C/S (standing for Crime/Suspense, originally used as an on-air brand) was used for several

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entertainment channels owned by the

Solar Entertainment Corporation 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 showed mostly American crime and suspense dramas, mysteries, reality, science fiction and action shows.

History

Solar Entertainment first launched its namesake entertainment cable channel in the early 2000s, one devoted to

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programs. This channel was later known as ''Solar USA'' (the acronym stands for "Ultimate in Suspense and Action"), and then later simply as ''USA''. USA was replaced by two separate channels in 2005. Solar USA's comedy and general entertainment programming was moved to

Jack TV Jack TV (stylised as JACK TV) is an online web portal owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation and based in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila. It was known as a Philippine pay television network mainly offering multi-genre programming from the United ...

, while action and crime dramas were given a new separate channel, Crime/Suspense, later launched in October of that year. As part of a partnership established with the

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, C/S became the on-air brand for its network of over-the-air stations across the Philippines on January 1, 2008. The C/S cable channel was later rebranded as ''

C/S Origin C/S Origin was an entertainment channel that was owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation. The flagship channel of C/S 9 (on free TV owned by RPN). It shows mostly American crime and suspense dramas, science-fiction, mysteries, reality and inve ...

'' in September of the same year, while the RPN network later changed its branding to C/S 9 the next month, and then changed its name to

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 So ...

on November 29, 2009. On December 24, 2011,

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was launched. This is the revival TV network of C/S because of its similar format. On October 20, 2012, it was rebranded as

Jack City Jack City was a Filipino cable and satellite television network based in Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong. Formerly known as Chase, it serves as the spin-off channel to Jack TV. Owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation, the channel is currently bro ...

, carrying the same format. On March 22, 2015, Jack City was rebranded as CT (now defunct).

Programs on C/S

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