Astro TVIQ is an Astro branded channel brought exclusively for Malaysians and Indonesians who own Astro. This channel is free as it is grouped under the Astro Family package. The viewership target is for children between the age of 4 and 15.

Programmes on this network are all based on education, exploration, arts, science, learning English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, motivation and mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

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The programmes that are shown on this channel are taken from a few of the popular international television stations such as from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Okto, and programmes from the United States

United States

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 and Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Astro TVIQ also broadcasts some in-house programmes.

Since January 2010, it broadcasts selected foreign programmes dubbed in Bahasa Malaysia and later added Chinese in February 2009.

For sometime in March 2006, G4

G4 (TV channel)

G4, also known as G4 TV, is an American cable- and satellite-television channel originally geared primarily toward young adult viewers, originally based on the world of video games...

 programmes were moved to this channel from TV Pendidikan

TV Pendidikan

TV Pendidikan was an education television channel which formerly airs on Malaysia's terrestrial channel, TV9. TV Pendidikan is fully owned and produced by the Educational Technology Division, the Ministry of Education of Malaysia and it shows various programmes for various school subjects...

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Astro TVIQ is available on Astro's channel 610. In Indonesia

Indonesia

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, it was formerly available on channel 20 via Astro Nusantara

Astro Nusantara

Astro Nusantara was a satellite television service in Indonesia, operated by PT Direct Vision since 28 February 2006, a joint venture company between Astro All Asia Networks plc and PT First Media Tbk, a subsidiary of Lippo Group. The service consisted of 48 channels including 5 locally produced...

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List of programmes

• Art Factory
• Attack of the Show!
  Attack of the Show!
  Attack of the Show! is an American live television program shown weeknights on G4, G4 Canada and Fuel TV in Australia. The program is hosted by Kevin Pereira and Candace Bailey...
  
  
• Filter
• Hobby TV
• Learning English with Osmo
• Living English
• Look Ahead
• Mouse TV
• Open University
  Open University
  The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• The Big Q
• Xfresh TV
• X-Play
  X-Play
  X-Play is a TV program about video games, known for its reviews and comedy skits...
  
  
• Extr@
  Extr@
  extr@ was an educational TV series that ran from 2002 to 2004. There were four versions: English, French, German and Spanish. The latter was co-produced by RAI CPTO for Rai Educational.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Big Bang
  The Big Bang (TV series)
  The Big Bang is a CITV science show that broadcast from April 15, 1996 - September 8, 2004, produced by Yorkshire Television. It is notable for being one of CITV's longest-running science programmes...
  
  
• Backyard Science
  Backyard Science
  Backyard Science is an Australian educational children's television show based on the Dorling Kindersley books. In this series, children experiment with everyday items in order to make something fun and practical and also provide scientific insights in a child's world.The show is co-hosted by Tarun...
  
  
• Robbie and The Book Of Tales
• Cows and Crayons
• Super Why
• Jobs For Juniors
• Count TV
• Puzzle Maths
• The English Room
• Study English
• Kids World @TVIQ
• Kid Detectives
• Lab Rats Challenge
• Finger Tips
• Clever
• Clever(Edisi Malaysia)
• Dunia Adik @TVIQ

See also

• List of Malaysian television stations
• Astro
• TV Pendidikan
  TV Pendidikan
  TV Pendidikan was an education television channel which formerly airs on Malaysia's terrestrial channel, TV9. TV Pendidikan is fully owned and produced by the Educational Technology Division, the Ministry of Education of Malaysia and it shows various programmes for various school subjects...