Ai FM

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Ai FM (爱FM)

Kuala Lumpur
Broadcast area	Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, part of Indonesia and Thailand
Frequency	Varies depending on region
Programming
Language	Chinese (Mandarin (main), Hokkien, Chaoshan Min, Hakka and Cantonese)
Format	Easy listening, Talk, News, Oldies
Ownership
Owner	Radio Televisyen Malaysia
Sister stations	Asyik FM Minnal FM Nasional FM Radio Klasik TraXX FM
History
First air date	17 January 1971; 54 years ago (1971-01-17) (as Green Network) 1 April 2005; 19 years ago (2005-04-01) (as Ai FM)
Links
Webcast	rtmklik.rtm.gov.my/radio/nasional/ai-fm
Website	aifm.rtm.gov.my

Ai FM formerly known as Radio 5 Chinese service (Chinese name: 爱 FM, literally "Love FM") is a oldest Malaysian Mandarin-language radio station for Malaysian Chinese community operated by Radio Televisyen Malaysia was first broadcast on 1 April 1946 as Radio Malaya. It is broadcast 24 hours a day (starting on 28 December 1994), 7 days a week.

The station mostly plays easy listening and Oldies from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s similar and related to Capital 95.8FM in Singapore and Melody in Malaysia as targeting listeners between the age of 50 to now.

The station's name means "love" in Mandarin and carries a universal meaning. The name was chosen through discussions with various parties including leaders of MCA.^[1]

The station started as Radio Malaya operating of George Town, Penang on 1 April 1946.^[2] With the independence of Malaya on 31 August 1957 after its establishment, the radio station Perkhidmatan Bahasa Cina (Chinese Language Service).

On 19 January 1971, Perkhidmatan Bahasa Cina was known as Rangkaian Hijau (Green Network).

On 1 January 1989, Rangkaian Hijau was known as Radio 5.

On 28 December 1994, Radio 5 was started broadcasting 24 hours a day.

Ai FM adopts the easy listening and Oldies radio format with the majority of the playlist consisting of Easy listening and Oldies music from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

On daily nights features Golden Oldies music from the 1950s and 1960s.

Since 1946, the radio station has introduced news time slots in dialects, which has been one of its characteristics for more than 70 years. At that time, news in five dialects was broadcast, including news in Hainan dialect that had stopped broadcasting. Dialect news has been broadcast separately at different times for many years. Since 2005, dialect news has been changed to centralized and integrated broadcasting from 8: 00 to 8: 30 every night. 10 minutes for each news segment.

From 1 April 2017, each segment of dialect news was shortened from 10 minutes to 5 minutes, and it was split and broadcast in sections. Ai FM is the only Chinese radio station broadcasting dialect news in Malaysia at present. The channel that broadcasts dialect news in Singapore is Capital 95.8FM. Ai FM currently broadcasts news in four dialects: Fujian dialect, Chaozhou dialect, Hakka dialect and Cantonese.

At present, each news segment is about 5 minutes, which is scheduled to be broadcast after the Chinese news bulletin every hour in the evening.

• Monday to Sunday (daily): 8:05pm (Fujian dialect), 9:05pm (Chaozhou dialect), 10:05pm (Hakka dialect) and 11:05pm (Cantonese).

Note: During the reporting period of the National Assembly, the news of Chaozhou dialect is broadcast at 9:10pm from Monday to Thursday.

At midnight every day, the station along with all RTM national and regional radio stations, play the national anthem as the opening.

• Official website

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