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Astro Awani is a news channel, founded by and currently broadcast through streaming service and pay TV provider owned by Astro Awani Network Sdn. Bhd. and operated by Astro. It broadcasts an array of programmes including bulletins, business & current affairs shows, special interviews, investigative reports, variety programmes, as well as selected magazine shows.
Its flagship programmes include Awani 7:45, its primetime news programme; Agenda Awani, which discusses current affairs; and Buletin Awani, which provides rolling news bulletins on an hourly basis.
The Astro Awani brand was first launched on 15 June 2006 in Indonesia originally as a infotainment and lifestyle channel part of the main line-up for Astro's Indonesian operations or Astro Nusantara, a joint venture between Astro and India-based NDTV. However, due to continued differences between the JV partners, the Indonesian version went off-air in October 2008. Meanwhile on 6 September 2007, Awani launched in Malaysia in a press conference at the Palace of the Golden Horses hotel, Seri Kembangan.
On 26 February 2008, the channel was renumbered to channel 501, and has kept this designation ever since.
Unlike Berita RTM and Bernama TV, which airs news in Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil, Astro Awani only airs news in both Malay and English.
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