Awesome TV
Awesome TV is a free-to-air Malaysian television channel owned by Awesome Media Network Sdn. Bhd. The channel features first-run local original production and foreign content. Awesome TV started its trial broadcast on 28 July 2020 and full operation started on 3 August 2020. Awesome TV can be watched for free nationwide via myFreeview platform on Channel 112 and Astro on Channel 123. History. In August 2017, AC Mizal and Afdlin Shauki announced that they will launch a new TV station which originally known as Syiok TV, a joint venture between Syiok Media Network owned by  AC Mizal and VisionWorks owned by Afdlin Shauki. Syiok TV renamed as Awesome TV in August 2019. AC Mizal announced in February 2020 that he was no longer a part of Awesome TV. Awesome TV does not have any major news time slots either through itself or from other broadcast television channels from August 3, 2020 to January 31, 2022. Starting February 1, 2022, Awesome TV broadcasts its own news, Berita 7:57, the same as Awani 7:45 on Astro Awani and Buletin Utama on TV3. The prime time news program was broadcast live from 33, Jalan Rakyat, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala  Lumpur. Overview. Awesome TV is the first free television channel in Malaysia and Kuala Lumpur to officially start broadcasting without the use of analog transmitters, which all users of DVB-T2 decoders in Malaysia can watch this channel from the beginning of the channel's existence. Starting April 1, 2020, the Astro Ria HD channel number has been replaced with channel 104 and Awesome TV will start broadcasting on Astro channel 123 starting January 18, 2021.