31 Aug 2010

Astro Lancar Radio Bayu

Bermula 30 Ogos, Astro telah melakar sejarah dengan melancar saluran radio yang didedikasi khusus untuk pendengar-pendengar di Sabah. Saluran radio tersebut diberi nama Radio Bayu dan boleh diikuti di saluran Astro 869. Sebuah lagi saluran radio, Radio Kenyalang, khusus untuk pendengar Sarawak boleh diikuti melalui saluran Astro 870. Diharapkan selepas ini ada saluran khas TV pula...TV Bayukah :=).

Having checked the new channel yesterday. I guess there are some pros and cons. On the plus points we are served with non-stop songs of local Sabahan artistes. These include songs that are not suppose to be aired over RTM radio stations, such as "nah tusin pomoli do linutau" (hehe). Most of the songs played so far are from Skyline collection. No surprise as they are considered the biggest distributor and to the west Malaysian (as this case Astro) it's the only label emerge from Sabah. Now everytime a TV program is interrupted for commercial break I just switch over to this channel to check out what song is being played :=).

On the minus points, the channel is not terrestrial (maybe not as yet). It means limited access, less mobile and can only be listened through Astro satelite service (anywhere in Malaysia of course so long that you subscribe to the service). So far I hear nothing but non-stop pre-programmed music without any information. The announcer only appears briefly (5 secs) once like every 3,4 hours. Are we expecting to hear more local infos...like traffic report, news etc? I'm keeping my fingers cross...cos a radio station without intelligent info (not even basic info..like the name of the song, singer, the composer, which album the song taken from, etc) is like a PC without printer (read: useless!)

12 comments:

GuRaNgAk said...

Whoah, i didnt know this. Thanks for the info. Mau check la lepas ni..manatau ada lagu 'Langgar pan@#% karabau' hahaha.

Btw, check this out:
http://www.rtmsabah.gov.my/tonton_kgau.html
Keningau FM finally goes online yay!! Terubat juga rindu urang di kejauhan cam siurang ni haha. Full of local info from time to time. The best part, siap ada Live Streaming dari konti lagi tu..Kamikaze! Haha..

dBOS-fm said...

I see...ada pula live konti Kngau FM. Cuma broadcast dia ada lapse/ delay dlm 4, 5 minit banding dengan yg audio ja (pigi ja http://www.rtmsabah.gov.my n klik yg sebelah bottom right on d screen). Keningau FM memang growing listeners dia..baru2keluar hasil kajian..mo mencecah stengah juta pendengar durang. RTM radio is till the best when it comes to info...semua sudah online pula tu.

Frankly kalau lagu2 Dusun nikan sya prefer announcer dia guna bahasa Dusun :)

Anonymous said...

ini adalah channel hiburan/music itulah pasal. Tentang info ada RTM Sabah boleh diikuti dalam berbagai bahasa...penggunaan bahasa malaysia cara Sabah adalah amat memedai kerana lagu lagu yang diputarkan merangkumi lagu semua ethnik Sabah mahupun lagu melayu yang dinyanyikan oleh artis artis Sabah sendiri, dengan itu pendengarnya juga terdiri dari segala lapisan kaum di Sabah.

Anonymous said...

dBOS..macam mana nak dapatkan album Felix AF3 "Aku Juga Iya"...sebab tiada jual di kedai2 CD..
Mungkin ada idea?

Apain Soriun

dBOS-fm said...

Cuba ke blog d'sulap sebab durang yang produce album dia. Mungkin boleh email n tanya durang.

http://dsulapentertainment.blogspot.com/

Anonymous said...

ada working link utk dangar Bayu FM d intirnit ka? suma link sa p klik suma nda working ni... minta tulung banyak2 ar....

dBOS-fm said...

Huh?...setau sya bayu fm cuma melalui astro/satelite. Setakat ni sya teda dengar boleh ikuti d internet.

Rukia kuchiki said...

ya, itu la yg sia tau jg, harap2 radio bayu buli d dengar d internet..

Rukia kuchiki said...

ya, sia pn dgr mcm tu jg, tp klu radio bayu buli dgr d internet kn bagus... ^_^

Rukia kuchiki said...

ya, sia pn rasa gi2, tp klu buli dgr d internet kn bagus... ^_^

Anonymous said...

perlu contact numbr bayu fm. bh ni..

dBOS-fm said...

Cuba tanya di Facebook durang atau hantar email ke
radiobayu@o-borneo.com (sya pun heran kenapa durang tdk tayang ontact no. durang di FB)