Opinion part 2

Who owns the newspapers and TV stations in your country? Do you think this has an effect on the news that you hear?

In my country Malaysia TV stations are both owned by government and private. Here are the list of the TV stations available in the country at the moment:-

Fully owned by government

Free Television broadcast

·         Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM)

1.       TV 1

2.       TV 2

3.       TVi  (Channel 180 Astro and Channel TV Digital)

Discontinued

1.       RTM Arena (Channel TV Digital)

2.       RTM Harmoni (Channel TV Digital)

3.       RTM CY (Channel TV Digital)

4.       RTM Bestari (Channel TV Digital)

5.       RTM Bicara (Channel TV Digital)

Semi-Government Television

1.      Bernama TV

2.      TV Al-Hijrah

Private Television

Free private television

·         Media Prima Berhad

1.       TV 3

2.       Ntv 7

3.       8TV

4.       TV 9

Satellite television

1.       Astro

Cable

1.       Mega TV (Ceased Operations)

2.       MiTV (Ceased Operation)

3.       Fine TV

4.       Vision Four - Provider broadcast to hotels in Malaysia

Televison Online

1.       HyppTV (Broadcast for TM UniFi customer)

2.       Hypp.tv (Broadcast for TM Streamyx customer)

3.       Maxis IPTV (Collaboration between Maxis and TM)

4.       Astro B.yond IPTV (Collaboration between Astro and TimeDotCom)

Source : Wikipedia

Here are the list of newspaper in Malaysia:-

English Language

·         The Borneo Post - English daily in Sarawak and Sabah

·         Business Times

·         Daily Express - English Daily in Sabah

·         The Edge

·         Free Malaysia Today - Daily online newspaper

·         Malay Mail

·         Malaysia Today - Former English tabloid in Sarawak, now a weekly newspaper

·         New Sabah Times - English daily in Sabah

·         New Straits Times - Malaysia's only nationwide English-language broadsheet newspaper until 2005, now in tabloid

·         The Star

·         The Sun

Malay Language

·         Berita Harian - Formerly broadsheet, published in tabloid since July 6, 2008

·         Berita Petang Sarawak - Malay daily in Sarawak

·         Harian Metro

·         Harian Ekspres - Malay daily in Sarawak

·         Kosmo!

·         Melaka Hari Ini - Newspaper in Melaka

·         Mingguan Wasilah

·         Siasah

·         Sinar Harian - A community newspaper

·         Utusan Malaysia - The only Malay-newspaper to continue publishing in broadsheet size (Owned by United Malays National Organization)

·         Utusan Melayu (Jawi script) - Now a weekly newspaper and incorporating with Utusan Malaysia

·         Utusan Sarawak - Malay daily in Sarawak

·         Utusan Borneo - Malay daily in Sarawak and Sabah, publishing by The Borneo Post.

·         Transisi - Malay fortnightly in East Malaysia, published by Uversiti Utara Malaysia)

·         "Suara Keadilan" - Owned by Parti Keadilan Rakyat

·         "Buletin Mutiara" - Newspaper in Penang

·         "SelangorKu" -Newpaper in Selangor

·         Harakah - Owned Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party

Chinese Language

·         Asia Times (Malaysia) - Chinese daily in Sabah

·         China press

·         Guang Ming

·         Kwong Wah Yit Poh

·         Nanyang Siang Pau

·         Oriental Daily News

·         Overseas Chinese Daily NEws

·         See Hua Daily News - Chinese daily in Sarawak

·         Sin Chew Jit Poh

·         United Daily News - Chinese daily in Sarawak and Brunei (not to be confused with the Chinese daily of same name in Taiwan)

Tamil Language

·         Makkah Osai

·         Malaysia Nanban

·         Tamil Nesan

·         Vanakkam Malaysia

source : Wikipedia

In my opinion, for sure there are some affects on the news we hear to cover up some story from leaking to public as some of the Tv stations and newspapers are inclined toward government or opposing party of government but we are wise to choose what we hear and what we watch. For sure there are some affects on the news we hear to cover up some story from leaking to public.