Red FM (Malaysia)
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Red FM is a private radio station that broadcasts across Peninsular Malaysia
and Singapore
. It is managed by Star Rfm Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Star Publications (M) Bhd
. Red FM began broadcasting on September 1, 2001 and is currently one of Malaysia's top five English radio stations.
The station is targeted at urban and suburban listeners, playing a selection of the best music from the 80's and 90's as well as current favourites. Recent listenership surveys have shown that Red FM is Malaysia’s fastest growing English radio station.
Promising its listeners using their slogan "Today’s Best Music", the station plays 40 Minutes Non-Stop Music – commercial-free – every hour from 11am to 10pm daily. This is in addition to the 104 Minute Music Marathon that happens every day from 9am to 10.44am.
. The current reincarnation was in 2008, when it dropped the 104.9 in the RED 104.9 FM, to became RED FM only.
Peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia , also known as West Malaysia , is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula. Its area is . It shares a land border with Thailand in the north. To the south is the island of Singapore. Across the Strait of Malacca to the west lies the island of Sumatra...
and Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
. It is managed by Star Rfm Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Star Publications (M) Bhd
The Star (Malaysia)
The Star is an English-language, tabloid-format newspaper in Malaysia. It is the largest in terms of circulation in Malaysia, according to the . It has a daily circulation of between 290,000 to 300,000...
. Red FM began broadcasting on September 1, 2001 and is currently one of Malaysia's top five English radio stations.
The station is targeted at urban and suburban listeners, playing a selection of the best music from the 80's and 90's as well as current favourites. Recent listenership surveys have shown that Red FM is Malaysia’s fastest growing English radio station.
Promising its listeners using their slogan "Today’s Best Music", the station plays 40 Minutes Non-Stop Music – commercial-free – every hour from 11am to 10pm daily. This is in addition to the 104 Minute Music Marathon that happens every day from 9am to 10.44am.
History
The radio station originates back to 1949, as the first commercial cable-transmitted radio stations. In 1989, 49% of the stakes in Rediffusion was acquired by Arab-Malaysian Group. It changed its name to Rediffusion Cable Network in 1991. In 1996, FM transmission was launched as a trilingual service. While, in December 1997, REDI-FM 98.8 was relaunched as a full-fledged Chinese radio station, marking the end of monopoly of a Chinese radio-station in Malaysia. The frequency was changed to 91.5 FM, immediately, and it became a bilingual radio service. By the end of the year, cable transmission ceased. In 1999, the frequency was changed to 104.9 FM, but 91.5 FM was not taken over by any radio station, until 2001, when IKIM.FM (Malaysia's Islamic radio station) takes over the previous FM slot and began broadcasting. In 2003, RED FM was acquired by Star Publications (M) BhdThe Star (Malaysia)
The Star is an English-language, tabloid-format newspaper in Malaysia. It is the largest in terms of circulation in Malaysia, according to the . It has a daily circulation of between 290,000 to 300,000...
. The current reincarnation was in 2008, when it dropped the 104.9 in the RED 104.9 FM, to became RED FM only.
Show line-up
- The Red FM Breakfast Show with Rudy & Jeremy (6am-9am Mon-Fri)
- Red FM’s 104 Minute Music Marathon (9am-10.44am daily)
- Eleven 2 Three with Linora(11am-3pm Mon-Fri)
- Red Drive with Terry (3pm-7pm Mon-Fri)
- Red Evenings with Arnold(7pm-10pm Sun-Fri)
- Late Night Love Songs with Mynn(10pm-1am Sun-Fri)
- Fresh Forty Chart with Arnold (3pm-7pm Sat)
- Red fm Weekends(10am-3pm Sat-Sun)
- Red fm Remix with DJ Razz (Sat 11pm-1am)
- Red fm Skool Daze with Terry (Sat 7pm-11pm)
Events
- Love Classifieds - Red FM’s singles event where listeners get to meet new people, mingle with all the Red FM announcers, and perhaps find that special someone while having a great time with games, food and prizes. Past venues include Avilion Port Dickson, Luna Bar @ Pacific Regency Hotel Suites Kuala Lumpur, and Sky Bar @ Traders Hotel Kuala Lumpur.
- Skool Daze Live! - Red FM’s first ever Skool Daze Live party was held on 31 October 2009 at Rain Bistro, Plaza Kelana Jaya. The theme for the night was "School Uniform". After they had their fill of games, lucky draws and dinner, DJ Chinois entertained the crowd with a selection of school days anthems.
Frequencies
- 104.9 FM (Klang Valley & Negeri Sembilan)
- 98.1 FM (Kedah, Perlis, Langkawi)
- 98.1 FM (Taiping)
- 107.6 FM (Penang)
- 106.4 FM (Ipoh, Cameron Highlands & Kelantan: Gua Musang)
- 91.6 FM (Kuantan)
- 98.9 FM (Melaka)
- 92.8 FM (JB & Singapore)
- 91.6 FM (South Terengganu: Kemaman, Dungun)
- 104.9 FM (Tapah)
See also
Other Rediffusion stations:- RediffusionRediffusionRediffusion was a business which distributed radio and TV signals through wired relay networks. The business gave rise to a number of other companies, including Associated-Rediffusion, later known as Rediffusion London, one of the first companies to win a terrestrial ITV franchise in the UK...
- Associated-RediffusionAssociated-RediffusionAssociated-Rediffusion, later Rediffusion, London, was the British ITV contractor for London and parts of the surrounding counties, on weekdays between 1954 and 29 July 1968. Transmissions started on 22 September 1955.-Formation:...
- Rediffusion TelevisionRediffusion TelevisionRediffusion Television was the first television station in Hong Kong, established on May 29, 1957, making it both the first British colony and the first predominantly Chinese city to have television...
(Hong Kong, now known as Asia Television) - Starcom NetworkStarcom NetworkStarcom Network began its life as Radio Distribution Limited, with the introduction of the first broadcast station then located at Wildey, St. Michael in 1935. At that time, the company transmitted its broadcast signal using a cable network system, known as subscription radio...
- formerly Radio Distribution (Barbados) Limited - Rediffusion SingaporeRediffusion SingaporeRediffusion Singapore is a company which originally pioneered cable radio in Singapore, and is currently a digital radio service. The company has touted itself as Singapore's only subscription radio service and the "1st in the WORLD to broadcast on .....