| RTV | |
| Type: | Television broadcaster |
| Country: | Indonesia |
| Area: | Nationwide |
| Headquarters: | Thamrin City, Jl. Thamrin Boulevard, Kebon Melati, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta 10230 |
| Former Names: | B Channel (2009–2014) |
| Owner: | Rajawali Corpora |
| Key People: | Artine S. Utomo (CEO) |
| Founder: | Sofia Koswara |
| Launch Date: | (trial broadcast) (original; official broadcast) (relaunched as RTV) |
| Language: | Indonesian |
| Terr Serv 1: | Digital terrestrial television |
| Terr Chan 1: | Check local frequencies (in Indonesian language) |
| Online Serv 1: | IndiHome TV |
| Online Chan 1: | Watch live (IndiHome customers only) |
| Online Serv 2: | Vidio |
| Online Chan 2: | Watch live |
| Online Serv 3: | Vision+ |
| Online Chan 3: | Watch live |
PT Metropolitan Televisindo, operating as Rajawali Televisi (RTV, stylized as rtv) is an Indonesian television broadcaster in Indonesia, owned by Rajawali Corpora. RTV is categorised as "family television", licensed via the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Its frequency is coordinated through the Department of Transportation.
RTV aired for the first time on 1 November 2009 in Jakarta, originally as B Channel. B Channel later changed its name to RTV with the launch of Langit Rajawali on 3 May 2014.
Broadcasting 24 hours a day, RTV's programs focus on entertainment, soft news, and a variety of animation programs, ranging from anime, tokusatsu and children's animation.
The broadcaster, originally known as B Channel, was co-founded by Sofia Koswara and Rajawali Corpora in 2008, at the time being relayed through a local television station in Cikarang, TVN (now part of RTV regional stations). In 2012, Rajawali bought Koswara's stake in B Channel. On 3 May 2014, B Channel changed its name to RTV during the Langit Rajawali special event.
In 2016, Mayapada Group acquired a 20% stake in RTV ownership from Rajawali. Mayapada later acquired another television network INTV (formerly Banten TV), which in 2019 was relaunched as MYTV.
On 30 March 2017, during a press conference, RTV announced that they would focus more on children's programmes.[1] In February 2018, RTV opened a smaller studio at KidZania Jakarta.[2]
RTV broadcasts from Greater Jakarta and its surrounding areas, with digital television reaching over 26 UHF frequencies. Since August 2018, RTV is available throughout Indonesia from satellite Telkom-4 (previously from satellite Apstar 6 and Palapa D). Additionally, RTV broadcasts can be watched through subscription television packages, including Nex Parabola, Transvision, IndiHome, First Media, and Accola Play, in addition to RTV's transmitter network.
RTV is among the top TV networks in Indonesia. It currently has 44 transmission stations in 206 cities in the country. The TV is also available on other platforms, such as pay TV, online streaming, and other digital media.
Since 2019, RTV largely broadcasts animated series. Despite this, RTV is not a children's interest channel.
Animation programming airs from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm on daily.
RTV airs a sports programming entitled RTV Sports, the sports division of the RTV. In the past, the network obtained broadcasting rights for French Ligue 1 football matches for 2 years, namely the 2012-2013 to 2013-2014 season. The network would broadcast 204 matches or 6 matches per week which would be broadcast every Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday night until midnight. On 3 May 2014, RTV tried to play with sporting events, when in October 2015 the television network got the rights to broadcast the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup. On 9 May 2017, RTV received broadcast rights to broadcast all matches of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and 4 matches of the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup (semi final, third place playoff, and final matches only). Then, in 2020, RTV again broadcast live broadcasts of English second caste football matches by obtaining broadcasting rights for the EFL through collaboration with license owners Nex Parabola, Vidio and Champions TV for the next 2 seasons from 2020-21 to 2021-22. RTV will broadcast 110 EFL Championship matches or 3 matches per week, both live and delayed.
Currently, the remaining sports programming on RTV only consisting Strongman Champions League and Monster Knockout.
From 2017 to 2018, anniversary specials aired on Pesta Sahabat, formerly stand-alone and not-made-for-kids from 2015 to 2016. To celebrate its fifth anniversary, RTV aired Hey Tayo on 3 May 2019, based on the children's animated series Tayo the Little Bus. RTV currently also airing many news magazines programs, which has similar concepts with On the Spot on Trans7 or Berita Viral on BTV.
RTV's old mascot Mr. Ravi, was replaced by Rio, which is depicted as a purple-colored superhero with an eagle head-like helmet; although currently its mascots are not often seen on air.
As B-Channel
As RTV