RCTI


 * Not to be confused with RTV (Indonesia).

Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (abbreviated as RCTI) is a first and oldest national private television station in Indonesia launched on 24 August 1989. RCTI was also the first television in Indonesia to re-air advertisements for the first time since TVRI stopped providing ad-breaks in 1981.

It was founded by a joint venture of Bimantara Citra and Rajawali Corpora (which later divested its shares in the early 2000s, and acquired B-Channel that became RTV in 2014). Since 2003, its shares hold by Media Nusantara Citra, part of MNC Group.

1988–2000
RCTI was founded in 1987 and began its broadcast on 13 November 1988, using a set-top box. The station was officially launched on 24 August 1989, as a pay television network in Jakarta. One year later, it started to broadcasting free-to-air. In 1991, RCTI expanded to Bandung and began airing Nationally since 1993.

On 24 August 1990, Bimantara Citra founded SCTV in Surabaya to relay most RCTI shows until 1993 (and 1996 for its news programmes), when it began to broadcast nationally. SCTV finally separated from the parent network in 1996 after gradually produced its own shows and news.

During its early broadcast, RCTI's on-air bug was a simple text until the mid-1990s, when it started to use the full logo. It was placed on the right top with the exception of relaying TVRI's news program Dunia Dalam Berita, Siaran Berita TVRI and Berita Terakhir the logo was moved to the left top.

1993–2000
On 24 August 1993, the logo was slightly updated by reducing its stripes from eleven to seven (including the red ones), which had launched along with new idents. The former two was still used as a corporate and off-air logo until 2000.

2000–2015


The most familiar and long-lived logo of RCTI was launched during the 11th anniversary of RCTI called Satu Indonesia Satu, on 24 August 2000. It retained the blue and red colour along with the simplified Rajawali's head. However, the whole logo was simply redrawn, thus making all stripes removed.

Since then, the on-air bug position was moved from right top to left top. Starting 2003, RCTI broadcast 24 hours non-stop.

2015–present
Along with MNC Group slightly rebranding on its several subsidiaries on 20 May 2015, during Indonesian National Awakening (Hari Kebangkitan Nasional), RCTI logo was also straightened for the first time in almost 15 years.