TV Pendidikan is a Malaysian educational television network owned, produced and operated by the Educational Technology Division of Malaysia's Ministry of Education. The network aired educational programmes for various school subjects. During its heyday, TV Pendidikan does not air advertisements during programme break times, it is only aired after the end of programmes. Most of adverts aired on the network were primarily from government agencies. The network was previously aired on RTM from 1972 to 1999 and on Astro from 2000 to 2006. During its last years, TV Pendidikan was aired on Malaysia's terrestrial channel, TV9 between 2007 and 2008. In October 2018, the-then Education MinisterMaszlee Malik announced that TV Pendidikan would be relaunched after years of long absence. TV Pendidikan was relaunched on 6 April 2020 after 12 years of absence and began airing on TV Okey, one of Radio Televisyen Malaysia’s channels. The network made its comeback on RTM after two decades since its last broadcasting in 1999. As of 4 May 2020, The network also made its comeback on Astro since its last broadcasting in 2006.
TV Pendidikan was officially launched on 19 June 1972 by the Second Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdul Razak. It was later expanded to Sabah and Sarawak on 30 August 1976. In April 1998, the then Information Minister, Mohamed Rahmat announced the privatization of the network. However, the plan for privatise the network did not materialized as TV Pendidikan is still owned by the Government. From 3 January 2007 until 31 December 2008, TV Pendidikan was aired on Malaysia's terrestrial channel, TV9. Previously, TV Pendidikan was aired through Astro's Channel 28, Channel 13 and Malaysia's terrestrial television station RTM TV1 and RTM TV2 from 1972 to 1999 respectively.
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RTM (1972-1999)
TV Pendidikan was on RTM TV1 from Monday to Thursday in two sessions; i.e. from 7:20 am to 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Daytime transmissions on TV1 and TV3 which was introduced in 1994 has caused it to broadcast only on TV2. Also, the closing time was moved to 3:00 pm.
Astro (2000-2006)
When TV Pendidikan moved to Astro in 2000, Astro channel 28 aired two separate networks. TV Pendidikan aired from Monday to Thursday 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. while Animal Planet occupied the rest of the time. As of January 2012, Animal Planet airs on Astro Channel 556. TV Pendidikan moved to channel 13 in January 2002 where they aired two separate networks, which was TV Pendidikan itself and TechTV, a channel that features news and shows about computer, technology and the Internet. TV Pendidikan broadcast times were not changed, i.e., Monday to Thursday from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm., while TechTV occupied the rest of the time. Since 1 March 2006, all G4techTV programmes were shown on Astro TVIQ. Astro educational channel while channel 13 only shows educational programmes. After some time, G4 programmes were no longer airing on Astro TVIQ. Astro also no longer carries TV Pendidikan on its platform since 1 January 2007. On 4 May 2020, TV Pendidikan has returned to Astro through Astro Tutor TV UPSR and Astro Tutor TV SPM.
TV9 (2007-2008)
TV Pendidikan's broadcasting hour was from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm every Monday to Thursday for every week of the year, except during public holidays. The programme's episodes are changed every two weeks. For a time since 2007, TV Pendidikan placed a permanent logo at the top-left of the screen and aired simultaneously with the TV9 logo at the top-right only during 4 hours of programming. TV Pendidikan ceased broadcasting on 31 December 2008. It was later replaced by .
EduwebTV.com (2009-2019)
EduwebTV is the official webtv of the Ministry of Education, Malaysia which has been introduced since 1 March 2008. It's the first project of its kind in the world! Bridging the digital divide is perhaps the most important factor in ensuring that education reaches every fraction of society. EduwebTV is consist of 4 channels, which are Berita, Rancangan Khas, Kurikulum and Panduan. The ministry embarked on EduwebTV to replace and to improve the delivery of TV Pendidikan, which was broadcast on TV. It is aimed at addressing the limitation of using educational TV where teachers are unable to fit in the school period. Teachers nowadays are able to apply relevant video clippings to reinforce their lessons in the classroom. This can make the learning process are more exciting and up to date with current circumstances instead of make students understand more about the knowledge content as they can see it. EduwebTV also promotes self-learning among students. Students can access the videos and the day's homework from the website by logging on with a password created by the teacher. The students can hand over their homeworks via email or using conventional exercise book.
Programming
The channel covers nine subjects for secondary school:
