Towards preserving our heritage

Abstract

The Department of Broadcasting comes under the purview of the Ministry of Information. Within the jurisdiction of this department, there are three libraries with audio visual collections and these are:- i) Television Library, ii) Television News Library, iii) Rakamkhanah P. Ramlee. The department operates two television networks and six radio networks. The airtime for TV1 'Prime Network' is 115.30 total hours per week and the TV2 'Golden Network' is 79 total hours per week. Two out of the six radio networks, provides twenty four hours of broadcast time. The TV Library supports the in-house production and transmission for the two national networks, namely TV1 and TV2. The TV News Library supports all news and current affairs programmes of both TV networks mentioned above. The Rakamkhanah P. Ramlee supports all audio materials for the radio networks and also the TV productions. All these libraries are housed separately whereby each is supervised differently.