<P> In Malaysia, a government department monitors television advertisements rather than a private institution . Almost all television stations and channels in the country, whether government - owned, private or pay television channels, broadcast advertisements, with television channel logos removed before the start of the commercial break . </P> <P> There are usually two commercial breaks in a half - hour programme and three commercial breaks in an hour - long programme, with the exception of news programmes . Terrestrial television can only broadcast advertisements during the programme that was currently aired except before announcing the breaking of fast in the month of Ramadan, although advertisements may be included during CJ Wow Shop on Media Prima television channels such as NTV7 and TV9 as of June 2016 . </P> <P> Because Malaysian television advertisements were controlled by the government department, the Malaysian TV advertising permit number appears during the first few seconds of any advertisement . The abbreviation at the first part of the permit number which refers to the ministry which handles the TV advertising permit number always changes sometime after the Malaysian government made a new portfolio of ministers and name changes to some ministries after the general election . The usage of advertising code began in 1995, with KP / YYYY / XXXX of which KP means Ministry of Information, YYYY is the year the advertisement produced and the XXXX is the number of the advert permit . This was replaced by KPKK (Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture) and KKMM (Ministry of Communications and Multimedia of Malaysia) in 2009 and 2013, respectively . The usage of advertising code has declined in recent years, although it remains in use in almost all advertisements shown on RTM . Other advertising permits includes the KKLIU (Ministry of Health, the Medicine Advertising Authority) for medicinal advertisements, which was used before 1995 and the JIRP (Pesticide Advertising Department) for pesticide advertisements . All pesticide advertisements must show the word "INI IKLAN MAKHLUK RACUN PEROSAK" (This is a pesticide advertisement, previously INI ADALAH IKLAN RACUN PEROSAK) and JIRP advertising code at the beginning of the advertisement and the words "BACA LABEL SEBELUM GUNA" (Read the label before use, previously BACALAH LABEL KELUARAN SEBELUM MENGGUNAKANNYA) at the end of the advertisement . It was also used in advertisements on newspapers and magazines . </P> <P> Astro is also known to delay incoming satellite feeds by two to five minutes (some channels delay by one hour) from the actual time of the start and the end of programme (for example a programme aired at 13: 30h will be started at 13: 33h) with broadcasting advertisements during in - between programmes for its purpose of commercial replacement, as government laws forbid advertisements produced from overseas, with exceptions such as film trailers (since release dates may include more than one country). </P>

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