RCTI

RCTI (Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia) is a West Jakarta-based Indonesian free-to-air television network. 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.
History
In October 1987, state broadcaster TVRI lost its monopoly when the government allowed private television networks to begin broadcasting. RCTI was officially inaugurated on the morning of 24 August 1989 by President Suharto as Indonesia's first privately owned commercial television network. Evening programming was launched by Minister of Information Harmoko. RCTI was initially broadcast to Greater Jakarta area as a local pay television channel and gained a nationwide terrestrial license a year later. Prior to 1994, RCTI mostly aired foreign programmes as it cost less compared to self-produced programmes, and to evoke the look and feel of a conventional pay television (which was a new and expensive technology in Indonesia at the time) . From 1989 to 1990, the station's subscription system requires an UHF set-top box, and in some areas, with a satellite dish. During this time, the subscription system was incorrectly branded as a "pay-per-view", despite the fact that it works similarly as a conventional pay television that requires monthly subscription.
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. One of its commissioner 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.
RCTI, MNCTV and GTV was removed from Cable subscription of First Media due to limited Broadcasting rights period as result from information posted by First Media Twitter account at January 2013. There are same with IPTV service IndiHome at 8 April 2016, but GTV still aired on First Media through MNC Vision transmission since 2019.
Since the digital television transition started on November 2, 2022, the PAL broadcast of RCTI Jakarta was scheduled to shut down on November 3, 2022 at 12:00am, but was delayed to November 3, 2022, at 23:59:19 WIB/11:59pm after Kominfo statement with MNC Group or ANTV issues that did not force them to shut down the analogue service in Jakarta when TVRI or other TV stations shut down the analogue service quickly and switched to DVB-T2 services on November 3, 2022 at 12:00am.
RCTI now has 47 relay stations around Indonesia and reaches over 180 million viewers.
Programming
The flagship news program is Seputar iNews (formerly Seputar Indonesia), which has morning, lunchtime and late-night editions. RCTI also airs quiz shows, including the Indonesian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which ran from 2001 to 2006. Animated shows include the original Aikatsu! series, Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan. Aikatsu! and Crayon Shin-Chan have since been replaced by locally produced Kiko.
RCTI has broadcast various popular soap opera titles from production houses such as Multivision Plus, Starvision Plus, Prima Entertainment (closed), Soraya Intercine Films, Tobali Putra Productions, and also currently the production houses owned by MNC Media which focuses on its own production as well as the distributor of soap operas from the production house that has been mentioned previously, namely MNC Pictures. This happened because the contract collaboration between SinemArt and MD Entertainment with MNC Group has been ended, because the shares were taken back by SCM (SinemArt) and Trans Media. RCTI currently airs several television series known as Layar Drama Indonesia (formerly Mega Sinetron), showing in many titles, and the most popular television series currently are Ikatan Cinta (The Tie of Love). Formerly, it also airs weekly television series like Bella Vista, Mutiara Cinta (Pearls of Love), Shangri-La, Tuyul dan Mbak Yul, the fantasy-comedy Bidadari Yang Terluka (Rage of Angel), and ABG. It also airs occasional sport programmes and localized version of talent show under international licenses, such as Indonesian Idol, Rising Star Indonesia, MasterChef Indonesia, X Factor Indonesia, and Indonesia's Got Talent (mutation from Indosiar and SCTV).
at July 2023, UEFA announced that RCTI is comeback to winning the UEFA Champions League rights for 2024-2025 though 2026-2027 seasons replace Emtek since 1990s, 2000s, 2010-2012 season and 2018-2019 season.
Other segments
During the Break (Jeda Iklan) programming in RCTI, Some RCTI Commercial Break at Pay TV feeds interrupted by MNC Vision Networks version for All Pay TV providers since 18 July 2019 after RCTI full encrypted at Palapa D (now moved to Telkom-4) due to rights issues with third-parties of RCTI unauthorized rebroadcast.
Like other Indonesian television networks, For RCTI Nationwide feed not be shown Subuh and Maghrib from Jakarta. RCTI shows Subuh and Maghrib prayer calls (adhan) in some transmitter stations, including Jakarta and Bandung. The prayer calls are best known for using a recording of Sheikh Ali Ahmed Mulla, a well-known muezzin of Masjid al-Haram in Saudi Arabia
Some RCTI transmitter stations also broadcast local programming. For example, RCTI Surabaya airs Seputar iNews Jatim, while in Bandung, Seputar iNews Jabar is aired. The Palembang station shows Seputar iNews Sumsel, the Batam station shows Seputar iNews Kepri and the Medan station shows Seputar iNews Sumut. They are mostly shown during the final half-hour of Seputar iNews Pagi (05:30-06:00 WIB or, depending on the local area, 06:30-07:00 WITA and 07:30-08:00 WIT)
Overseas broadcasting
RCTI is available as a free-to-air channel in East Timor, but only in Dili and other cities such as Ermera and Baucau. RCTI is also available in Malaysia as a free-to-air channel in Johor Bahru, and in Singapore as a free-to-air channel by using antenna. RCTI is the only Indonesian free-to-air TV channel to be broadcast free-to-air outside Indonesia. Indonesian drama series like Bunga di Tepi Jalan, Bintang, Liontin and Pernikahan Dini currently air on Astro Aruna, a channel on the Singaporean SingTel mio TV 24 Hours IPTV Pay TV Service, but these were broadcast on RCTI on 2001, 2005 and 2006 respectively.
Notable broadcasts
Obama Eksklusif RCTI Bersama Putra Nababan ("Exclusive Interview with Barack Obama") is a television program that aired in March 2010, showing an interview between Indonesian journalist Putra Nababan and President Barack Obama. According to the president, it was probably the first interview ever done by Indonesian television in the White House. The interview covered the partnership between Indonesia and the United States and the president's experiences during his childhood in Indonesia.
This show won an award at the 2011 Panasonic Gobel Awards.
Presenters
Current
Atika Suri (as editor-in-chief)
Aiman Witjaksono (formerly at TVRI and Kompas TV, also an anchor at iNews and Sindonews TV)
Anggita Wulandewi Disastra (formerly at BeritaSatu)
Camar Haenda (also an anchor at iNews, Sindonews TV and Okezone TV)
Dian Mirza (former Trans TV, Metro TV, MYTV and CNBC Indonesia anchor, also an anchor at iNews, Sindonews TV and IDX Channel)
Ledi Marina (also an anchor at Sindonews TV)
Raissa Nadia (also an anchor at Sindonews TV)
Ratu Nabilla (former MNCTV, BTV and CNN Indonesia anchor, also an anchor at iNews and Sindonews TV)
Reinhard Sirait (former TVRI Jakarta, TV Edukasi, RTV and CNN Indonesia anchor, also an anchor at iNews and Sindonews TV)
Rizky Hasan (former tvOne anchor, also an anchor at Sindonews TV)
Ryanka Putra (also an anchor at Sindonews TV and Okezone TV)
Former
Ade Novit
Ahmad Mahadi
Akbari Madjid
Amalia Kartika
Apreyvita Wulansari
Arief Suditomo (now an editor-in-chief at MetroTV)
Ariyo Ardi (now at GTV and Sindonews TV)
Asti Husadi
Astrid Megatari
Astrid Wibisono (now at Kompas TV)
Bahrul Alam
Bayu Sugarda
Catharina Davy
Chandra Sugarda Nazir
Chantal Della Concetta
Dentamira Kusuma
Dian Mirza (now at iNews)
Diana Zein
Desvita Feronika Bionda (now at MNCTV)
Faris Ahmad Prasetyo
Fauziah Dasuki
Helmi Johannes (now at VOA Indonesia)
Ira Syarief
Irsan Karim (now at CNN Indonesia)
Iwan Malik (deceased)
Iwan Harjadi
Michael Tjandra (now at RTV)
Meidiana Hutomo
Desi Anwar (now at CNN Indonesia)
Putra Nababan (now a member of DPR RI PDI Perjuangan)
Adolf Posumah
Joice Triatman
Dana Iswara
Joy Astro (now at SCTV)
Devi Trianna
Edwin Nazir
Ersa Siregar (deceased)
Yusron Syarif (deceased)
Gustav Aulia
Danke Drajat
Driantama
Fetty Fajriati
Weka Gunawan
Andi Iskandar
Teguh Juwarno
Ronny Kusuma
Zaldi Nurzaman
Isyana Bagoes Oka (now at Partai Solidaritas Indonesia)
Ida Parwati
Trishna Sanubari (deceased)
Iqbal Faiz
Yohannes Stephanus
Inne Sudjono (snow at BMKG)
Ajeng Kamaratih
Siane Indriani (now at Komnas HAM)
Pius Wans Mahdi
Joni Kurniawan
Nova Poerwadi (now at VOA Indonesia)
Madrus Hakim
Andhika Pratama (now at Sonora FM and Kompas TV)
Sulthan Aqil Falah (now at Motion Radio and Kompas TV)
Nurul Izzatunnisa (now at Radio Smart FM)
Erika Herlina
Astrid Novianti
Naufal Fadhillah
Rama Wirandani (now at CNN Indonesia)
Mega Novelia
Pica Wiriahardja
Jihan Novita (now at Kompas TV)
Diaz Kaslina
Egiet Hapsari
Tasya Syarief (now at RTV)
Brigita Ferlina (retired)
Shafinaz Nachiar (now at CNBC Indonesia)
Zurayda Salim
Tommy Tjokro (now at BuddyKu)
Prabu Revolusi (currently serving as Director of News for MNC Media and Chief Editor of iNews and Sindonews TV)
Nawayogi Kusuma
Branding
Slogans
Anniversary
Menuju Indonesia Gemilang (Towards the bright Indonesia) (1998)
Satu Indonesia Satu (One Indonesia one) (2000)
RCTImu, RCTIku (My RCTI, Your RCTI) (2001)
Untukmu Selamanya (Forever for yours) (2002)
Bersama Wujudkan Impian (Together make dreams happen) (2003)
Semakin Oke (More Okays) (2004)
Selalu di Hati, Selalu di Nanti (Always in heart, always wanted) (2005)
Gemerlap Keajaiban (Sparkling Miracles) (2007)
Wujudkan Mimpi Indonesia (Make Indonesian dreams happen) (2009)
Terima Kasih Indonesia (Thanks to Indonesians) (2018)
Warna Cerita Cinta (Colors of love stories) (2019)
See also
List of television stations in Indonesia
Television in Indonesia
MNCTV
GTV
iNews
Koran Sindo
Media Nusantara Citra
References
External links
Official website
Television networks in Indonesia
Mass media in Jakarta
Television channels and stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in Indonesia
Media Nusantara Citra