Prob a few reasons behind this:

1. Bandwidth
Our current set of 2 muxes is pack full of programs, so if you wanna add those channels inside those muxes, you'd be reducing the currently abysmal bitrate down even lower, reducing the viewing experience , we could probably add those if we activate a third mux though, no plans when it'd be done.

2. Costs
Bringing in those channels will cost money as a program distributor, esp in terms of licensing and adding network capacity to carry those channels.

Dump and get rid of all the useless channels we have to make way for more capacity.

They are already free to air region free on the internet, just look at Sirius TV those channel lineups are just going to ruin the whole brand name with useless contents observed to be rubbish Aussie contents.

DW News Live:



Al Jazerra World News Live:



Earth TV Live World Weather



I'm sure those who lives in tree houses and long houses in the great rural will want to keep in touch with world news too, they don't have internet so the satellite is the only way to deliver news and knowledge to them.

NHK World TV Live

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/

ARIRANG WORLD TV KOREA



Channel News Asia Live



CGTN World Live

https://america.cgtn.com/livenews

Ditto for mytv will introduce highclass content to the masses, then kampung ppl will complain cannot understand

Mytv nowadays is just catering for the masses, idk about they'll put other things inside it with all those rtm+media prima channels

Those are NOT high class contents but are free to air channels which are region free all available on the internet.

Even my late grandparents who got the chance to experience TV box live TV contents commented about Malaysian government airing dumb unwanted low grade contents for peasants to watch claims its very obvious to dumb the lower segments of societies who are in poverty.

Not only it's a joke in the eyes of the world to ridicule our country, it keeps those rural folks without the internet or access to outside the world to be dumb enough to keep falling for their political baits and bribes so that they'd listen to everything they tell them approaching elections.

If you feed them with highly informative and up to date FTA contents such as those documentaries like NHK World, Arirang Korea or CGTN, they'd soon catch up with the latest technologies which are used in Japan/Korea/China they'd one day wake up and see through all our government lies.

Do you know how our politicians found out about pesticide spraying drones? They were watching these kind of channels while our poor citizens who could only afford terrestrial TVs were fed with dangdut dancing low IQ contents.

Do you know why our environmental awareness is also so low and not being able to keep up with the international communities? This is also another reason when TV is just as good as "NOT" watching at all.

Yeah, but many kampung ppl has poor grasp of english, so that's why they cant understand. (and highclass because "deep" english)

Even if you petition them to add these, there's a problem of mytv execs are quite laid back on that and kinda cash-strapped too.

This post has been edited by surrodox2001: Nov 20 2020, 12:13 AM

They will if the contents of the channels are highly interesting and addicting like those documentary and news channels I suggested above.

The last thing our government wants is a HIGHLY educated and informed society just like those of Switzerland, Norway, Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, HK and Singapore...

As a highly dumbed down society with low IQ is highly useful for the top 1% rich segment to exploit.

Anyway, quite hard to make mytv add those bcoz malay mindset and needs to protect local culture and media...

I'd like to see a mux being opened for private use tho (not mytv)... (kinda like com5/6/local mux in the freeview system in the UK, you can add local channels, movie channels and that, but as shaun_kok says, its quite hard...)

This post has been edited by surrodox2001: Nov 20 2020, 12:30 AM

That's the excuse they keep giving to make sure their plans get through.

Wait till you find out that even the Japanese and Mainland Chinese English newscaster have better English proficiency than our local ones. A country proud to be an ex-colony of British.

I'd observe my old folks tv watching habits and the only reason they'd tune in to a local TV channel is just to watch the national news which takes up less than 5% of their daily TV viewership.

Why would our government bleed previous public funds just to keep RTM and Madia Prima alive?

I would say it is not only quite hard but impossible for these channels to enter MYTV. There are just too many restrictions lay down to filter what can be showon TV and what not. Which is what prompted the mushrooming of satellite dishes and now TV Boxes.

Haha what restrictions? Restrictions not to allow our kampungnites and rural folks access to the real global news and technology front so that they can be dumbed down for as long as they can be taken advantaged for cheap labor?

Obviously the dissemination of real informative/educational media contents is highly controlled in our country for corrupted reasons.

Restriction that everyone here knows. So no matter how much talk is done it won't change anything. Keep your hope low for MYTV, get a TV box and enjoy life.

Aiyah Candy12, they are tonnes and thousands of channels on TV Boxes and hundreds or thousands on sattelite decoders, so get one and enjoy. There are tonnes of quality channels and shows on those boxes.

When I see a malay programme/show on MYTV Myfreeview, I either change channel to an English/Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Indian/Thai/
Filipino show.

MYTV is for casual TV watching. But don't worry come 2022, MYTV has plans to open up the MYTV Myfreeview platform to add additional channels from Singapore, Thailand, Philipines and Indonesia. Cross your fingers and hope they do it.

Maybe they can add those channels you suggested but doing so requires sponsors as there is licensing and money involved and MUX3 must be activated when broadcasting on Digital Terrestrial TV.

PS: I just watched an interesting Chinese movie on RTM TV2 on MYTV Myfreeview platform on Thursday night (19-11-2020) at between 9:30PM - 11:30PM titled My Lucky Star (Year produced 2013).

This post has been edited by Wobblyblob: Nov 21 2020, 03:08 AM

what happen to all the wowshop on ntv7, now like filled with didiktv. this channel like tapau already.

Better than the previous shopping channel bs at least these got some value for certain demographics

Thanks to this pandemic, where students have to study from home, those free-to-air TV stations among youths has somehow gain some popularity.
And Media Prima found its new client...

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020...dikan-a-big-hit
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/11/...online-learning
https://www.thesundaily.my/local/tv-pendidi...eased-CL5296015

If this gone well, I'd like a full channel along the lines of Astro study UPSR/PT3/SPM plus with some other documentary/informational/adult learning things available on MYTV, but I suspect that was done before and idk the probability of it.

https://www.facebook.com/officialdramasanga...687051464713670

Oh.

Like someone said before NTV7 already become "tapau" already on its way to become rubbish channel. The only thing worth watching is the foodie shows in English.

On another note, I agree we should have a full separate dedicated channel for DidikTV and TV Pendidikan somewhere along the lines of Astro Tutor TV UPSR, PT3 , SPM and TVIQ with a lot of educational, informational, and kids, youth, student learning and adult learning as well as showcasing documentaries somewhat like US's PBS educational channel.

This post has been edited by Wobblyblob: Nov 28 2020, 10:22 PM

I was listening to WAIfm on a Sunday night between 11pm to 12am, they were playing English music. Must be there English broadcast slot. Good.

This post has been edited by Wobblyblob: Nov 29 2020, 11:37 PM