8TV (Malaysia)

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**8TV**

Type	Private broadcast Terrestrial television
Country	Malaysia
Availability	National
Slogan	We're different (Chinese : fill in)
Owner	Media Prima Berhad
Launch date	2004
Past names	MetroVision Channel 8
Website	www.8tv.com.my

8TV (Simplified Chinese: 八度空间; Pinyin: Bā Dù Kōng Jiān) is a private Malaysian television station previously known as Metrovision. Metrovision had ceased transmission in 2000, but resumed broadcasting on January 8, 2004 as 8TV after being bought by Media Prima Sdn Bhd.

8TV is the sister channel of TV3. It currently shares facilities with TV3 at its headquarters, Sri Pentas, Bandar Utama.

8TV targets the younger block of viewers with a "one station, two channels" concept whereby the first session of the broadcasts are the Chinese channel, while the second session of the broadcasts is mostly English-language programmes. A third part of the broadcast features interactive SMS games, with some music videos in English, Malay and Chinese.

It has a popular slogan, "We're different," and has attempted to show this by offering a large variety of popular series and movies that focuses on youth, urban and Chinese as the targeted audiences.

8TV, together with TV3 and local English daily the New Straits Times and Malay daily Berita Harian form the largest media group in Malaysia, collectively known as Media Prima. It is currently headed by Ahmad Izham Omar. Its Director of Network Operations is Paul Moss, a recording executive who is also a judge on Malaysian Idol.

There is a new tour happening, called the 8TV Mall Tour, which goes to most of the major shopping malls in Malaysia.

8TV currently broadcasts under UHF (Ultra High) Frequency. In the Klang Valley, the UHF channel is 25.

8TV is also available over Astro on Channel 18 and MiTV on Channel 8.

Daily broadcast is 7:30am till 3:00am the next day.