Throughout its history, all the contents were gradually replaced by Chinese content as more of them were added to the channel's broadcasting slot. On 8 January 2004, 8TV was relaunched under the entity of Metropolitan TV Sdn Bhd after the company was brought by Media Prima in 2003 with few Chinese, Malay and English contents in the beginning. Main article: List of programmes broadcast by 8TV (Malaysian TV network) The operator promised to re-start the station in March 2000 after a supposed "signal upgrade" but that did not materialise. Due to the Asian financial crisis and overcrowding from other channels (Astro TV, Mega TV & NTV7), MetroVision shut down on 1 November 1999. īy the end of 1996, MetroVision was sold to a new operator. Metrovision had a Malay news programme named Warta Prima. It was first available only in Klang Valley, Seremban, parts of Pahang and Malacca, but later expanded to Kedah and Johor, also being receivable from Singapore. MetroVision transmitted on UHF channel 27 from Gunung Ulu Kali (near Genting Highlands).
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The first broadcast license granted to MetroVision was only for the Klang Valley (appx.
Other shareholders included Utusan Malaysia, Medan Mas and Diversified Systems. It was managed by City Television Sdn Bhd, part of the Melewar Group, which was controlled by a member of the Negeri Sembilan royal family.
Television station 8TV began official broadcasts on 1 July 1995, then known as MetroVision - Channel 8. (Merged into Tonton Xtra's site, formerly ) Sri Pentas, Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Indonesia ( West Kalimantan, Riau Islands, North Kalimantan and Riau) Thailand ( South Thailand, particularly Songkhla, Narathiwat, Yala and Satun) Not to be confused with Channel 8 (Singapore), a Chinese-language television channel owned by Mediacorp.