Dear The Real Singapore,
I just want to share my feeling and dont know where to channel it, hopefully you guys will publish my opinion piece.
I am very disappointed with the service of SingTel Mio service for the Malay tv programme Astro channel 602 and 608. These channel viewed by mostly Malay subscribers as Astro is a Malaysia satellite TV with a large majority of Malay viewers but the content they showed are dramas or movies in Tagalog, Korean and even Mandarin.
Malay use to be a significant population in Singapore but now we seems to be a dying race with the large influx of foreigners here. Even Singaporeans represent only 50% of the demographics in Singapore. Tagalog is not a Malay language and I feel very sad that we are not being represented well in Singapore.
I have no issue if they screen other languages movie once in awhile but the serial dramas from other languages are taking too much airtime and not fair to the Malay subscribers.There are many dramas or movie from Malaysia and why cant they slot into the two channels? I feel SingaTel just not fair. I subscribed the Astro Channel 602 and 608 to specifically watch Malay channels since my family prefers watching that but even after subscribing with Singtel Mio service, I am unable to watch the Channels that I like.
Thank you for taking your time to read this and best regards. Is there any other Malay subscribers feeling the same way?
Nik Ahmad
TRS reader