Ai FM

Ai FM formerly known as Radio 5 Chinese service (Chinese name: 爱 FM, literally "Love FM") is a oldest Malaysian Mandarin-language radio station for Malaysian Chinese community operated by Radio Televisyen Malaysia was first broadcast on 1 April 1946 as Radio Malaya. It is broadcast 24 hours a day (starting on 28 December 1994), 7 days a week.

Ai FM (爱FM)

Kuala Lumpur
Broadcast area	Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, part of Indonesia and Thailand
Frequency	Varies depending on region
Programming
Language(s)	Chinese (Mandarin (main), Hokkien, Chaoshan Min, Hakka and Cantonese)
Format	Easy listening, Talk, News, Oldies
Ownership
Owner	Radio Televisyen Malaysia
Sister stations	Asyik FM Minnal FM Nasional FM Radio Klasik TraXX FM
History
First air date	17 January 1971 (1971-01-17) (as Green Network) 1 April 2005 (2005-04-01) (as Ai FM)
Links
Webcast	rtmklik.rtm.gov.my/radio/nasional/ai-fm
Website	aifm.rtm.gov.my

The station mostly plays easy listening and Oldies from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s similar and related to Capital 95.8FM in Singapore and Melody in Malaysia as targeting listeners between the age of 50 to now.

Etymology

The station was formerly known as Ai FM and before that as Radio 5.

History

The station started as Radio Malaya operating of George Town, Penang on 1 April 1946. With the independence of Malaya on 31 August 1957 after its establishment, the radio station Perkhidmatan Bahasa Cina (Chinese Language Service).

On 19 January 1971, Perkhidmatan Bahasa Cina was known as Rangkaian Hijau (Green Network).

On 1 January 1989, Rangkaian Hijau was known as Radio 5.

On 28 December 1994, Radio 5 was started broadcasting 24 hours a day.

Ai FM adopts the easy listening and Oldies radio format with the majority of the playlist consisting of Easy listening and Oldies music from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

On daily nights features Golden Oldies music from the 1950s and 1960s.

Dialect News History

Since 1946, the radio station has introduced news time slots in dialects, which has been one of its characteristics for more than 70 years. At that time, news in five dialects was broadcast, including news in Hainan dialect that had stopped broadcasting. Dialect news has been broadcast separately at different times for many years. Since 2005, dialect news has been changed to centralized and integrated broadcasting from 8: 00 to 8: 30 every night. 10 minutes for each news segment.

Dialect news period

From 1 April 2017, each segment of dialect news was shortened from 10 minutes to 5 minutes, and it was split and broadcast in sections. Ai FM is the only Chinese radio station broadcasting dialect news in Malaysia at present. The channel that broadcasts dialect news in Singapore is Capital 95.8FM. Ai FM currently broadcasts news in four dialects: Fujian dialect, Chaozhou dialect, Hakka dialect and Cantonese.

At present, each news segment is about 5 minutes, which is scheduled to be broadcast after the Chinese news bulletin every hour in the evening.

• Monday to Sunday (daily): 8:05pm (Fujian dialect), 9:05pm (Chaozhou dialect), 10:05pm (Hakka dialect) and 11:05pm (Cantonese).

Note: During the reporting period of the National Assembly, the news of Chaozhou dialect is broadcast at 9:10pm from Monday to Thursday.

National Anthem

At midnight every day, the station along with all RTM national and regional radio stations, play the national anthem as the opening.

Frequency

Radio

Frequencies	Broadcast area	Transmitter site
89.3 MHz	Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur Tower
106.7 MHz	Shah Alam, Selangor	Gunung Ulu Kali
101.3 MHz	Perlis Alor Setar, Kedah & Penang	Mount Jerai
106.1 MHz	Taiping, Perak	Bukit Larut
	Kuantan, Pahang	Bukit Perlindung
92.1 MHz	Ipoh, Perak	Gunung Kledang
89.7 MHz	Seremban, Negeri Sembilan	Gunung Telapak Buruk
100.4 MHz	Malacca & North Johor	Mount Ophir
104.9 MHz	Johor Bahru, Johor & Singapore	Mount Pulai
	Batam, Bintan, Riau, Indonesia
90.5 MHz	Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu	Bukit Besar
105.7 MHz	Kota Bharu, Kelantan	Telipot
90.7 MHz	Kuching, Sarawak	Gunung Serapi
89.9 MHz	Miri, Sarawak	Bukit Lambir
103.3 MHz	Brunei	Bukit Mas
92.3 MHz	Labuan	Bukit Timbalai
91.9 MHz	Kota Kinabalu, Sabah	Bukit Lawa Mandau
95.1 MHz	Sandakan, Sabah	Bukit Trig

Television

TV Platform	Channel
Astro/NJOI	874
myFreeview	704

External links

• Official website