More players to liven up the TV industry<\/p>\n
By Gatot<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): In Indonesia, privatization of television has
\nbeen rapid since 1989, when the first private pay-TV service was
\nintroduced.<\/p>\n
There are now six private channels (RCTI, SCTV, TPI, Indosiar,
\nANteve and MetroTV) and one government channel (TVRI).<\/p>\n
Metro TV, the newcomer, which made its debut as the country's
\nfirst round-the-clock news channel on Nov. 25 last year, was one
\nof five new TV stations granted an operating license by the
\ngovernment in 1998.<\/p>\n
So far, the other four players have yet to disclose plans on
\nhow they are going to liven up the broadcasting competition. But
\nit is believed that one or two of them would go on air this year
\nor next year at the latest.<\/p>\n
Indonesian TV broadcasters operate at the UHF channel using
\nPAL system.<\/p>\n
PAL TV broadcasters in Indonesia use VHF and UHF radio waves
\nas audio video signal carriers when transmitting to any TV VHF
\nwhich has 11 channels in the 47 MHz - 230 MHz range. TVRI Pusat
\nJakarta is located at channel 6 at the 182.25 - 187,75 MHz range.<\/p>\n
In this country, audio carrier signals of every broadcaster
\nare modulated by an audio carrier, which is 5,5 MHz higher than
\nvideo carrier frequency signals.<\/p>\n
RCTI, for instance, located at channel 43, has a video carrier
\nsignal of frequency 647,25 MHz and its audio carrier frequency is
\n652,75 MHz.<\/p>\n
Frequencies at Indostar, a five-transponder bent-pipe
\nsatellite for Indonesian TV broadcasting, also caters for TV
\nbroadcasting in Asia.<\/p>\n
Using X-band uplinks and S-band downlinks, Indostar is Orbital
\nSciences Corporation's (OSC) first GEO and its largest commercial
\nproject.<\/p>\n
OSC, which recently acquired CTA Space Systems, is known
\nprimarily as a maker of one-of-a-kind small satellites for DOD
\nand NASA.<\/p>\n
Indonesia will need to construct and launch at least two new
\nsatellites before the end of the decade to replace Palapa B2R and
\nPalapa B4, which will soon reach the end of their mission
\nlifetimes.<\/p>\n
So we will just have to wait for the new players, namely PRTV,
\nGlobal TV, Duta Visual TV and Transformasi TV to come.<\/p>",
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