RCTI

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RCTI

Logo since 20 May 2015
Type	Television broadcaster
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	SCTV (1990–1993) Metro TV (2001–2003) GTV (2001–present) MNCTV (2003–present) iNews (2008–present)
History
Founded	21 August 1987
Launched	13 November 1988 (1988-11-13) (Trial broadcast) 24 August 1989; 35 years ago (1989-08-24) (Official broadcast)
Founder	Peter F. Gontha and Bambang Trihatmodjo (Bimantara Citra) Peter Sondakh (Rajawali Wirabhakti Utama)
Links
Website	www.rcti.tv
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

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.

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.