Airtime, Marketing and Sales

In line with its mission to be a "Media Supermarket", TAS’ group of companies serve as an exchange where buyers and sellers meet and get the best option for their advertising requirements. Presently, TAS provides full marketing support to broadcasters and media consultation services to potential advertisers via its position as Exclusive Marketing agent for Radio Television Malaysia, namely TV1, TV2 and 27 radio channels.

Content Development, Production and Distribution

TAS is positioned to be an outfit that has a niche in the "Intelligent Non-Fiction" content development and production for Malaysian broadcasters with a goal to promoting the intellectual development of Malaysia’s future generations.

Equipped with high technology production and post production facilities, TAS’ studio is capable of producing a multitude of children’s television programmes that caters for children between the ages of 5 – 15 and those which appeals to teenagers.

Past TV productions developed by TAS are Golden Kids News, Planet Ria, Golden Teen Stuff and Rice Mice, The Golden Kids Club, E-Remaja, Interesteen, Thinkingroom and Zoolantara. Malaysian Inventions & Innovation is currently on air at TV2 every Fridays at 11:30 am.

Electronic News Gathering and Programme Production

The Broadcast News Division of TAS is a nucleus for electronic news gathering designed to depict the true face of Malaysia. It provides services such as production and news gathering, rental of facilities and equipment to Bernama-TV, the audio-visual arm of the National News Agency (BERNAMA). TAS was also the news producer and supplier of MetroVision News in 1997.

Equipment and Facilities Rental

TAS offers equipment and rental of its facilities since it is equipped with a RM 3 million state-of-the-art facilities suitable for pre-production, production and post-production of news, television and radio commercial production. It has a full range of broadcasting and production equipment which include a central apparatus room, a fully acoustic sound studio, multi-cameras and lighting connected to a master control room, a linear and non-linear editing facilities complete with graphics and animation room for visual and video effects. The production studio is also capable of producing "live" programmes.

Sports Production Division

The division is designed to cater the need of Sports Broadcasting in Malaysia and around the world. Currently they are responsible in producing the Formula One programme in RTM for the whole season.

Besides Formula One, the division is also producing the Malaysian Super Series 2003 for RTM.

Interactive Television

With a keen eye on the future of broadcasting, TAS is committed to providing Malaysian viewers with interactive television services. The interactive television concept is about merging broadcast television with the web. The goal is to create a new communication channel that would enable one to combine the "talk-back" ability of the internet with the one-way "multi-casting" power of the television.

TAS will use the strengths of each medium to overcome the weaknesses of the other. The service will be free to users supported by a mix of advertising and commerce revenue vide the use of SMS service available today. Parties involved in the interactive television are the Internet Service Providers (ISP), telecommunication companies (Telcos) and broadcasting stations.

TV Station Management

The TAS Group of companies was chosen to manage the City Television Sdn. Bhd. which operated the MetroVision television station. The MetroVision channel was Malaysia’s fourth free to air television station and the first regional TV broadcaster to air exclusive to viewers in the Klang Valley. Since taking over the management in 1996, TAS has gained valuable experience and capabilities in operating a TV station catering to an urban audience. It has successfully transformed MetroVision into a lean and efficient broadcaster with a keen eye for niche programming to an urban audience.

A corporate restructuring for MetroVision and is currently underway, working closely with a media group to re-launch MetroVision as Channel 8.