Red FM (Malaysia)

Red FM (formerly known as Rediffusion Malaysia) 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.

History

The radio station originates back to 1949 as Rediffusion Malaysia by 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. In December 1997, REDI-FM 98.8 was relaunched as a full-fledged Chinese radio station, ending the monopoly of the government-owned Radio 5 (now Ai FM) as the only Chinese radio station in Malaysia. The frequency of Rediffusion 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) Bhd. 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

• JJ & Lil’ Kev – The Red Breakfast WTF (6am-10am Mon-Fri)
• The Red Rave with Jeremy (10am-2pm Mon-Fri)
• The Really Really Late Breakfast Show with Papi Zak (2pm-5pm Mon-Fri)
• The Red Rush with Adam C (5pm-8pm Mon-Fri)
• The Red Fix with Terry & Azura (8pm-12am Sun-Fri)
• Best of Breakfast (10am-12pm Sat)
• Fresh Forty with Fiqrie (4pm-8pm Sat)
• Red Flava – RnB & Hip-Hop with Nisha (8pm-10pm Sat)
• Red Stage with Pri Pri (10pm-12am Sat)
• Red Beatz with Discfunktion (12am-1am Sun)
• Fireside Chat with Red Bull Music Academy (2pm-3pm Sun)
• Red Sessions – Acoustic Sessions with Pri Pri (3pm-4pm Sun)
• Red FM Skool Days with Pri Pri (4pm-7pm Sun)
• Local Vocal with JFK (7pm-8pm Sun)
• The Red Room with Mynn (9pm-1am Sun)

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, South Perak and West Pahang)
• 98.1 FM (Kedah, Perlis, Langkawi)
• 107.6 FM (Penang, Taiping and North Perak)
• 106.4 FM (Ipoh, Cameron Highlands & Kelantan: Gua Musang)
• 91.6 FM (Kuantan & East Johor)
• 98.9 FM (Tampin, Melaka, North Johor and Southwest Pahang)
• 92.8 FM (South Johor & Singapore)
• 91.6 FM (South Terengganu: Kemaman, Dungun)
• 104.9 FM (Tapah)

Defunct Frequencies

• 98.2 FM (Taiping), inactive since May 2009, then replaced by 107.6FM from Bukit Penara, Penang.
• 106.0 FM (Negeri Sembilan), inactive since June 2009, then replaced by high transmission power frequency from Gunung Ulu Kali, 104.9FM.
• 103.2 FM (Langkawi), inactive since Feb 2001.
• 101.2 FM (Tapah), inactive since July 2000.

See also

Other Rediffusion stations:

• Rediffusion
• Associated-Rediffusion
• Rediffusion Television (Hong Kong, now known as Asia Television)
• Starcom Network - formerly Radio Distribution (Barbados) Limited
• Rediffusion Singapore

External links

• Red FM official website
• Remembering Rediffusion (Malaya) Sdn Bhd
• Red FM malaysia