Responsive Card Layout Until 1989, turning on the radio in Malaysia meant listening to the government. Then a station in Johor Bahru went on air as Best 104 – the country’s first private radio station, and the first to broadcast from anywhere outside Kuala Lumpur. Responsive Card Layout It is still going today as Best FM, still based in Johor. …

Responsive Card Layout Very few radio stations anywhere in the world broadcast in languages spoken by only a few thousand people. Malaysia runs one of them. Responsive Card Layout Asyik FM is RTM’s station for the Orang Asli, the indigenous communities of Peninsular Malaysia, and it goes out in Aslian languages alongside Malay. The live stream is playing on this …

Responsive Card Layout Most news you hear on the radio has passed through two newsrooms before it reaches you. An agency gathers the story and files it; a broadcaster then rewrites it and reads it out. Responsive Card Layout Bernama Radio removes the second step. It is run by BERNAMA, the national news agency that supplies much of what the …

Responsive Card Layout Sarawak FM went on air in June 1954. Malaysia did not exist yet – it would be another nine years before Sarawak joined the Federation and the station found itself part of a national network. Responsive Card Layout Seven decades later it is still RTM’s main radio service for the state, broadcasting in Malay and Melanau around …

Responsive Card Layout When radio arrived in Sabah, one network was never going to be enough. The service that went on air in 1955 ran two in parallel – one in Malay, and another carrying Kadazan, Murut, Dusun, Bajau, English and Mandarin between them. Responsive Card Layout That division still stands, and Sabah FM is the Malay-language side of it: …

Responsive Card Layout There is a neat coincidence buried in Radio Klasik. The station that plays Malaysia’s oldest songs also happens to be its oldest radio service – the same continuous broadcast that began in 1946, when there was not yet a Malaysia to broadcast to. Responsive Card Layout Today it is RTM’s home for classic Malay music, running 24 …

Responsive Card Layout Malaysia is not the first place most people would look for a milestone in Indian-language broadcasting. Perhaps it should be. Responsive Card Layout Minnal FM holds an unusual distinction: it was the first 24-hour Indian-language broadcast service anywhere in the world. Today it is RTM’s Tamil-language station, and the live stream is playing on this page – …

Responsive Card Layout In June 1975, Malaysian radio sounded different for the first time. Nasional FM went on air as the country’s first station broadcasting in FM stereo – two channels of sound instead of one, and a noticeably cleaner signal than anything else on the dial. Responsive Card Layout Five decades later it is RTM’s Malay-language national station. The …

Responsive Card Layout Malaysian radio has a habit of being made in Kuala Lumpur for Kuala Lumpur. Molek FM was built for somewhere else entirely. Responsive Card Layout The station broadcasts to Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang – the east coast of the peninsula – and it is a genuinely recent arrival, only on air since 2022. The live stream is …