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RCTI
Television broadcaster in Indonesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RCTI (abbreviated from Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia) is a West Jakarta-based Indonesian free-to-air television broadcaster. It is best known for its soap operas, celebrity bulletins, news, and sports programmes. It was first launched in 1989, originally as a local pay television operator that broadcasts mostly foreign programmes, before switching to free-to-air terrestrial network a year later.
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Type | Television broadcaster |
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Country | Indonesia |
Broadcast area | Nationwide |
Headquarters | Studios: MNC Studios, Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta, Jakarta News Studios: iNews Center, Menteng, Central Jakarta, Jakarta |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Indonesian |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV 16:9 (downscaled to 576i 16:9 for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | MNC Media |
Parent | Global Mediacom (MNC Asia Holding) |
Key people | Kanti Mirdiati Firmansyah |
Sister channels | |
History | |
Founded | 21 August 1987 |
Launched | 13 November 1988 (1988-11-13) (Trial broadcast) 24 August 1989; 34 years ago (1989-08-24) (Official broadcast) |
Founder |
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Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital | Check local frequencies (in Indonesian language) |
Streaming media | |
RCTI+ | Watch live (Indonesia only) |
Vision+ | Watch live (Subscription required, Indonesia only) |
MIVO | Watch live |
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RCTI was initially co-owned by PT Rajawali Wira Bhakti Utama (later Rajawali Corpora) and PT Bimantara Citra (later Global Mediacom, now known as PT Media Nusantara Citra (MNC)), thus its name.[1] One of its commissioners at that time, Indra Rukmana, is the husband of Tutut Soeharto, the founder and ex-owner of its eventual sister network, TPI. It is completely owned by MNC, which also owns GTV, MNCTV, and iNews, both private Indonesian television networks.