Fly FM (Nottingham)

Fly FM is an English-language Malaysian private radio station owned by Media Prima Audio, a radio broadcasting subsidiary of Malaysian media conglomerate, Media Prima. It was launched on 3 October 2005 and targets listeners aged between fifteen and thirty years old. Fly FM is the second most popular English radio station in Malaysia, besides being the fastest growing radio station in the country. The music on Fly FM is aired in both English and Malay.

History

In 2003, upon of its official launch and prior to Fly FM's establishment, Media Prima announced that it has applied for a license to operate a radio station as part of the company's expansion of business operations.

On 29 April 2005, Media Prima acquired Perintis Layar, which owns 75% of Max Airplay, which receives the rights to manage, operate and maintain a radio station.

Fly FM began operations on 3 October 2005 with its official launch took place 6 days later, on 9 October and become the first radio station under Media Prima Radio Networks (later Ripple Media; now Media Prima Audio). It used to broadcast live from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and become the first radio station in the world to be situated in an airport. As of June 2006, Fly FM along with its sister station, Hot FM gained listenership total of 3.4 million, according to a survey by Nielsen Media Research.

In 2007, Fly FM introduced a programme slot called ''50 Minutes of Non-Stop Music'' where songs aired for 50 minutes without commercials.

The station was initially launched by Jason Cottam and the popular deejay, Fly Guy (Saufian Mokhtar). Together with Yvonne Natalie Kniese (Natalie), they hosted they morning show called ''The Pagi Show''. Natalie, who went to was later replaced by Phat Fabes and soon after Fly Guy was replaced by Ben (Loh Ben Jern). Soon after, Nadia was added as the 3rd host of the show.

From 26 June 2011 onwards, Phat Fabes and Ben were moved to the evening slot. The morning show was renamed as ''The Pagi Rock Crew'' (named after LMFAO's hit song Party Rock Anthem) presented by Hafiz and Prem along with original morning crew DJ, Nadia. Nadia left the station on 20 March 2012.

In 2013, Zher and Guibo were introduced and the show renamed as the ''All New Pagi Rock Crew''. After a year, they were moved to the evening slot. The current morning show is called ''Ben & Hafiz'' whilst the night show ''Fly 30'' is managed by Ivan.cIn 2015, Ben's retirement led to the formation of a new morning slot called the ''#FlyWolfPack'' consisting of Hafiz, Dennis and Guibo. In 2017, after Dennis left, the morning show was renamed ''Fly Fm's Hafiz and Guibo''. In August 2017, Zher left Fly FM.

On 30 July 2021, Douglas Lim joins Ili for ''Fly FM's Breakfast Show''. Starting from 2 August 2021, Fly FM was officially rebranded into a hot adult contemporary radio station as part of Media Prima's radio rebranding exercise and at the same time, its URL address, www.flyfm.com.my renamed as www.flyfm.audio.

On March 28, 2022 to September 22, 2023, Fly FM will no longer broadcast temporarily through the MYTV platform.

Radio announcers

Current

* Arieff Yong
* Ryan Howlett
* Natalie Kniese
* Aiman
* Ryan Matjeraie
* DJ Classick
* DJ MyMax
* Izleen Izham (Fifi)
* Adam Raqeem
* Rika Adrina
* Jakeman & Skeletor
* Ramsey Westwood

Former

* Guibo
* Maggy Wang
* Loh Ben Jern
* Dennis Yin
* Saufian Mokhtar
* Hafiz Hatim
* Premo Supremo
* Hunny Madu
* Ili Ruzanna
* Ryan De Alwis
* Balakarthik BK
* Anne Jacyntha
* Ivan Leong
* Zher Peen
* Danielle Chong
* Douglas Lim
* Gabriel Noel Pountney
* Moots!
* Juanita Ramayah
* Aina Sabrina
* Kavin Jay
* Elysha Arnold

Frequency

Radio

Television

Similar radios

* Hard Rock FM in Indonesia

Notes

References

External links

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{{Radio stations of Malaysia, Companies

2005 establishments in Malaysia
Radio stations in Malaysia
Radio stations established in 2005
Media Prima
Hot adult contemporary radio stations
Kuala Lumpur International Airport