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private

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managed by

Astro Radio Astro Radio Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Airtime Management and Programming Sdn Bhd or AMP Radio Networks) is a Malaysian radio network company which operates radio broadcasting services and more since 1996. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of A ...

, a subsidiary of

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. In 2015, as according to Nielsen RAM Survey Wave #1, My FM maintained its position as Malaysia's leading Chinese-language station with over 2.0 million listeners, although in northern regions of West Malaysia, it was challenged by

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which is currently the leading Chinese radio station there. In the same year, the radio launched an evening Super Drive Time shift every weekday from 4pm - 8pm for

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n listeners.

History

My FM went on air on 1 August 1998, after previously broadcast as an Astro-only radio channel since the launch of the satellite network on 1 June 1996 under the name Chuan Zhen Xin Qu Tai (Chinese name: 傳真心曲台, literally "Fax heart song"). Prior to this, the frequencies of MY FM was used by TalkRadio, along with

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, Mix FM, Light & Easy and Classic Rock (still available on Astro and online, frequency taken over by

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, which also began broadcasting on 1 August of that year) was among the earliest privately owned English language radio stations to be broadcast in Malaysia, having launched into the airwaves on New Year's Day 1997 at midnight stroke MST. It was the second private Chinese radio station in Malaysia after REDI-FM 98.8 (now 988), which had begun broadcasting two years earlier as a trilingual station, but Chinese content represents 50 percent of its programming before it was relaunched as full-fledged Chinese radio station in December 1997. The country had only one Chinese-language radio station before this, which was the government-owned Radio Malaysia Channel 5. Originally, the radio station mainly focused on Chinese songs for all ages. However, with the launch of

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in August 2012, which replaced XFM on Astro and FM frequencies (continued as an online station but now defunct), some older songs and announcers were moved from MY FM to that new radio station.

Tagline

*音乐无限，贴心空间 Great Music,Great Company（1998-2008） *至尊10载有你更精彩（2008-2009） *MY FM MY MUSIC（2009-2018） *More Music More FUN （2015-2018） *MY好玩 MY,It's so Much FUN （up to now2018）

Frequency

Television satellite

Astro (television) All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio Operator, doing business as Astro, is a Malaysian satellite television and IPTV provider. It operates in Malaysia and Brunei and operates from the All Asia Broadcast Centre (AABC) in Kuala Lumpur and MEA ...

: Channel 853 Notes: My Sabah and My Sarawak are not available on via satellite TV Astro.

Gallery

My FM Logo.png, Previous logo.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:My FM 1998 establishments in Malaysia Radio stations established in 1998 Radio stations in Malaysia Chinese-language radio stations in Malaysia