 Unlike TVRI, RCTI was allowed to broadcast advertisements up to 15% its broadcast hours, and began as a local station before broadcasting countrywide.TVRI would finally air advertisements since 1998 after the country transitioned to democracy.On August 24, 1990, the third television station, Surya Citra Televisi or SCTV, formerly Surabaya Centra Televisi, was inaugurated.