Nine Media Corporation (formerly known as Solar Television Network, Inc. or STVNI) is a Filipino-based media company. Formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of

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(SEC), a multimedia television and film company of the Tieng family, it is now solely owned by the ALC Group of Companies of the late Amb.

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. Nine Media is currently an affiliate of

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. Its headquarters are located at the Ground Floor of the Worldwide Corporate Center,

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corner Shaw Boulevard,

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, sharing with its former parent

Solar Entertainment Solar Entertainment Corporation (simply known as Solar or SEC) is a Filipino media company based in Makati, Philippines. Founded and owned by the brothers, Wilson, William and Willy Tieng. Solar Entertainment operates two digital free-to-air ...

. It owns and operates its sole television property

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, as well as the 34% controlling share of

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(RPN). The company is named after its flagship television station in Metro Manila.

History

TV channel

Solar Entertainment launched Solar TV in the early 2000s, which was later renamed to Solar USA and then to USA. USA was split into two channels, Jack TV and Crime/Suspense, in 2005.

Solar TV Solar TV (stylized as SOLARtv) was the flagship television network of Solar Entertainment Corporation's television arm subsidiary Solar TV Network, Inc., which is the replacement of C/S 9. This was the revival of the former Solar channel Sol ...

launched last November 29, 2009, on

(RPN), then owned by the Philippine Government Communications Group, at 11:00am (Solar Entertainment already has an airtime lease agreement with RPN in 2007). Its programming grid primarily includes American programs, and local sports and lifestyle content. On October 31, 2010, it changed some of its programming content to English/Tagalog.

Broadcast company

Solar TV morphed as Solar Television Network, Inc. (STVNI) on January 5, 2010, as the corporate television arm of

, serving as blocktimer of Solar Entertainment's channels to free-to-air broadcasting networks. STVNI later represents Solar Entertainment to acquire 34% of RPN's shares from the Philippine government as part of RPN/IBC privatization in 2011. The new company launched an all talk/news channel Talk TV on March 2, 2011, co-owned by Solar TV itself and SBN while

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replaced Solar TV on RPN. Talk TV would later change its name to

Solar News Channel Solar News Channel (SNC) was a major commercial television network in the Philippines, owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation's arm television subsidiary of Solar Television Network lease with its owner by Radio Philippines Network. Its flags ...

on October 30, 2012. In the last quarter of 2011, Solar TV launched its own news division

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. The programs produced by the new division were manned by former ANC personalities including Jing Magsaysay,

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, Nancy Irlanda, Claire Celdran and Mai Rodriguez. In November 2013, San Miguel Corp. President and COO

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personally tried to acquire the majority stake of STVNI from the Tiengs. Despite the new development, he would settle instead for a minority share of STVNI in September 2014. In the third quarter of 2014, Solar Entertainment chair Wilson Tieng announced that the ALC Group of Companies of former Ambassador Antonio Cabangon-Chua, took over STVNI, as well as its majority stake on RPN. Tieng and (RPN president) Robert Rivera were both resigned as chairman and president, respectively. The selloff of STVNI was also caused by Solar Entertainment's loss of revenue after investing in RPN. Solar TV reflected the change of ownership by reverting all non-SNC channels and assets back to Solar Entertainment, followed by shedding off the ''Solar'' branding in all SNC's programs. The transfer was completed when SNC (which was transferred to RPN in December 2013) was finally rebranded into 9TV on August 23, 2014. On October 14, 2014, Solar TV Network was renamed as Nine Media Corporation, following the agreement between the latter and the

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to use the branding of CNN into its free TV assets of RPN as

, replacing 9TV, which was considered as a transitional brand. CNN Philippines was launched on March 16, 2015. In September 2015, Nine Media Corporation President and CEO Reggie Galura stepped down from his position, and was replaced by Jorge San Agustin as Officer-in-Charge of the network. On October 9, 2016, CNN Philippines Managing Editor

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was appointed as president and CEO of Nine Media Corporation replacing San Agustin.

Corporate Structure

As Solar TV Network

Solar Entertainment Corp. (SEC) and Solar TV (STV), prior to the latter's acquisition by ALC Group of Companies in 2014, are two separate business entities: *SEC is exclusively owned by the Tieng brothers and operates 10 TV networks - ETC, 2nd Avenue, JackTV, JackCITY, Solar Sports, Basketball TV, NBA Premium, Shop TV, The Game Channel and My Movie Channel. It also has activities in film distribution. *STV, which presently runs Solar News Channel, is an incorporation wherein both William Tieng and Wilson Tieng are members of the board of directors.

As Nine Media

Since 2014, Nine Media Corporation is being owned by ALC Group of Companies through its investment unit JRLT-JHI Corporation. While Antonio Cabangon-Chua was sitting as its chairman until his passing in 2016, JRLT-JHI is being owned by his children and relatives: Ferdinand Chua (20%), Rowena Lumague (20%), Candy Co (20%), Jose Wingkee Jr (20%), and Aida Anora (20%). While businessman Ramon Ang reportedly owns a minority share in Nine Media, SEC documents does not shows any Ang's shares with the company. Instead, Ang makes investments through advertisements and paid programming from the San Miguel Group to sole property CNN Philippines.

Broadcast assets

TV channels

(RPN) - (34% share) **

- (joint venture with RPN and Warner Bros. Discovery)- Solar News Channel turns into 9TV
retrieved August 13, 2014

Former divisions, and broadcast assets

* 2nd Avenue - (affiliate with RJTV 29: January 1, 2008 – June 5, 2018; reverted to

) * ETC (now SolarFlix) - (affiliate with SBN 21: January 1, 2008 – March 1, 2011; November 30, 2013 – present /

RPN 9 DZKB-TV, is the flagship TV station of Philippine television network Radio Philippines Network, the official affiliate of CNN Philippines. The station broadcasts in both channel 9 (VHF analog broadcast) and channel 19 (UHF digital test ...

: March 2, 2011 – November 29, 2013; reverted to

) *ETC Productions

Previous or changed ownership television channels

9TV 9TV (formerly branded as Solar News Channel) was a major commercial television network in the Philippines. It was owned by Nine Media Corporation, Nine Media had an airtime agreement as the main content provider of Radio Philippines Network. ...

- (

: August 23, 2014 – March 15, 2015) *

CHASE Chase or CHASE may refer to: Businesses * Chase Bank, a national bank based in New York City, New York * Chase Aircraft (1943–1954), a defunct American aircraft manufacturing company * Chase Coaches, a defunct bus operator in England * Chase C ...

- ( BEAM TV 31: December 24, 2011 – October 19, 2012) * C/S - (

: January 1, 2008 – October 2008) *

C/S 9 C/S (originally known as Crime/Suspense) is an entertainment channel owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation. It shows mostly American crime and suspense dramas, mysteries, reality, science fiction and action shows. It is the successor to Sola ...

- (

: October 4, 2008 – November 28, 2009) * Jack City - ( BEAM TV 31: October 20, 2012 – August 31, 2014 / Cable TV: September 1, 2014 – March 21, 2015; owner of

) *

- (34% joint venture with

: December 1, 2013 – August 22, 2014) / (former owned by

Southern Broadcasting Network Southern Broadcasting Network, Inc. (SBN) is a Filipino-owned media company based radio and television network based in Metro Manila. SBN is a subsidiary of Solar Entertainment Corporation, a Filipino-owned television company managed by t ...

: October 30, 2012 – November 29, 2013) *

- (

: November 29, 2009 – February 25, 2011) * Talk TV - ( SBN 21: March 2, 2011 – October 29, 2012)

References

External links

Media Ownership Monitor Philippines - Media Companies: A Duopoly rules
by VERA Files and

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