{"id":7926,"date":"2021-01-22T21:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7926"},"modified":"2021-01-22T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T13:53:08","slug":"rtm-to-set-up-special-education-tv-channel-saifuddin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7926","title":{"rendered":"RTM to set up special education TV channel &#8211; Saifuddin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 &#8212; Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) is prepared to provide a special television education channel to help the home learning process during and post-COVID-19, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said RTM had&nbsp;the experience of having its own educational television service, \u2018TV Pendidikan\u2019 from 1972 to 2008 and the ministry is expecting this new&nbsp;channel to be ready by the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring (the implementation) of the first Movement Control Order, we\u00a0held home classes in two sessions which were two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon using (RTM\u2019s) TV Okey channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-1024x559.jpg\" alt=\"RTM\" class=\"wp-image-7927\" width=\"518\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-183x100.jpg 183w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-350x191.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-800x436.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Actually, RTM is now ready and has conducted tests on&nbsp;the channel. It is too early to give it&nbsp;a name but the preparations are for education&nbsp;TV,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saifuddin told&nbsp;reporters this after a virtual media conference in conjunction with the closing of the First ASEAN Digital Ministers\u2019&nbsp;Meeting (ADGMIN1) here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saifuddin said his ministry would play the role of providing the platform while&nbsp;content would be provided by the Education Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1924843\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 &#8212; Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) is prepared to provide a special&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4.jpg",1087,593,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-300x164.jpg",300,164,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-768x419.jpg",640,349,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4-1024x559.jpg",640,349,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4.jpg",1087,593,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4.jpg",1087,593,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4.jpg",1087,593,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4.jpg",1024,559,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dba73e0e3dcce4ab7d61b4ec8a2a204b600acc72b00f4.jpg",720,393,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions\/7928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}