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Knowledge Channel
Knowledge Channel (abbreviated as KCh and stylized in all capital letters) is a Philippine free-to-air television channel owned by ABS-CBN that consists of educational and informative programs. The channel is available on digital TV via BEAM TV, Sky Cable, Sky Direct, Converge Vision, Cignal, Parasat Cable TV, G Sat, Cablelink, Planet Cable and other cable providers. It also livestreams online via iWantTFC while a video on demand service is available on YouTube. History Elvira "Rina" M. López-Bautista established the non-profit organization Sky Foundation, Inc. in 1996; it would later be renamed to Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc. (KCFI) in 2003. The Knowledge Channel started broadcasting on November 18, 1996 with 18 hours of educational programs on cable television that supplemented the curriculum of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (later the Department of Education). The foundation entered into a 10-year memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inquirer 990 Television
Inquirer 990 Television was a Philippine terrestrial television news channel owned by Trans-Radio Broadcasting Corporation (a subsidiary of the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer''). It was the television counterpart of radio news station DZIQ 990, broadcasting in the AM band and was the fifth station to simulcast its radio stream to television, after DZMM (DZMM TeleRadyo and PRTV Prime Media), DZRH ( DZRH TV), DWAN (DWAN 1206 TV), DZRJ (Radyo Bandido TV), DWIZ (ALIW Channel 23 and DWIZ News TV), DZRB (Radyo Pilipinas 1 Television), DZRV (Radyo Veritas TeleRadyo), Abante Radyo 1494 (Abante Teletabloid), DZME 1530 (for DZME Radyo TV) and 105.9 True FM (One PH and True TV). Originally on live streaming, it became available as a terrestrial subchannel on BEAM TV, and some programs are also available on analog free TV Channel 31. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapamilya Channel
Kapamilya Channel () is a 24-hour Filipino pay television network owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation, a subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation. Its headquarters is located at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City and serves as the primary television network of ABS-CBN Corporation. Kapamilya Channel launched on June 13, 2020, replacing the free-to-air ABS-CBN after its broadcast renewal franchise expired on May 5, 2020, and the eventual denial on July 10, 2020. The channel airs a mix of ABS-CBN programs, including those that aired before and after its launch. Overview Kapamilya Channel is available through most cable providers affiliated with the Philippine Cable and Telecommunications Association (PCTA), including ABS-CBN's Sky Cable, Converge ICT's Vision, and Streamtech's Planet Cable. It is also accessible via direct broadcast satellite television service providers such as Sky Direct (until June 30, 2020), G Sat, and, since October 21, 2020, through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Converge Vision
Converge Vision, marketed as Vision (in uppercase), is a digital Internet Protocol television (IPTV) service provider in the Philippines. Launched in 2021, Vision is owned by Pacific Kabelnet Holdings and co-partners with affiliate Converge ICT Converge ICT Solutions Inc., doing business as Converge (also known as ComClark in Pampanga), is a telecommunication service provider in the Philippines. It operates fiber optic broadband networks, Internet Protocol television (marketed as Co .... It is also available in key provinces marketed as Converge FiberTV. History In 2019, Converge first launched Freedom, an add-on streaming service offering cable channels for its FiberX subscribers in Metro Manila and Luzon. On July 28, 2021, Converge officially launched Vision, a new IPTV platform offering cable channels using its fiber broadband internet connection. Like its predecessor Freedom, the service is initially an add-on option to Converge's FiberX subscription at a separated mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Direct
Sky Direct (stylized as SKYdirect) is a direct-broadcast satellite subscription television service in the Philippines. From its founding in 2016, it was owned and operated by Sky, a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. Sky Cable had been eyeing for a DBS service and considered on acquiring Dream Satellite TV from Antonio O. Cojuangco, Jr. The acquisition of Dream was reported to have reached an advanced stage but for some undisclosed reasons, the deal was not sealed. Sky's entry to the DBS market was hindered by various oppositions from the industry, citing legal issues and the slow growth of the pay TV market in the country. On December 23, 2015, Sky was granted by the NTC a provisional authority to operate and maintain a DBS service in 251 cities and municipalities in the country for a period of 18 months. Sky Direct offered both prepaid and postpaid packages with exclusive channels from ABS-CBN and Creative Programs. As of March 2019, Sky Direct had over 1 million subscribers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Cable
Sky Cable (stylized as SKYcable) is a cable television service of Sky Cable Corporation in the Philippines. It covers areas across the country with both digital and analog cable services, and it has 700,000 subscribers, controlling 45% of the cable TV market. History SkyCable started operating its community antenna television system in the Philippines on January 26, 1992, providing cable Internet, VoIP services and digital cable TV service. On June 6, 1990, Sky Cable Corporation was incorporated as Central CATV, Inc. On March 25, 1991, Sky Vision Corporation, a holding company incorporated with the primary purpose of buying and owning stocks of Central CATV, Inc. was founded. At that time, its ventures consisted of cable television (SkyCable and Sun Cable), communication, system, television media, shopping network (Sky Mall) and film distribution (Sky Jemah). It is owned 18.8% by ABS-CBN Corporation and 78% by Lopez Inc.http://www.pse.com.ph/html/ListedCompanies/pdf/2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free-to-air Television
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the FTA receiver, appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a Pay television, subscription, other ongoing cost, or one-off fee (e.g., pay-per-view). In the traditional sense, this is carried on Radio, terrestrial radio signals and received with an antenna. FTA also refers to channels and broadcasters providing content for which no subscription is expected, even though they may be delivered to the viewer/listener by another carrier for which a subscription is required, e.g., cable television, the Internet, or satellite television, satellite. These carriers may be mandated (or OPT) in some geographies to deliver FTA channels even if a premium subscription is not present (providing the necessary equipment is still available), especially where FTA channels are expected to be used for emergency broadca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in Island groups of the Philippines, three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. With a population of over 110 million, it is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, twelfth-most-populous country. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south. It shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. It has Ethnic groups in the Philippines, diverse ethnicities and Culture o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Letters
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally ''#Majuscule, majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally ''#Minuscule, minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper- and lowercase have two parallel sets of letters: each in the majuscule set has a counterpart in the minuscule set. Some counterpart letters have the same shape, and differ only in size (e.g. ), but for others the shapes are different (e.g., ). The two case variants are alternative representations of the same letter: they have the same name and pronunciation and are typically treated identically when sorting in alphabetical order. Letter case is generally applied in a mixed-case fashion, with both upper and lowercase letters appearing in a given piece of text for legibility. The choice of case is often denoted by the grammar of a language or by the conventions of a particular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cignal Play
Cignal TV, Inc. (formerly known as GV Broadcasting System), also known by its legal trading name Mediascape Inc., is a Filipino media and telecommunications firm in the Philippines. A wholly owned subsidiary of the media company MediaQuest Holdings under the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund, the firm operates its pay television services (Cignal and SatLite), subscription television networks ( One News, One Sports+, BuKo, Sari-Sari Channel, NBA TV Philippines, PBA Rush, and UAAP Varsity Channel), television and film entertainment production ( Cignal Entertainment), and fiber broadband internet ( Red Fiber). Cignal TV also operates in sixteen affiliate free television stations TV5 (with its main frequencies owned by its sister company) and one affiliate free television station One Sports (with its owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation). In addition, under the Mediascape name, it operates UHF 51 via DTT in Metro Manila and a majority of thirteen regional DTV stations affiliated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IWant TFC
iWantTFC (formerly known as iWant TV and iWant) is a Filipino over-the-top media service and production company owned and operated by ABS-CBN Digital Media, a division of ABS-CBN Corporation. It was formed in 2020 through the merger of two streaming services iWant and TFC Online. In addition to offering on-demand contents of ABS-CBN, iWantTFC also live streams linear channels including Kapamilya Channel, DZMM TeleRadyo, ANC and Knowledge Channel. The service is available worldwide, primarily catering to Filipino audiences. It is also the replacement for Sky On Demand of Sky Cable since September 1, 2020. History ABS-CBNnow! (2003–2010) iWantTFC traced its origins and was first launched in 2003 as ABS-CBNnow!, a service primarily focusing to the OFWs where they can watch ABS-CBN local programs (such as ''TV Patrol'', '' Morning Girls'', '' MTB'', ''Maalaala Mo Kaya'', ''Wansapanataym'', '' The Buzz'', and '' Magandang Gabi... Bayan'') anywhere in the world using a PC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Favorite Music Radio
Philippine Collective Media Corporation (PCMC; officially known in their documents as Philippine CollectiveMedia Corporation) is a Philippine broadcast media company. Its headquarters are located in Barangay South Triangle, Quezon City, with offices in Makati and Tacloban. It owns a number of radio stations across the country under the FM Radio Philippines (Favorite Music Radio) network and AM radio station DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 (under joint-venture with ABS-CBN), as well as television stations PRTV Prime Media and PRTV. History PCMC was founded on May 21, 2008. It was signed into law under Republic Act 9773 in 2009, initially its broadcast operations only limited covering the Eastern Visayas region. In April 25, 2011, PCMC launched THREE stations in Tacloban: AM station DYBR (discontinued in 2013 following the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan), FM station DYDR, and the first local independent TV station PRTV. The company's legislative franchise was later amended in 2020 under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Filipino Channel
The Filipino Channel, commonly known as TFC, is a global subscription television network owned and operated by the Philippine media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. Its programming is composed primarily of imported programs produced and distributed by ABS-CBN Studios and ABS-CBN News, targeting the Filipino diaspora. Available globally on various television platforms, TFC launched on September 24, 1994, and was the world's first trans-Pacific Asian broadcaster. As of 2016, The Filipino Channel has over three million Filipino subscribers worldwide in over 40 countries across 4 continents, most of whom are in the United States, Guam, Saipan, Middle East (including Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates), Europe (including Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom), South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Alaska State, Canada, Hawaii, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
