PM2FGZ

PM2FGZ

City	Central Jakarta, Special Jakarta Capital Region
Broadcast area	Jabodetabek (Greater Jakarta), Karawang, Serang, parts of Lebak, Purwakarta, and West Bandung Regency
Branding	Elshinta News and Talk
Slogan	Berita Aktual dan Informasi Terkini, 24 Jam Non Stop (English: Actual news and latest information)[1]
Frequency	90.0 MHz
First air date	1972, All-news format: 14 February 2000[2]
Format	Talk radio
Class	A
Former frequencies	1368 AM,[3] 90.05 FM[4]
Owner	Elshinta Media Network (under Salim Group)
Website	elshinta.co.id

PM2FGZ (90.0 FM, often abbreviated 90 FM), on air name Elshinta News and Talk or Elshinta, is an all-news radio in Jakarta, Indonesia.

History

In 1972, the station was started under Soejoso Karsono, a musician. Elshinta starts as an amateur radio named after his daughter Elshinta. At that time, Elshinta Radio plays Hawaiian music. The station's name influenced Karsono's band name, The Elshinta's Hawaiian Seniors. Later in 1976, Elshinta name was dropped from the band's name.^[5]

After acquisition by Salim Group, Karsono created Suara Irama Indah (now Jak 101 FM), first commercial FM radio in Indonesia. Later on, Elshinta became music radio with a few news insert, due to limitations of news broadcast pre-1998. Elshinta completely abandoned its music programming in 14 February 2000. Today, Elshinta only broadcasts news and talk programming, except sponsored content and affiliations like NHK World Service.^[6]

Before 2011, Elshinta was in the same group with Indosiar TV. In 2011, Indosiar was acquired by Elang Media Teknologi/Emtek, owner of SCTV.^[7] Elshinta was also acquired by Emtek, but separated in 2013, creating new entity "Elshinta Media".

Programming

• News and Talk Edisi Pagi (morning show, 5-10am)
• News and Talk Edisi Siang (high noon show, 10am-4pm)
• News and Talk Edisi Sore (afternoon to evening show, 4pm-9pm)
• News and Talk Edisi Malam (night show 9pm-12am)
• News and Talk Edisi Dinihari (after midnight show, 12-5am)
• Interactive Discussion (11pm-1am, together with News and Talk Malam)
• Komisi Anda (late night discussion show, 1-5am together with News and Talk Dinihari)
• NHK World Service
• China Radio International (CRI)^[8]

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Network

Elshinta has 8 regional stations that are self-owned. Elshinta regional stations relay Jakarta's broadcast, but sometimes local news session is found in certain stations. Elshinta also has 32 affiliations across the Indonesian archipelago.^[10]

Media Group

Elshinta has its own media group, consists of Elshinta Magazine, Elshinta.com, TV station in Jakarta Elshinta TV, and Fit Radio.

Influence

Elshinta broadcasts simultaneous news update when a great disaster is happened in Indonesia, especially where the radio network exists. Some people relied to Elshinta for disaster updates, especially before Internet use increased in Indonesia. In Jakarta, Elshinta competes only with RRI Pro 3 88.8 FM, but its provincial stations have local competitors like 107.5 PRFM and Suara Surabaya 100 FM.
In 2016 Jakarta Attack and 2018 Surabaya Attack, Elshinta broadcast updates and commentaries about that terrorism event. However, Elshinta was warned by the Broadcasting Commission (KPI) due to fake explosion news spreading^[13] in 2016 Jakarta Attack. Elshinta said that they never spread that hoax news.

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