ABSTRACT
Regulation may be narrowly understood as the statutes, institutions and policies which govern the operation of media business. But regulation can be understood more broadly as governance, and as a concern with cultural affairs, practices and policies, and the regulation of audiences. Regulation, that is to say, can be understood as a system of discipline and normalisation, a specific avenue along which dominant norms, values and beliefs of society are made explicit and distributed. Understood in this way, regulation rubs up against issues such as civil society and the creation and maintenance of a public sphere. It is in this broader sense that we consider the regulation of television in Malaysia.
