Selangor FM (stylised as SELANGOR fm) is a regional

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operated by Radio Televisyen Malaysia out of the

Selangor Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east ...

state station in

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are daily from 06:00 until 00:00 featuring local

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as well as Malay and international

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. It transmits on FM 100.9 MHz from the Gunung Ulu Kali transmitter site and can be heard in Selangor,

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, the northern part of Negeri Sembilan, the southern part of Perak and the western part of

Pahang Pahang (; Jawi: , Pahang Hulu Malay: ''Paha'', Pahang Hilir Malay: ''Pahaeng'', Ulu Tembeling Malay: ''Pahaq)'' officially Pahang Darul Makmur with the Arabic honorific ''Darul Makmur'' (Jawi: , "The Abode of Tranquility") is a sultanate and ...

. It also can be heard using rtmklik application in mobile phone.

Etymology

The station was formerly known as Radio Malaysia Selangor (RMS) and before that as Radio Malaysia Central Area and Radio 3 Shah Alam.

Organisation Information

List of Segments

Controversy

Forced to move out from present location

On 12 April 2008, the new

Menteri Besar In Malaysia, the Menteri Besar ( Jawi:منتري بسر; literally ''First Minister''), colloquially referred to as MB, is the head of government of each of nine states in Malaysia with hereditary rulers. For four states without a monarch, the t ...

of Selangor, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, warned the radio station to come up with a weekly one-hour slot to deliver the information about the programmes held by the State Government, or move out from the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Building which also houses the State Government's administration centre.Selangor MB: Give us a slot or move out
- The Star, 12 April 2008. The radio station was given a one-week deadline to perform the State Government's request. However, the radio station refused to allocate the weekly one-hour slot as requested. As a result, the Information Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek urged the radio station to move out and operate at the

instead, stating that RTM is not afraid of such warning.

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* Radio stations in Malaysia Mass media in Shah Alam Radio Televisyen Malaysia {{Asia-radio-station-stub