TV3 officially began broadcasting on 1 June 1984 at 18:00 local time, launched by then Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad and broadcasts from Kuala Lumpur. This broadcast area was only limited to Klang Valley area during its early years.
On 28 July 1987, TV3 became the first commercial channel in collaboration with RTM bringing Malaysians the live coverage of the Jakarta Southeast Asian Games. The same thing was also done in 1997 (failed, now RTM TV1) and 2011 (passed, all matches now RTM TV1).
On 28 July 1984, TV3 became the first commercial channel in collaboration with RTM bringing Malaysians the live coverage of the Los Angeles Olympics. The same thing was also done in 1988 and 1992.
On 1 January 1985, TV3 launched its first teletext service known as Beriteks. In 1996 the service's name was changed to Infonet. It was shut down on 1 January 2008.
On 1 January 1987, TV3 television audio stereo transmissions began in the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It was the first channel in Malaysia to adopt stereo broadcasting. It transmits using the Zweikanalton stereo transmission system over TV3's UHF broadcast in the Klang Valley. Later in the 1990s, the stereo transmission was introduced into their VHF broadcast. TV3 was also experimenting with bilingual transmission over Zweikanalton for a short period of time in the 1990s.
It had adopting 24-hour for many times, first at 1990's, later mid 2000's at Thursday to Sunday and 24-hours in sometime at 2006-2007, before TV3 swap its broadcasts at normally 05.00-01.30 at mid 2008 until 31 December 2009, and finally adopting 24-hour broadcasting after 1 January 2010.
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