Buletin FM (formerly Kool FM, stylised as buletin fm) is a Malaysian private

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owned by

Media Prima Berhad Media Prima Berhad, doing business as Media Prima and stylised as media prima, is a Malaysian media company based in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. It is Malaysia's largest media and entertainment conglomerate with business interests in television, pri ...

, which broadcasts in the

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. It was launched on 1 March 2016. It is the fourth radio station of the Media Prima company after 8FM, Fly FM, Hot FM and before Molek FM. The radio station is based on the acquisition of Copyright Laureate Sdn. Bhd. in October 2015, which owns Ultra FM and Pi Mai FM.

History

Originally, Kool FM targeted listeners from the country's

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, with songs being played mostly from the 1980s and 1990s, but it also included some songs from the 2000s and 2010s. Depending on what they were playing, the name was based on the band

Kool and the Gang Kool & the Gang is an American R&B/ soul/funk band formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1964 by brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell, with Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown, and Ricky West. ...

. On 6 January 2020, Kool FM changed its radio format into

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with the new tagline ''Suara Semasa'', focusing on current affairs, social and community, and various talk and infotainment programmes retaining the same announcers, while playing 80s, 90s and current songs. Beginning 4 May 2021, the station broadcast simultaneously on TV9, every day from 3:30 - 4:30 am. Starting 2 August 2021, Kool FM was renamed as Buletin FM and rebranded as the most focused and credible news radio station, with Ally and Hawa (from ''Malaysia Hari Ini'' and ''Buletin Utama''

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respectively) as the new announcers. Buletin FM will complement the

's news and current affairs programming and competes with Bernama Radio. On 29 November 2021, Buletin FM broadcasts in

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and

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were discontinued. It was replaced by Molek FM on 9 January 2022. On 14 March 2022, Buletin FM changed its tagline again from "Info Terkini & Muzik Sepanjang Zaman" to "Isu Semasa dan Info Terkini". From March 28, 2022, Buletin FM no longer broadcast temporarily through the

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