidikan, removed in 2006. Later moved to TV9 ceased broadcasting in 2008. Replaced by EDUWEBTV.
WBC, closed down since October 2012 due to financial problems.[1]
