Hitz (radio station)

hitz.fm

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Broadcast area	Malaysia
Frequency	Varies depending on its region
Programming
Format	Contemporary hit radio
Ownership
Owner	Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd, under AMP Radio Networks
History
First air date	January 1997
Links
Webcast	eAAC
Website	www.hitz.fm

hitz.fm is a Malaysian national radio station managed by AMP Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd. hitz.fm is Malaysia's leading English-language station with 1.9 million listeners.

Programming

The current lineup of hitz.fm includes:

Weekdays

6-10am: JJ Fernandez and Tengku Mohd Ean Nasrun (hitz.fm Morning Crew)

10am-1pm: Adam Carruthers (hitz.fm 10am-1pm : Hitz Top Ten @ 10 & Hitz 10 In A Row)

1pm-4pm: Adam Carruthers and Natalie Kniese (hitz.fm Top 40)

4-8pm: Natalie Kniese (hitz.fm Drive Thru)

8pm-12mn: Jin and Ryan (hitz Party)

Weekends

Sat & Sun : Free hitz Weekend

Sat, 4-6pm : 'Football Fanatics'

Sat, 11am-3pm & Sun 5pm-9pm : 'Weekend Banter'

Sat, 6-10pm; Sun, 12-4pm: Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 (telecast feed from US)

Sat, 10pm-12mn & Sun, 9-11pm: Club hitz, mixed by the Jakeman and Skeletor

Sun, 10am-12 noon, repeats Monday, 1am-3am: Jin host the hitz 20 Charts hitz 20(formerly hitz.fm Hot 20)

Sun, 4pm-5pm : Malaysian English Top 10, hosted by Jakeman (also the station's Programming General Manager), and Moots!

Miscellaneous

The street team for hitz.fm are the hitz.fm Cruisers (Cruisers in short). Their duty is to meet fans of the station and give away free gifts courtesy of hitz.fm.

hitz.fm has a sister station which is a music TV channel called Astro hitz, formerly known as Astro Hitz.TV on Astro.

Every weekday in the morning, the Morning Crew would play a Got'Cha call. This prank involves the Morning Crew calling up Malaysians and pranking them on the request of the victim's family, friends or colleagues.

More recently, the Morning Crew has introduced a new machine, patented the Lie Detector Test which involves the user being strapped onto the seat and asked Yes or No questions. The test would either show true, false, or unreadable. Malaysians can request to try out the Lie Detector Test and would have to swing by the headquarters to do so.

History

HITZ FM was launched into Malaysian FM airwaves in January 1997 after being one of Astro's audio-only channels since the launch of the satellite network in October the year before.

In 2000, the Malaysian Top 10 (later renamed Malaysian English Top 10) was introduced, airing every Sundays at 4pm to bring the limelight into local Malaysian music which would suit the tastes of hitz.fm's listeners, especially indie acts.

In April 2001, HITZ FM was rebranded as hitz.fm (with a dot) as an emphasis of its significant Internet presence for its listeners rather than just being a radio station, providing online facilities like webcasts of their announcers in action as well as radio streaming.

In August 2003, a rift between Li'l Kev and the management of AMP over the contract between them caused him and FlyGuy to leave hitz.fm abruptly. Jason Lo and Rudy Sufian were called up to fill in their places and eventually became the new Morning Crew. (Later, Lo switched time slots with JJ Fernandez for the drive-home slot). Later in the same year, HITZ.TV was launched as a complement to the radio channel.

In 2005, the hitz.fm Malaysian English Top 10 Awards was introduced to honour the best of Malaysian English-singing musical talent and compositions. Two such events have held thus far.

In 2008,Rudy announced his decision to give up his morning show.Rudy confessed to having problems getting up in the mornings and needed to change his work pattern.With the new schedule(The new hitz.fm morning crew), JJ now has a new co-partner Tengku Mohd Ean Nasrun, better known as Ean.

In September 2010,Airtime Management and Programming (AMP) is launching three of its radio channels in East Malaysia. ERA, MY FM & hitz.fm will run from the hearts of Kuching beginning 25 October 2010 and Kota Kinabalu beginning 1 December 2010.

Former announcers

The following are the names of hitz.fm's ex-announcers and their years of duty in the station.

• Li'l Kev (1997–2003)
• FlyGuy (1997–2003)
• Anushia Kanagasabai (1997–2002)
• John Boy (1997–1999, 2001)
• Farouk Khan (1997)
• Ross Yusof (1997–2004)
• Mesh Nair (1997–2004)
• Phat Fabes (1999–2006)
• Serena Choong (2000—2006)
• Sheleena "Shel" Kaur (2000—2006)
• Johan Farid Khairuddin (2001—2004)
• Pietro Ambrose Felix (2005—2006)
• Marion Caunter (2006—2007)
• Brian Vinesh (2005—2007)
• Azura Zainal (2006–2007)
• Jason Lo (2003–2007)
• Hunny Madu (2007–2008)
• Jayaram Gopinath Nagaraj (2003–2008)
• Rudy Sufian (2003–2009)

Frequencies

Klang Valley 92.9 MHz

Seremban 95.0 MHz

Malacca 93.0 MHz

Johor Bahru Singapore 97.6 MHz

Ipoh 92.7 MHz

Alor Setar Penang 92.8 MHz

Taiping 93.6 MHz

Langkawi 92.4 MHz

Kota Bharu 92.8 MHz

Kuala Terengganu 94.8 MHz

Kuantan 93.2 MHz

Kuching 95.3 MHz

Miri 105.8 MHz

Kota Kinabalu 100.8 MHz

hitz.fm is also available through audio streaming on hitz.fm's website and on ASTRO Channel 852.

External links

• hitz.fm website
• hitz.fm Cruiser page
• Charts hitz 20
• AMP Radio website
• Hitz FM Malaysia Online