TVS Live Streaming – Watch TV Sarawak Online Free
Sarawak is larger than the whole of Peninsular Malaysia. It holds hundreds of thousands of people living along rivers rather than roads, dozens of ethnic communities, and a political history distinct from the rest of the country.
For most of Malaysian broadcasting history, it had no television channel of its own. TVS is the answer to that. The live feed sits above, free to watch.
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LIVE45TFAbout the Channel
- Name
- TVS
- Formerly
- TV Sarawak
- Owner
- Sarawak Media Group
- Backed by
- Sarawak state government
- Began as streaming
- 2014
- Launched as a channel
- 2020
- myFreeview channel
- 122
- Astro
- 122
- Picture
- HD
- Headquarters
- Kuching, Sarawak
The Complaint That Started It
TVS exists because of a specific and publicly stated frustration.
Sarawak’s state leadership argued that Kuala Lumpur-based broadcasters treated state affairs with indifference. National bulletins covered Sarawak when something dramatic happened – a flood, a disaster, an election – and largely ignored it otherwise. Routine state governance, local development, community issues and cultural life rarely travelled across the South China Sea.
The state’s response was to build its own outlet rather than lobby for better coverage from someone else’s.
That reasoning shapes the editorial line. Sarawak is the main story here, not a regional segment inside a national one.
Super-Local, Broadcast Nationally
The strategy behind TVS is more interesting than “a state channel” suggests.
Rather than making general content that happens to come from Kuching, the channel deliberately makes highly local material – community issues, district-level stories, Sarawakian culture – and then pushes it to a national audience. The station’s own leadership has described the approach as making super-local content designed to be relatable well beyond the state.
It is a bet that specificity travels better than generality. A documentary about a particular longhouse community can interest a viewer in Johor precisely because it is unfamiliar. A generic lifestyle programme cannot.
Practically, this produces
District-level reporting that no national newsroom would staff
Cultural programming rooted in specific communities rather than broad themes
Local-language content alongside Malay and English output
Statewide event coverage, including festivals and river events that define the Sarawak calendar
Earning a Channel Number
TVS did not begin with broadcast carriage. It had to build its way there.
The operation started in 2014 as an online service, publishing to the internet without a terrestrial licence. That version ran for years, establishing an audience and proving the content could work.
The full channel launched in 2020, with satellite carriage arriving at the same time. Terrestrial distribution followed within months, putting TVS on the national free-to-air platform and making it reachable in Peninsular Malaysia as well as Borneo.
Six years from streaming experiment to national channel number is quick by Malaysian standards. It also matters more than it sounds: a channel number means households find it while browsing, rather than only when they go looking.
Hourly News and Everything Around It
The schedule is built around a news commitment most channels do not make.
TVS runs bulletins at the top of every hour, which is an unusual cadence for a station of its size. Between them sits a general-entertainment schedule: drama, documentaries, telemovies and talk programming, much of it produced locally.
The channel’s live coverage has drawn particular attention during flood seasons and community emergencies, when local reporting matters most and national outlets are furthest from the ground.
Its work has been recognised beyond Malaysia too. TVS took an Asia Pacific Broadcasting Award in the government streaming category for its coverage of the Sarawak Regatta – the river race that is among the state’s best-known events.
Covering a State the Size of a Country
Sarawak’s geography makes broadcasting here genuinely difficult, and that is part of what the channel is for.
- Large parts of the state are reached by river rather than road.
- Longhouse communities sit hours from the nearest town.
- Road networks are thin across the interior, and the population is spread across an area bigger than many countries.
- Stories are expensive to reach, which is precisely why distant broadcasters skip them
- Flood coverage is a recurring obligation, not an occasional story
- Remote communities appear on screen in a way national television rarely manages
- Local knowledge matters – a Kuching-based reporter knows which district is which
A national broadcaster covering Sarawak from Kuala Lumpur faces a flight before it faces a story. A Kuching-based one does not.
A Flag in the Logo
A small detail that says something about the channel’s positioning.
TVS redesigned its logo around the colours of the Sarawak flag.
For a station whose entire premise is that the state deserves its own voice, putting the state flag into the brand mark is not decoration. It is the argument, compressed.
Questions Viewers Ask
What channel is TVS on myFreeview?
Channel 122. It carries the same number on Astro.
Who owns TVS?
Sarawak Media Group, backed by the Sarawak state government.
What was TVS called before?
TV Sarawak, under which name it operated as an online service before becoming a full channel.
Is it free?
Yes, on terrestrial broadcast.
Can I watch TVS in Peninsular Malaysia?
Yes. Despite its state focus, TVS is carried nationally.
Where does it broadcast from?
Kuching, Sarawak.
When did it launch?
It began as an online service in 2014 and became a full television channel in 2020.
Does it only cover news?
No. Alongside hourly bulletins it carries drama, documentaries, telemovies and talk programming.
What languages does it use?
Malay and English, with local Sarawakian languages in parts of the schedule.
Why does Sarawak have its own channel?
The state government held that Kuala Lumpur-based broadcasters gave state affairs too little attention, and built its own outlet in response.