Friday, 27 September 2013

MetroTV

MetroTV

MetroTV
Metro TV is Indonesia's 1st 24-hour news channel based in West Jakarta. The station was established on 25 November 2000 and now has over 53 transmission sites all over the country. It is owned by Surya Paloh who also owns the Media Indonesia daily. These two, along with other newspapers distributed in different parts of Indonesia, are part of the Media Group and TV Tokyo Network, also owned by Paloh.
MetroTV was the 1st Indonesian television company to have been officially inaugurated by the President of Indonesia himself.
Metro TV has a different concept than the other stations in Indonesia; even this station broadcast 24-hour a week, it focused its programs only for news around the world.
MetroTVMetro TV broadcast three new English language programs, World News, Indonesia Now, and Talk Indonesia. It also had a Chinese language programs such as Metro Xin Wen. It has also had IT and documentary programs. Additionally, it has a culinary program and a motivation program, Mario Teguh Golden Ways. It also shows business programming, which one of them is "Economic Challenges" and Bisnis Hari Ini.
Metro TV also have an informercial block, usually Residencial, but sometimes, any price of product and technology. The infomercial block usually air on networks and stations during morning on weekends. The block has no commercial breaks. This channel is owned by Media Group, which also owns Media Indonesia and Lampung Post newspapers and TV Tokyo Corporation, which the owners are Nihon Keizai Shimbun and Mainichi Broadcasting System.
However, Metro TV wasn't the 1st Indonesian channel to be broadcast in English Language. RCTI became the 1st Indonesian channel to broadcast in English language when showing Indonesia Today on February 26, 1997, and the English news program is made with a specific target audience with foreigners who want to know the latest news and more information about Indonesia, but ended in 2001. Metro TV later broadcast Metro This Morning and News Flash. Metro This Morning was ended on late March 2007. Metro TV was the only news channel in Indonesia until 2008 when Lativi was re-branded as TV ONE by dropping all of sitcoms as well as soap operas, focusing in news and sports programs.

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