TIMELINEDecember 24th 1998
MaltaMedia makes its public debut with an experimental webcast of the Christmas Midnight Mass from Ta' Pinu Basillica and Sanctuary in Gozo.1999
June 1st
Official launch of the MaltaMedia Daily Online News Service.August 22nd
Online opinion polls are launched. Readers can now register their opinion about several issues currently in the news.October 17th
The MaltaMedia Sports coverage is launched. It is the first professional, regular and comprehensive sports news coverage on the Internet from the Maltese Islands.November 22nd
The MaltaMedia Budget 2000 Special Feature results in the most successful day so far for MaltaMedia News Service with 5,500 hits on a single day. This Special Feature offered a preview of the Budget presented by the Minister of Finance, full text of the actual Budget Speech, and the first reactions immediately after the speech.December
For the first time ever in Maltese history, the President of Malta and the Archbishop of Malta make an address on the Internet to the Maltese people around the world on the occasion of the New Millennium. These messages are exclusive to MaltaMedia.2000
February
aboutmalta.com, the online guide to everything about the Maltese Islands (formerly known as Grazio's Malta Virtwali) starts carrying MaltaMedia's News headlines on its main page.April
The MaltaMedia Forum is launched to provide a platform for the MaltaMedia News followers to voice their opinion on news and current affairs such as Malta's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 and Malta's connection with the Lockerbie case.May 31st
The MaltaMedia Daily Online News Service receives more than one millions hits in a single month and serves almost 600,000 pages during the same period, making it the number one choice for Maltese news on-line.September
Through a collaboration agreement with Klabb Kotba Maltin, Books.aboutmalta.com becomes the network's e-commerce offering for anyone looking for books from or about Malta.December
MaltaMedia starts providing some of its services to mobile phone subscribers on the go mobile and Vodafone networks in the Maltese Islands.2001
January
MaltaWeather.com becomes the newest website on the MaltaMedia Online Network through a collaboration agreement with the Balzan Malta Weather Station.February
Ir-Radju ta' l-Universita' starts broadcasting a weekly news round-up from MaltaMedia. Segments from the broadcast are made available as webcasts through MaltaMedia.com.March
The Techinvest Group embraces MaltaMedia within its fold and a new board of directors now governs the company's interests.May
Pope John Paul II's second visit to Malta is covered extensively by the MaltaMedia Online Network. More than 100,000 Internet users access the various video clips webcast through MaltaMedia.com on this occassion.September 1st
The 5-year old Maltese Soccer Web Site joins the MaltaMedia Online Network and becomes maltafootball.comSeptember 11th
MaltaMedia provides up to the minute eyewitness audio accounts about the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States direct from New York City through Toni Sant, MaltaMedia's founder and artistic director, and extensive coverage of the ongoing situation from a Maltese perspective.2002
February 20th
The MaltaMedia Online Network is officially launched as a network of websites comprising MaltaMedia.com, aboutmalta.com, Books.aboutmalta.com, MaltaWeather.com and maltafootball.com.April 6th
A collaboration between the MaltaMedia Online Network and Lunik Digital, an independent video-production house, debuts its work on television as X'inhu Ghaddej -- a television programme about what's on in Malta and Gozo. The weekly TV slot compliments MMON's interactive online events calendar. This is the first such collaboration in the Maltese Islands.August
GozoWeather.com becames the newest website to join the MaltaMedia Online Network. This is the first weather website from Gozo. Created in collaboration with the Nadur Gozo Weather Observatory, this website offers a marine forecast and other weather reports, which compliment the services offered by MaltaWeather.com.October 21st
MaltaMedia introduces its news service as an audio feed for radio. The first radio station to pick up this service for broadcasting is Radio Calypso (102.3 FM). The MaltaMedia audio news service is also available online through the MaltaMedia.com website.2003
March-April
The MaltaMedia Daily Online News Service is delivered directly from the counting halls in Ta' Qali during the Malta EU Referendum and 2003 General Elections vote counting sessions.November 3rd
MaltaMedia's Editor-in-Chief, Martin Debattista, won the e-journalism category of the 13th Annual Malta Journalism Awards organized by The Malta Press Club. Electronic Journalism was one of this year's new categories.2004
January-December
aboutmalta.com celebrates 10 years online. The website was created in late 1993 and first appeared as Grazio's Malta Virtwali in 1994. It remains the oldest surviving Malta-related website to date.April 25th
MaltaMedia's Founder, Toni Sant, establishes the first blog on the MaltaMedia Online Network. Toni Sant's Blog eventually gathers a following of loyal readers, some of whom remember his previous endevours on radio, television and newspapers in Malta.2005
April
RSS feeds are introduced for a couple of services from the MaltaMedia Online Network, including MaltaMedia.com's Headline News and Toni Sant's Blog.June 15
A new exclusive online cartoon series called Whatever from a rookie cartoonist known as magnumT debuts on the MaltaMedia Online Network.June 28
Wired Temples: Malta on the Web, a daily blog originally created by Robert Micallef in December 2004, moves to the MaltaMedia Online Network. Wired Temples is a global window on Maltese culture, news, society, people, history and blogs. At this time, Robert Micallef joins the aboutmalta.com editorial team too, and aboutmalta.com's Maltese blogroll is created. A few days later, aboutmalta.com managing editor, Pierre J. Mejlak, moves his personal blog to the MaltaMedia Online Network too, bringing the number of blogs published by MMON to three.August 27
The MaltaMedia Online Network introduces the world's first series of podcasts in Maltese. After a few days of podcasting tests by Toni Sant, MMON releases a 23-part series based on the webcast reports originally published on MaltaMedia.com in the aftermath of 9/11. This podcasting series is designed to mark the 4th anniversary since the attacks in 2001.October 1
The aboutmalta.com newsletter 5th anniversary issue is published. This edition marks 5 years of non-stop monthly releases of this pioneering online publication. The aboutmalta.com newsletter first appeared on October 1, 2000, and has never missed an issue since then. This makes it the only Malta-related newsletter to run for so long, with such regularity.November 14th
MaltaMedia's Brussels' Correspondent, Pierre J. Mejlak, won the e-journalism category of the 15th Annual Malta Journalism Awards organized by the Institute of Maltese Journalists, formerly The Malta Press Club. This is MaltaMedia's second win in Electronic Journalism at the Malta Journalism Awards.