10 Facts About RCTI

1.

RCTI is an Indonesian free-to-air television network based in West Jakarta.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,641
2.

RCTI was officially inaugurated on the morning of 24 August 1989 by President Suharto as Indonesia's first privately owned commercial television network.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,642
3.

RCTI was initially broadcast to Greater Jakarta area as a local pay television channel and gained a nationwide terrestrial license a year later.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,643
4.

RCTI was initially co-owned by PT Rajawali Wira Bhakti Utama and PT Bimantara Citra, thus its name.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,644
5.

RCTI now has 47 relay stations around Indonesia and reaches over 180 million viewers.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,645
6.

RCTI has broadcast various popular soap opera titles from production houses such as Multivision Plus, Starvision Plus, Prima Entertainment, Soraya Intercine Films, Tobali Putra Productions, and 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.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,646
7.

RCTI is available as a free-to-air channel in East Timor, but only in Dili and other cities such as Ermera and Baucau.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,647
8.

RCTI is available in Malaysia as a free-to-air channel in Johor Bahru, and in Singapore as a free-to-air channel by using antenna.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,648
9.

RCTI is the only Indonesian free-to-air TV channel to be broadcast free-to-air outside Indonesia.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,649
10.

Obama Eksklusif RCTI Bersama Putra Nababan is a television program that aired in March 2010, showing an interview between Indonesian journalist Putra Nababan and President Barack Obama.

FactSnippet No. 1,475,650