33-706: The Millennium Transmitter is a 720 ft (219.5 m) tall mast owned by ABS-CBN Corporation and operated by Advanced Media Broadcasting System located at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center , Mother Ignacia Street corner Sgt. Esguerra Avenue, Barangay South Triangle, Quezon City . Since September 13, 2022, the transmitter is being used by AMBS to serve as the platform for television transmission of ALLTV on analog Channel 2 and digital Channel 16 (frequencies formerly used by ABS-CBN itself as its flagship station DWWX-TV and transmits from this tower before it ceased broadcast operations in 2020). It
66-701: A joint venture with Prime Media Holdings ), and digital radio platform MOR Entertainment . The Kapamilya Channel, in particular, is the largest contributor to the conglomerate's revenue mainly from selling airtime to advertisers. The remaining revenue is generated from block-timing and other networks and platforms as well as from consumer sales, mainly from ABS-CBN Global Ltd. and ABS-CBN International , which distributes international television channels such as TFC HD , ANC Global , Cinema One Global , Cine Mo! Global , TeleRadyo Serbisyo Global and Myx Global and also from pay TV and broadband internet provider Sky Cable Corporation . Other companies which operate under
99-490: A new local UHF frequency, Channel 41 owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation (which is now One Sports , now co-owned by TV5 ) and Studio 23 formally became a full-fledged station, adopting rebroadcasts of its in-house cable channel Myx to fill in the void left by MTV Asia, and came up with intensified programming led by the popular reality TV game show Survivor , and several top rate US shows like 7th Heaven , Will and Grace and Charmed , among others. By 2004,
132-814: A new media and digital division under ABS-CBN which also handles news.ABS-CBN.com and ABS-CBN.com. ABS-CBN is also the principal owner of the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra . It owns ABS-CBN Studios, Inc. which operates its production facilities nationwide, including the ABS-CBN Soundstage located in Bulacan, and the newly relaunched theater arm of ABS-CBN, Teatro Kapamilya. Aside from the ABS-CBN Soundstage, ABS-CBN also owns many other real estate properties used in its operations. DWAC-TV DWAC-TV , Channel 23,
165-686: A new regional base in Singapore. ABS-CBN was picked as the broadcast arm of MTV Asia in the Philippines at the time, and Channel 23 started test broadcasts in September 1996 with rebroadcasts of the new MTV Asia from Singapore. A month later, it launched its own programming under the station name Studio 23 and adopted the slogan "Premium Television". It also became the first UHF TV station in Metro Manila to broadcast in full surround stereo, and
198-513: Is Spanish for "tall". Though they had little money and resources, ABS was able to put up its TV tower by July 1953 and import some 300 television sets. The initial test broadcasts began in September of the same year. The first full-blown broadcast was on October 23, 1953, of a party in Tony Quirino's humble abode. The television station was known as DZAQ-TV . On June 16, 1955, Republic Act No. 1343 signed by President Ramon Magsaysay granted
231-644: Is composed of divisions such as Star Hunt , Polaris , and Rise Artists Studio . The ABS-CBN media conglomerate's main entertainment and production division is called Star Creatives Group. The conglomerate's pay TV networks and channels include ANC , Cinema One , Cine Mo! , Jeepney TV , Kapamilya Channel, Knowledge Channel , Metro Channel , Myx and TeleRadyo Serbisyo . In recent years, ABS-CBN has ventured and diversified into other businesses such as over-the-top platforms iWant TFC , TFC IPTV and web-based channel Kapamilya Online Live . Both iWant TFC and Kapamilya Online Live are under ABS-CBN Digital Media ,
264-724: The Manila Chronicle its broadcasting franchise, leading to the formation of the Chronicle Broadcasting Network. The Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN) was founded on September 24, 1956, by Eugenio Lopez Sr. and the then-Philippine Vice President Fernando Lopez . The network initially focused only on radio broadcasting. It launched its very own TV station, DZXL-TV 9, on April 19 (or July ), 1958. On February 24, 1957, Don Eugenio acquired ABS from Quirino and Lindenberg. A month later, Don Eugenio also acquired Monserrat Broadcasting System. In 1958,
297-665: The Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA). The league adopted the home and away format used by the American professional league the National Basketball Association (NBA). (It however sold the franchise of the league after incurring heavy losses.) It marked the network's first serious foray into sports programming. Later, that would be added by acquiring broadcast rights to the collegiate leagues UAAP and NCAA and
330-657: The PBL . It carried a wide variety of local sporting competitions, many of which involved neighborhood schools and showcasing budding Filipino sports talents. Sports programming in Channel 23 was fully expanded with the launch of ABS-CBN Sports+Action on January 18, 2014, replacing Studio 23. On August 29, 2016, in time with the National Heroes Day celebration, ABS-CBN Sports+Action was renamed as simply S+A (S and A). On May 5, 2020, S+A Manila went off-air due to
363-572: The Philippines . It is a subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation , which is owned by the López family . ABS-CBN was formed by the merger of Alto Broadcasting System ( ABS ) and Chronicle Broadcasting Network ( CBN ). The conglomerate is metonymically called as "Ignacia" due to the location of its headquarters ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center along Mother Ignacia Street in Quezon City. ABS
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#1732790122133396-938: The ABS-CBN media conglomerate are motion picture companies under ABS-CBN Film Productions , such as Star Cinema , Cinema One Originals , Cine Bro and Black Sheep Productions , the entertainment division ABS-CBN Studios ( Dreamscape Entertainment , Star Creatives , RCD Narratives , JRB Creative Production and RGE Drama Unit under RSB Scripted Format), entertainment and film production Star Magic Studio (under Star Magic), and online ticketing and streaming site KTX . It also operate music record labels under ABS-CBN Music, such as Star Music and its subsidiaries, Tarsier Records, and MYX Global. The conglomerates's publishing assets include ABS-CBN Publishing and ABS-CBN Books, pay TV content provider and distributor Creative Programs , telecommunications company ABS-CBN Convergence (68% co-owned with Globe Telecom ). Its talent agency Star Magic
429-536: The Millennium Transmitter ceased transmission on May 5, 2020, following the expiration of its legislative franchise . ABS-CBN Corporation ABS-CBN Corporation is a Filipino media company based in Quezon City , Metro Manila , Philippines . It is the largest entertainment television and film production, program syndication provider , film distributor and media conglomerate in
462-636: The Philippine Congress , the conglomerate now mainly focuses on working as a content company , which includes producing television programs, films and other entertainment contents and distributions. The company was founded on July 11, 1946, as Bolinao Electronics Corporation (BEC). BEC was established by James Lindenberg, one of the founding fathers of Philippine television, an American electronics engineer who went into radio equipment assembly and radio broadcasting. In 1949, Lindenberg shifted Bolinao to radio broadcasting with DZBC and masterminded
495-497: The broadcasts of DWWX-TV and DWAC-TV respectively. Despite the name, the Millennium Transmitter is not a transmitter of its own, but rather a communications tower with antennas connected to multiple transmitters. The transmitter facility housed both DWWX-TV and DWAC-TV that contained sets of transmitter equipment imported by Harris and Jampro of the United States . All stations that were previously broadcasting from
528-427: The channel opened its doors to Taglish programs. It also by that time adopted a new slogan, "Kabarkada Mo!". Previous to this trend, the station was already running its own English newscast, News Central , from 1998 to 2010, effectively replacing the network's News 23 . It also geared its mostly young viewers to trends in the tech world with Digital World . With the intensified Taglish presence, Studio 23 launched
561-501: The corporate name was changed to ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation. Before it was named ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, the corporate name was Bolinao Electronics Corporation (BEC). In August 2007, the conglomerate's and network's corporate name were changed to simply ABS-CBN Corporation to reflect its diversification. According to the conglomerate's chairman Gabby Lopez during its annual stockholders' meeting three years later in May 27, 2010,
594-433: The fourth television station in the country to broadcast in stereo (after GMA-7 in 1987, SBN 21 in 1992, and RPN 9 in 1994). The station initially ran MTV rebroadcasts in the day, and ran its own shows at primetime. It also ran for 24 hours, but later reneging to a 21-hour broadcast (from 6 am to 3 am), owing to financial limitations. That has been the broadcast arrangement ever since. Five years later, MTV Asia acquired
627-605: The frequency of the station that began airing in May 1992 from a densely populated commercial area in Quezon City with a rebroadcast of MTV Asia , then telecasting from the STAR TV platform. It was later showing Channel [V] refeeds from 1994 onwards as MTV made the decision to split from STAR and form its own satellite TV portal in Asia. Just two years later in 1996, MTV Asia returned to the Philippine airwaves after establishing
660-420: The introduction of television to the country in 1953 . In 1951, Lindenberg partnered with Antonio Quirino, brother of then-Philippine President Elpidio Quirino , in order to try their hand at television broadcasting. In 1952, BEC was renamed as Alto Broadcasting System or ABS (with Alto Sales Corporation as its corporate name). "Alto" was a contraction of Quirino's and his wife's first names, Tony and Aleli, and
693-519: The more powerful dipole antennas with reflector, and increase of its height which was finished by the 3rd quarter of 2009. On June 30, 2020, the transmitter was shut off due to a cease and desist order from the National Telecommunications Commission after ABS-CBN 's legislative franchise expired on May 4, 2020. After two years of being non-operational for transmission, ABS-CBN granted the request of AMBS to use
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#1732790122133726-990: The name change was "a response to the changes in the media landscape brought about by technology. The media business has gone beyond merely broadcasting to encompass other platforms." ABS-CBN Corporation owns major media and entertainment companies in the Philippines, and offers services and products such as radio broadcast , satellite and cable television broadcast , broadcast syndication , telecommunications , publishing , content production and program and film distributor , television production , film production , new media and digital platforms , talent agencies , pay TV and broadband internet provider , consumer sales and merchandise , music label and recording , and theater . The conglomerate owns and operates general entertainment broadcaster Kapamilya Channel and English-language news service ABS-CBN News Channel under ABS-CBN , AM radio station DWPM and Filipino-language cable and online news channel TeleRadyo Serbisyo (through
759-582: The network's new headquarters at Dewey Boulevard was inaugurated, and all radio and television operations were consolidated into its two buildings – the radio stations at the Chronicle Building at Aduana Street, Intramuros , Manila and the TV operations at the brand new Dewey Boulevard building in Pasay , Rizal . The ABS-CBN brand was first used in 1961. However, it was only on February 1, 1967, that
792-520: The nightly Tagalog gag newscast Wazzup Wazzup , the interactive youth talk show Y-Speak , and several others. It even provided support shows to its highly successful local reality programs Pinoy Big Brother and Pinoy Dream Academy , both acquired from Endemol of the Netherlands and are big hits on Channel 2 . In 1998, ABS-CBN, through its sports division, ABS-CBN Sports , used Studio 23 to highlight its own professional basketball league,
825-412: The revolution, the tower was returned to ABS-CBN. Since then, the tower became the primary source of transmission for both DWWX-TV and DWRR and later it began transmitting the company's sister UHF station DWAC-TV in 1996. Its previous height was 650 ft (198.1 m), until ABS-CBN started a major reconstruction and rehabilitation of the whole tower, which included changing cylinder antennas to
858-719: The transmitter for the analog and digital broadcasts of ALLTV . This was confirmed by Willie Revillame on his show Wowowin . ALLTV later beginning simulcasting several ABS-CBN programs, such as TV Patrol , Magandang Buhay and It's Showtime , since April 15, 2024. This marked the return of ABS-CBN's operations to the transmitter tower after four years since its shutdown in 2020, albeit as an airtime lease operator. The tower uses dipole antennas with reflector , and UHF panel antennas for wide coverage of analog (VHF and UHF TV) and digital ( ISDB-T ) TV reception in Metro Manila some nearby provinces in both grades A and B, for
891-665: The word "Broadcasting" on primary uses, to signify its diversification. Due to the change in the conglomerate's name, the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation name is now used as the company's alternative and secondary name in certain contexts. The common shares of ABS-CBN were first traded on the Philippine Stock Exchange in July 1992 under the ticker symbol ABS. Due to being denied for another 25-year free-to-air broadcasting franchise by
924-515: Was also used as the main transmission site for ABS-CBN-owned DWAC-TV Channel 23, the flagship station of ABS-CBN Sports and Action , before shutting down in 2020 and its frequency reassigned to Aliw Broadcasting Corporation and its radio station DWRR until it was relocated to Antipolo when the transmitter was upgraded by the end of 1999. The Millennium Transmitter, also known as the ABS-CBN Tower, and provisionally called as AMBS Tower,
957-460: Was constructed at the corner of Mother Ignacia Street and Sgt. Esguerra Avenue, within the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center , at the time of its construction, it was one of the tallest lattice towers in the world. Construction began in the third quarter of 1968. On March 21, 1969, the tower became operational, transmitting television and radio for ABS-CBN and also used to beam color broadcasts in Metro Manila , and to nearby provinces. After martial law
990-516: Was declared on September 21, 1972, as ABS-CBN suspended their operations the following day, the facility was taken over by the crony-owned BBC-2 from 1973 to 1979; state-run People's Television's predecessors GTV/MBS-4 also occupied the tower from 1974 to 1992 to beam their programs. When the EDSA Revolution happened, both the tower and Broadcast Plaza were stormed by reformist rebels as escalating battle occurred on February 24, 1986. After
1023-461: Was founded in 1946 by American electronics engineer James Lindenberg as Bolinao Electronics Corporation (BEC). In 1952, BEC was renamed Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) with its corporate name, Alto Sales Corporation after Judge Antonio Quirino , brother of President Elpidio Quirino , purchased the company and later launched the first TV station in the country, DZAQ-TV on October 23, 1953. The company that would later be merged with ABS to form ABS-CBN
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1056-561: Was founded in 1956 as Chronicle Broadcasting Network, Inc. (CBN) by Eugenio Lopez Sr. and his brother Fernando Lopez , who was the sitting Vice President of the Philippines. A year later, the Lopezes acquired ABS. The ABS-CBN brand was first used on television in 1961. The conglomerate became known as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation on February 1, 1967. It then changed its corporate name to ABS-CBN Corporation in August 2007 where it dropped
1089-416: Was the flagship UHF station of Philippine all-sports television network ABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A), a fully owned subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation . Its studios and transmitter are located at ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center , Mother Ignacia Avenue corner Sergeant Esguerra Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. The station was acquired from Ermita Electronics Corporation in July 1996, which initially owned
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