TVRI
In 1961, the Indonesian government decided to include the establishment of a national television station as part of the preparations for the 1962 Asian Games to be held in Jakarta. Later that year, the Television Preparation Committee was formed. In October, President Sukarno ordered the building of a studio in Senayan, Jakarta and two television towers. TVRI broadcast its 1st test transmission, of the Indonesian Independence Day celebrations from the Merdeka Palace transmission on August 17, 1962. TVRI went on the air with a television set broadcasting stations started Sign-on transmission 1st on air launched coverage live from the television broadcasting studios event of the 1962 Asian Games opening ceremony on August 24, 1962 under the official name of Televisi Indonesia. Two years later, the 1st of the regional broadcast stations opened in Yogyakarta, Semarang, Medan, Surabaya, Makassar, Manado, Batam, Palembang, Bali and Balikpapan.In 1974 TVRI became part of the Information Ministry, with the status of a directorate. Its role was to inform the public about government policies.
The 1st colour television signal was transmitted via a satellite transmission, it took place in 1974. The 1st colour news bulletin actual coverage standard main information news programmes being the Berita Nasional, Berita Dalam Dunia (News in the World), breaking events segments on Laporan Khusus (Special Report)) and Berita Terakhir (Late News). Subsequently, the 1st live colour telecast was of the 1974 FIFA World Cup between West Germany and Chile form opening ceremony on June 13, 1974 to final between West Germany and Netherlands from the closing ceremony on July 7, 1974.
TVRI in the late 1970s and 1980s became a well defined mass media component of the national information department. By that time it also had a 2nd channel on Channel 8.
In 1989, TVRI lost its monopoly when the government's 6th Five-Year Plan allowed private television stations to begin broadcasting. the 1st commercial television station being RCTI.
After the start of the reform era, TVRI's status was changed again and it became responsible firstly to the Ministry of Finance and was then turned into a limited company under the authority of the State Ministry for State-Owned Enterprises and Ministry of Finance.
TVRI has 22 regional stations and more than 6,800 employees, of which 2,000 are based in Jakarta. It broadcast information and educational content as well as entertainment from 4:00 am to 2:00 am on the next day.
Formerly, TVRI broadcasts from 5:30 am to 8:30 am until 5:00 pm to midnight (7 hours), is a broadcasting a 10 hours network ranking form a MNCTV (formerly TPI), ANTV and Indosiar. Indosiar was formerly channel on TVRI showing dedicated programming form 5:00 pm to 1:00 am and broadcasting a 8 hours on TVRI and dedicated programming from 3:00 pm to 2:00 am broadcasting a 11 hours on Indosiar.
Along with government digital television, TVRI also has 4 channel, currently broadcast in DVB-T. TVRI 1 with national coverage, TVRI 2 with regional coverage (currently Jakarta), TVRI 3 with programme focused on culture and TVRI 4 with sport programme.
