List of assets owned by Media Prima

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This is a list of assets owned by Media Prima Berhad, a Malaysian media and entertainment conglomerate based in Balai Berita, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur.[1]

Media Prima Content & TV Networks

Media Prima owns and operates five free-to-air television channels, each of them functioning under their own branding and subsidiaries. TV3 and NTV7 were established long before Media Prima exist, while others, 8TV and TV9 were formed through the group's acquisition of defunct television companies.

Name Company Language Notes Ref.
TV3Sistem Televisyen Malaysia BerhadMalay and EnglishLaunched on 1 June 1984. Both New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad and its owner company are the founding members of Media Prima.
NTV7Natseven TV Sdn BhdMalayLaunched on 7 April 1998 (as NTV7). Shifted to education channel on 17 February 2021 (as DidikTV KPM).
8TVMetropolitan TV Sdn BhdChinese (Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien)Launched in 1 July 1995 as MetroVision and ceased operations in 1999. Relaunched as 8TV on 8 January 2004.
TV9Ch-9 Media Sdn BhdMalayLaunched in September 2003 as Channel 9 and ceased operations in February 2005. Relaunched as TV9 on 1 April 2006.
Drama SangatSkyten Marketing Sdn BhdMalay and ChineseLaunched in 27 October 2017.

Wow Shop is the group's teleshopping network. It was established on 22 February 2016 as CJ Wow Shop, a joint venture with Korean conglomerate CJ Group's subsidiary, CJ E&M. The teleshopping network became a fully owned subsidiary after the group bought CJ's remaining 49% stake.[2][3] Apart from TV3, NTV7, 8TV, TV9 and Malaysia's No.1 edutainment channel, DidikTV KPM, Wow Shop is also available in two purpose-built channels on my Freeview.[4] Tonton (formerly gua.com.my and later Catch Up TV) is the group's Over-the-top media service (OTT) which covers viewers across multiple devices such as computers, tablets, smartphones.[5]

Media Prima Audio

Logo of Media Prima Audio

Media Prima Audio (formerly known as Media Prima Radio Networks and later Ripple Media or simply Ripple) is a radio broadcasting subsidiary of Media Prima.[6][7] It includes five radio broadcast brands – Eight WuXian (formerly One FM, 8FM and Eight FM), Kool FM (briefly Buletin FM and Kool 101), Fly FM, Hot FM (formerly WOW.fm and WaFM), Molek FM and a podcast platform – Audio+ (formerly Ais Kacang).[8] As of November 2021, based on the October 2021 Gfk Radio Survey, Media Prima Audio is the most popular radio network in Malaysia with over 5 million listeners and 57 million digital listeners since its rival, Astro Audio.[9] However, Media Prima does not have Tamil-language radio stations, unlike Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) and Astro.

Name Company Language Notes Ref.
Fly FMMax-Airplay Sdn BhdEnglishLaunched on 3 October 2005[10]
Hot FMSynchrosound Studio Sdn BhdMalayLaunched on 6 February 2006[11]
Eight WuXianOne FM Radio Sdn BhdChinese (Mandarin, Cantonese)Launched on 19 January 2009[12]
Kool FMKool FM Radio Sdn BhdMalayLaunched on 1 March 2016[13]
Molek FMMalayLaunched on 1 January 2022[14]

New Straits Times Press

Media Prima owns more than 98% equity interest in the New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad (NSTP), which owns three of Malaysia's most recognised print and online news brands – namely its namesake the New Straits Times,[15] Berita Harian and Harian Metro[16][17] and their respective weekend editions[18] as well as an online newspaper archive, KLiK. Apart from news brands, NSTP also owns printing subsidiary Print Towers Sdn Bhd, tertiary education reference website Mind Campus[19] and learning portal FullAMark.[20]

Out-of-home advertising

  • Big Tree[21]
    • Kurnia Outdoor
    • UPD
    • The Right Channel
    • Gotcha
    • Big Tree Seni Jaya

Production and distribution

  • Primeworks Studios

Primeworks Studios Sdn Bhd is a content company and commercial subsidiary of Media Prima. It is one of Malaysia's production houses with content output in diverse categories covering television, cinema, and digital platforms.[22][23] While it starts producing television series as early as 1984, Primeworks only began to identify themselves by introducing their own logo in July 2008 to distinguish from Grand Brilliance, another Media Prima subsidiary which was established in 1995.

REV Media Group

REV Media Group (formerly Alt Media and later Media Prima Digital)[24] is a new media subsidiary of Media Prima which consists of the following brands:

Integrated Solution Provider

  • Media Prima Omnia[43]

Former assets

References

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