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Channel 9 was a Malaysian private-owned television station which started operations from Tuesday, 9 September 2003 to Tuesday, 1 February 2005. The station halted its transmission due to intense competition from other local free-to-air television stations and efforts to restructure its debts.

Channel 9 broadcasts programmes that are marketed mostly to Malays and young adults. Its line-up consists of informational, entertaining and educational shows.

History

Channel 9 began its on-air broadcast on Tuesday, 9 September 2003 as Channel 9, and its workforce mostly consists of the former Metrovision employees. The channel's line-up comprised international programmes (mainly Chinese, English and Indonesian language content) and local shows. The Chinese language programming slot was aired between 15.00 pm and 20.00 pm, while Malaysian programmes were aired between 20.00 pm and 20.30 pm. This was followed by English programmes, which were broadcast from 20.30 pm until 23.00 pm.

In 2004, Anaza Sdn Bhd the owner of THR.fm, took over the majority rights to this channel from Medanmas Sdn Bhd. Subsequently, Channel 9 launched its slogan names Malaysia in 2004. Under the new management, the Hindi Power slot for Tamil programmes and Channel 9 Tamil for Tamil programmes were introduced. The former was aired daily from 16.00 pm until 18.00 pm while the latter occupied the 18.00 pm to 20.00 pm time slot. A newer segment for Chinese programmes, called Channel 9 Mandarin, was aired from 22.00 pm to 23.00 pm on Monday to Thursday. Channel 9 English a slot for English was only aired on Weekend from 14.00 pm until 16.00 pm.

On Saturday, 1 January 2005, Channel 9 announced that it was halting its operations on Tuesday, 1 February 2005 to restructure its debts and corporate organisation. It also faced intense competitions from the other free-to-air television stations in Malaysia during that time. On the same day, Malaysia's largest media corporation, Media Prima Berhad announced its acquisition of 98% equity stake in Ch-9 Media Sdn Chd, completing the company's ownership of all private free-to-air television stations in Malaysia. Bukhari Che Muda was elected as the channel's new operations officer. The new owner later renamed the station to TV9 and relaunched it with the tagline Dekat Di Hati (Close to the heart in Malay) and with content geared towards a Malay audience. Test transmissions resumed on Saturday, 1 April 2006 by airing music videos mostly in Malaysian language, The new owner Media Prima Berhad later renamed the station to TV9 and transmission officially resumed on Saturday, 22 April 2006.

TV9 airs its own news segment called Berita TV9 (literally: TV9 News) since 1 January 2006 at 20:00 pm on daily. For four months since it started transmission, Edisi 7 (Formerly known as Warta Nasional ntv7) was broadcast, courtesy of ntv7. Liputan 9 (literally: Coverage 9 or 9 Rpeort) was Channel 9's primetime news programme when it was in transmission was aired started launched run programmes since on 9 September 2003 to 1 February 2005, courtesy of Berita Nasional Malaysia. The first 30-minute version of Berita Perdana courtesy of RTM TV1 was also aired for a few months before the transmission ended. The newsreaders of Berita TV9 include Zuhairah Mustafa Al-Husin, Abu Talib Husin, Syed Mohammad Khair Syed Hussein, Nurazura Abu Samah, Syafinaz Yunus, Amin Hayat Abdul Rahim and Nona Julia Hashim. They were chosen from over 5000 people who auditioned. The TV9 News is brought live from Studio C in Sri Pentas, Bandar Utama.

Channel 9 broadcasts under UHF (Ultra High) Frequency. In the Klang Valley, the UHF channel is 42, with a weaker transmission at 33 in certain parts of the Klang valley. Channel 9 is also available on local satellite provider Astro via Channel 119.

See also

• TV9
• List of Malaysian television stations

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