sebuah tv nasional
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 first test transmission, of the Indonesian
Independence Day celebrations from the
Merdeka Palace transmission on August 17th, 1962. TVRI went on the air with a television set broadcasting stations started
Sign-on
transmission first 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 (TV
Indonesia). Two years later, the first 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 first colour television signal was transmitted via a
satellite
transmission, it took place in 1974. The first colour news bulletin
actual coverage standard main information news programmes being the
Berita Nasional (National News),
Berita Dalam Dunia (News in the World), breaking events segments on
Laporan Khusus (Special Report)) and
Berita Terakhir (Late News). Subsequently, the first
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 second channel on Channel 8.
In 1989, TVRI lost its monopoly when the government's sixth Five-Year
Plan allowed private television stations to begin broadcasting. the
first 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.