The Drunken Republic show & TV business competition
Every Monday night, I enjoy the TV show aired by Indosar titled Republik BBM (Benar Benar Mabok), literally means The Really Really Drunken Republic. Commedian Taufik Savalas act as president and Ucup Keliek as the vice president. Ucup is similar to Ucu, nickname of VP Jusuf Kalla. This is really a funny show. Look at the picture. Mimmicking president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Kalla. The difference, surely, the president in the show shorter than the VP, while SBY is taller than Kalla.Communication expert Effendi Gazali is one of the panelists in the TV show along with Wimar Witoelar, former spokes person of Abdurrahman Wahid administration.
Yesterday, Gazali informed the viewers that Indosiar management had asked the stoppage of the program after a meeting at VP Jusuf Kalla's resident on Sunday morning. Gazali said two Indosiar competitors expressed their objection on the program.
Several TV stations owners attended the meeting. They were Anthony Salim (Indosiar), Chairul Tandjung (TransTV), Surya Paloh (MetroTV), Abdul Latif (Lativi), Aburizal Bakrie and Anindya Bakrie (ANTV).
But Kalla's spokes person Mukhlis Hasyim denied the report saying VP Kalla even wanted the protesters to express their criticism through TV shows like Republik BBM.
Well, according to the law, the VP has no rights to ban such TV show. But the Broadcasting Commission has that. The VP must be drunk enough to do such things. Viewers are dizzy with such pressure and should rally behind Indosiar to keep the show alive, right?
I hope we could still enjoy the show tonight. According to the schedule of program, tonight's episode would be about the cabinet meeting to discuss the naughty neighboring country. I bet this is about the recent Australia-Indonesia diplomatic tension.
Political analyst J. Kristiadi from CSIS will appear in the show tonight as a friend of Gazali (president's advisor).
"The issue of stopping the show is a mere business competition between TV stations," Kristiadi said to Detik.com.
How healthy is the TV business?
Indonesia has four TV stations with national coverage which struggling financially. Lativi, for example, has huge bad debts to Bank Mandiri. Metro, TV7 (Kompas Group), and state-owned TVRI are also reportedly in financial trouble. Indonesiar booked net loss of Rp148 billion last year, in contrast to 2004 net profit of Rp125bn due to significant drop in advertisement income.
RCTI, on the other hand, booked net profit of Rp148bn last year, unchanged from the same amount it booked in 2004. SCTV also recorded net profit of Rp65.4bn, improved from Rp52bn in 2004.
I have no information on two other major TV stations, TransTV (owned by Chaerul Tanjung) and ANTV (Bakrie & Rupert Murdoch).
Yesterday, Gazali informed the viewers that Indosiar management had asked the stoppage of the program after a meeting at VP Jusuf Kalla's resident on Sunday morning. Gazali said two Indosiar competitors expressed their objection on the program.
Several TV stations owners attended the meeting. They were Anthony Salim (Indosiar), Chairul Tandjung (TransTV), Surya Paloh (MetroTV), Abdul Latif (Lativi), Aburizal Bakrie and Anindya Bakrie (ANTV).
But Kalla's spokes person Mukhlis Hasyim denied the report saying VP Kalla even wanted the protesters to express their criticism through TV shows like Republik BBM.
Well, according to the law, the VP has no rights to ban such TV show. But the Broadcasting Commission has that. The VP must be drunk enough to do such things. Viewers are dizzy with such pressure and should rally behind Indosiar to keep the show alive, right?
I hope we could still enjoy the show tonight. According to the schedule of program, tonight's episode would be about the cabinet meeting to discuss the naughty neighboring country. I bet this is about the recent Australia-Indonesia diplomatic tension.
Political analyst J. Kristiadi from CSIS will appear in the show tonight as a friend of Gazali (president's advisor).
"The issue of stopping the show is a mere business competition between TV stations," Kristiadi said to Detik.com.
How healthy is the TV business?
Indonesia has four TV stations with national coverage which struggling financially. Lativi, for example, has huge bad debts to Bank Mandiri. Metro, TV7 (Kompas Group), and state-owned TVRI are also reportedly in financial trouble. Indonesiar booked net loss of Rp148 billion last year, in contrast to 2004 net profit of Rp125bn due to significant drop in advertisement income.
RCTI, on the other hand, booked net profit of Rp148bn last year, unchanged from the same amount it booked in 2004. SCTV also recorded net profit of Rp65.4bn, improved from Rp52bn in 2004.
I have no information on two other major TV stations, TransTV (owned by Chaerul Tanjung) and ANTV (Bakrie & Rupert Murdoch).
Labels: Bakrie, Bank Mandiri, Chairul Tanjung, President SBY, Salim, Surya Paloh
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