Hitz.fm

Hitz.FM

Broadcast area	Malaysia
Slogan	Invading You With The Biggest Hitz
Frequency	Varies depending on its region
First air date	January 1997
Format	Contemporary hit radio
Owner	Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd, under Astro Radio
Webcast	eAAC+
Website	www.hitz.fm

hitz.fm is a Malaysian national radio station managed by Astro Radio, a subsidiary of Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd. hitz.fm is Malaysia's leading English-language station^[1] with 1.9 million listeners.^[2]

As of January 2014, the radio station has reverted its name to HITZ FM.

Programming

The current lineup of hitz.fm includes the following below:

Weekdays

Hitz Sarawak

Hitz Sabah

Weekends

Saturday

Hitz Sarawak

Hitz Sabah

Sunday

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.

• Lil' Kev (1997–2003)
• FlyGuy (1997–2003)
• Kudsia Kahar
• Anushia Kanagasabai (1997–2002)
• John Boy (1997–1999, 2001)
• Diana
• Farouk Khan (1997)
• Ross Yusof (1997–2004)
• Mesh Nair (1997–2004)
• Fabian Jesse James (1999–2006)
• Serena Choong (2000—2006)
• Priscilla Patrick
• 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)
• Samir Sharman (2007–2008)
• Jayaram Gopinath Nagaraj (2003–2008)
• Rudy Sufian (2003–2009)
• Adam Carruthers

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
• Sandakan 99.8 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
• Astro Radio website

References