List of television stations in Malaysia

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

Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM)

Name	Availability	Launch date	Broadcasting area	Broadcasting hours (UTC+08:00)	Languages
TV1	Analog/Digital	28 December 1963 (1963-12-28)	Nationwide	24/7	Malay, English
TV2	Analog/Digital	17 November 1969 (1969-11-17)	Nationwide	24/7	Malay, English, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Indian (Tamil and Hindustan) and Korean
TVi	Digital	10 April 2011 (2011-04-10)	Nationwide	24/7	Malay, English , Iban (Bumiputera Sarawak) and Kadazandusun (Bumiputera Sabah)

Media Prima

Name	Availability	Launch date	Broadcasting area	Broadcasting hours (UTC+08:00)	Languages
TV3	Analog/Digital	1 June 1984 (1984-06-01)	Nationwide	24/7	Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, English, Chinese and Hindustan
NTV7	Analog/Digital	7 April 1998 (1998-04-07)	Nationwide	06:00-01:00	Malay, English and Chinese
8TV	Analog/Digital	8 January 2004 (2004-01-08)	Nationwide	06:00-01:45	English, Chinese and Korean
TV9	Analog/Digital	22 April 2006 (2006-04-22)	Nationwide	06:00-01:00	Malay, Korean and Indonesian

• Starting 1 April, Media Prima introduced CJ Wow Shop.

Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia

Name	Availability	Launch date	Broadcasting Area	Broadcasting hours (UTC+08:00)	Languages
TV Alhijrah	Analog/Digital	7 December 2010 (2010-12-07)	Nationwide	24/7	Malay and English

Pertubuhan Berita Nasional Malaysia

Name	Availability	Launch date	Broadcasting Area	Broadcasting hours (UTC+08:00)	Languages
Bernama News Channel	Digital	28 February 2008 (2008-02-28)	Nationwide	24/7	Malay, English, Tamil and Chinese

Pay television providers

Satellite television

• Astro- View full channel listings.
• NJOI- Free satellite TV from Astro, as launched in March 2012, is a co-operation between the government and Astro.View full channel listings.

IPTV

• HyppTV- HyppTV is available for UniFi and Streamyx 4Mbit/s/8Mbit/s. View full channel listings.

Internet Video Streaming

• Netflix
• Viu (streaming media)
• Iflix
• Amazon Prime Video
• BBC Player
• Tonton Live TV
• 1Malaysia TV
• EDUWEBTV
• MobTV
• TVSelangor
• Cyberjaya-tv.com
• Astro on the Go

Other TV stations

• Asia Media
• Bernama News Channel (known as Bernama TV before 25 May 2016)
• Vision Four

Former or defunct channels and networks

• Former Astro channels (by timeline).
  • Asia Business News, replaced with CNBC on 1 February 1998.
  • NBC Asia, replaced with National Geographic Channel on 20 July 1998.
  • Metro Goldwyn Mayer, replaced by MAX Asia on 24 August 1998.
  • STAR Mandarin Movies, ceased broadcasting on 9 August 2003.
  • TechTV, removed in 2006 with TV Pendidikan.
  • Discovery Real Time, replaced with Discovery Turbo due to its rebranding in October 2008. Later, Discovery Turbo, rebranded to DMAX on 7 July 2014.
  • Astro News (carries program from DWTV, Al-Jazeera & Australia Network), ceased on 1 March 2009. Replaced with Australia Network while DWTV programmes carried by Bernama TV.
  • 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.
  • BBC Entertainment, replaced with The Biography Channel on 1 December 2009.
  • ETTV Asia, replaced with CTi TV on 1 January 2010.
  • 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.
  • Channel (V), replaced with FOX TV on 16 June 2010.
  • TVB8, replaced with TVB Entertainment News Channel on 1 July 2010.
  • TLC was preceded by Discovery Travel & Adventure and Discovery Travel & Living, before it adopted its current name in September 2010.
  • Hallmark Channel is the name of Diva before 19 September 2010.
  • STAR Movies, rebranded to Fox Movies Premium on 1 January 2012. The change occurred in both SD and HD feed.
  • WATV, ceased broadcasting on 1 March 2012. Programs broadcast by the channel is now carried by Astro AEC.
  • B4U, replaced with Astro Bella on 5 March 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.
  • Discovery Home & Health Asia, changed its name to Eve on 1 August 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 until April 29, 2017.
  • Astro Zhi Zun HD changed its name to Astro Wah Lai Toi HD on 6 October 2014.
  • 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.
  • Sundance Channel was terminated at midnight, 1 July 2016.
  • Zee Variasi ends its broadcast at midnight, 1 October 2016. Tara HD replaced it on 19 October.
  • ITV Choice ceased to be carried on 16 January 2017 at 12:15 a.m., due to low popularity of the channel.
  • Go Asean Ceased Transmission as This Channel 2 Years at 12 June 2017 at 2:00 a.m.
  • Kah Lai Toi ends its broadcast at midnight, 1 October 2017 and Life Inspired also ends its broacasts at midnight, 7 October 2017 due to financial losses of the company.
• Former HyppTV (UniFi) channels
  • Total Variety Network (tvN) HD, replaced with Channel M HD on 23 November 2012. As of June 2016, the channel reverted into its current name.
  • SS TV, replaced with Polimer Channel on 1 January 2013.
  • Nat Geo Music, replaced with Channel V International on 1 September 2013.
  • KidsCo, ceased broadcasting on 10 February 2014.
  • Nat Geo Adventure, replaced with Nat Geo People on 1 March 2014 as a part of the channel's rebranding.
  • 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.
  • FashionTV HD, ceased broadcasting in May 2016.
  • Hikmah, replaced by Salam HD on 5 June 2016.
  • Five Astro channels on HyppTV are Astro SuperSport HD, Astro SuperSport 2 HD, Astro Oasis, Astro Awani, Astro Vaanavil and one non-Astro channel are Makkal TV was terminated on 1 August 2016.
• Three channels where still remaining, these channels terminated because of the same broadcast.
  • MNC Channel, replaced by Pesona HD, due to celebrating its 7th birthday on 1 April 2017.
  • Two channels, Bindass and Bindass Play ceased broadcasting on 1 April 2017.
  • Fox Sports News has ceased broadcasting on 29 April 2017 because all channels were not broadcast now.
  • Syfy HD, Universal Channel HD, HyppSports 4 HD and Hao Xiang Shopping Channel has Ceased Transmission on July 1, 2017.
  • Mega TV, closed operations on 1 October 2001.
  • eTV, closed operations on 29 February 2016.
  • ABNXcess, closed operations in 2016.
• Others
  • 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.