MYTV Broadcasting
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| Television service industry | |
| Industry | Broadcasting, digital terrestrial television provider |
| Founded | 19 November 2014 in Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia |
| Headquarters | Cyberjaya, Malaysia |
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Areas served
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Nationwide |
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Key people
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Haniza Ros Nasaruddin (CCO) Michael Chan (CEO) |
| Products | Television broadcasting |
| Owner | Altel Holdings/Altel Communications Bhd MYTV Broadcasting Sdn Bhd |
| Website | www |
MYTV Broadcasting or MYTV is the first Malaysian television broadcasting company broadcasting free DTTV-channels in the country without monthly payment. The DTT service is officially branded as myFreeview since August 2015, however the legal name of the company did not change. Around MYR1 billion deal have been signed with Telekom Malaysia to distribute the services. MYTV is owned by Altel Holdings/Altel Communications and was planned to start broadcasting by mid-2015. The set top box has been available for sale as on February 2017, after long delays of buliding infrastructure and other issues. Its main competitor would be free to view satellite based service Astro NJOI, which it has far more channels to view. Coverage for this service (for transmitters already in operation) is currently around 80% of population, which it will expanded to 98% in the future.
Allion Labs, Inc. (Taiwan) has been awarded accreditation from the Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (SIRIM) to become the first lab facility for digital television in Malaysia. Around 30 channels have been set to broadcast in the first stage.HbbTV services are also integrated into MYTV service with the usage of Sofia Digital's HbbTV technology.
East Coast Peninsular Malaysia has been chosen as the first site for testing followed by East Malaysia, and northern and southern Peninsular Malaysia before reaching Klang Valley. In Sabah, around 1,500 households have been selected for the test.
According to MYTV, the initial annual rental fee for a 24-hour FTA TV channel was RM 12 million for a SDTV channel and RM 25 million for a HDTV channel for a continuous 24 hour slot. However, following reports of Media Prima might quit FTA transmission due to unviable fees, MYTV may introduce bandwidth based charging, which is already in consideration.
According to Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek, the MYTV Basic decoder would be distributed to around two million select Malaysian households while other recipients would be determined later. All 2 million households had now been determined and it would be send to recipients house via PosLaju.
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