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Television in the Philippines was introduced in October 1953 upon the first commercial broadcast made by Alto Broadcasting System (now ABS-CBN), making the Philippines the first Southeast Asian country and the second in Asia to do so. Even before that, during the late 1940s, several academic experiments had been done and replicated by Filipino ...
ABS-CBN Studios (also known as ABS-CBN Entertainment, ABS-CBN Entertainment Group, ABS-CBN Entertainment Department, or just simply ABS-CBN) is a Philippine film, television production and distribution company and the entertainment division of ABS-CBN Corporation. It was founded in 1962 with Mga Bayani sa Kalawakan as its first program.
ABS-CBN's first television broadcast was on October 23, 1953, as Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) on DZAQ-TV, three months after the first broadcast of Japan's NHK General TV and Nippon Television. It is the first television network in Southeast Asia to broadcast in color, the first television network in the Philippines to formally launch a ...
ABS-CBN (an initialism of its two predecessors' names, Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network) was a Philippine commercial broadcast network that served as the flagship property of the ABS-CBN Corporation, a company under the Lopez Group owned by the López family.
Light Network/ZOE TV: On March 1, 2017, ZOE Broadcasting Network made history in Philippine TV broadcasting as it switched to digital-only broadcasting, using DZOZ-TV Channel 33 (587.143 MHz). Light Network was the first TV network in the country to fully abandon its analog transmissions and shift to digital television, as network engineers ...
Kapamilya Channel has been available through most cable providers who are members of Philippine Cable and Telecommunications Association (PCTA) (including ABS-CBN's Sky Cable, Converge ICT's Vision and Streamtech's Planet Cable); and, through direct broadcast satellite television service providers Sky Direct (until June 30, 2020), G Sat, and since October 21, 2020, via Cignal and SatLite.
During the administration of President Corazon Aquino, it became known as People's Television Network (PTV) after a brief period under the New TV-4 branding. The years following its broadcast, PTV's facilities, then housed on a major part of ABS-CBN's present studio complex in Bohol (now Sgt. Esguerra) Avenue, Quezon City, became a subject of a legal battle between the Lopezes and the Government.
The broadcasting center, conceptualized by ABS-CBN's then-President Eugenio Lopez Jr., began construction on February 24, 1967 and was opened on December 18, 1968.Prior to the opening, ABS-CBN held headquarters in two buildings: the ABS building along Roxas Boulevard, Pasay (then in the province of Rizal) for ABS-CBN's Manila TV stations at that time (i.e. DZAQ-TV 3 and DZXL-TV 9), and the ...