TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation (TAP DMV) is a Philippine

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company which oversees the operations of its 24-hour linear television channels and a

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. It is founded by Renen and Celinda De Guia (owners of live events company Ovation Productions) and former

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chief operating officer Peter Chan Liong. TAP DMV owns 8 pay television channels and has programming/coverage rights agreement with international broadcasters such as

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, Endeavor, and

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History

TAP DMV was founded on February 1, 2018. It launched EDGEsport Philippines on the same year under a branding license agreement from its owner

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. It aired action-centric and combat sports. In July 2021, TAP DMV signed a licensing rights with Filipino boxing icon

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to secure exclusive broadcast rights of his recently concluded bout against Yordenis Ugas via its own cable channels. In August 2021, TAP DMV was awarded the local rights to the

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games. In August 2023, TAP DMV partnered with

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 ...

, and launched over-the-top (OTT) streaming service named BlastTV.

Assets

Channels

Current channels

TAP Edge TAP Edge (stylized as tap EDGE) is a 24-hour Philippine pay television channel owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. The channel airs a variety of entertainment genres focusing on action/suspense and crime dramas. History Prior to t ...

- Drama-centric entertainment channel. It airs canned shows from the U.S. focusing on action and crime/suspense drama series, and news/current affairs. Formerly a dedicated EDGEsport and other action sports programming channel. *

TAP TV TAP TV (stylized as tap TV) is a 24-hour Philippine pay television channel owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. It is launched on April 14, 2019. A former sports channel, it currently broadcasts as a general entertainment channel ...

- Lifestyle and general entertainment channel. It airs canned shows from the U.S. focusing on variety and talk shows, reality drama, and movies. The channel was originally a female-centric sports channel known as TAP Sports 2 and later TAP W. *

TAP Movies TAP Movies (stylized as tap MOVIES) is a Philippine pay television channel dedicated to Hollywood films owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. It was launched on October 1, 2021. Programming Much like other English-language movie chann ...

- All-movie channel. It airs mainstream Hollywood films from

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and other film studios. It was Launched in October 2021. * TAP Action Flix - dedicated movie channel which currently airs action, crime and thriller movies. It was launched in October 2021. *

TAP Sports TAP Sports (stylized as tap Sports) is a Philippine pay television network of sports channels owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. It was launched on April 14, 2019, under two separate channels carried by Sky Cable, and was later re ...

- 24-hour sports channel. Formerly known as TAP Sports 1, the channel carries a variety of sporting events such as the

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, and

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among others. *

Premier Sports Premier Sports is a group of pay sports television channels owned by SSBL Limited that are available in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Premier Sports holds exclusive live rights to La Liga, Scottish League Cup, Elite Ice Hockey League, NHL a ...

- Complimentary channel of the TAP Sports network. The channel will air top-notching international sport events from

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and the FIVB among others. It was launched in October 2021. * Premier Sports 2 - Counterpart channel to Premier Sports. It broadcasts all of the

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and WTA tournaments throughout the year, as well as rugby union and athletics. The channel was originally a dedicated tennis channel known as Premier Tennis where it broadcast ATP and WTA tournaments. * Premier Football - Dedicated football (soccer) channel. It broadcasts selected coverages of international football leagues, including the UEFA,

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and

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among others. * Blast Sports - Free-to-air digital channel enacted as a spillover/overflow of sporting events aired on TAP Sports and Premier Sports. It is only available as subchannel on

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's digital terrestrial broadcast on a limited hour basis in selected cities in the country, and on a 24-hour broadcast via Blast TV streaming service.

Distributed channels

* EDGEsport *

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* tvN Asia * tvN Movies Pinoy

Former channels

* EDGEsport Philippines * Premier Tennis * TAP Sports 1 * TAP Sports 2 * TAP W

TAP Go

TAP Go was TAP DMV's official over-the-top (OTT) app and browser-based subscription service which allows users to stream Live TV Channels and Video On Demand content over the internet. It contained

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of the company's cable channels and selected live sporting events, restricted to Philippine territory only. In November 2020, TAP Go suspended its operations indefinitely to give way for system maintenance, although its sister site (PremierFootball.ph) continues to operate. The service was resumed on August 14, 2021. The service was relaunched in October 2022 with additional live TV channels from third-party content providers like Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific,

, Rock Entertainment Holdings, and

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. In addition, TAP Go has also offers in-house

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/linear channels through a partnership with

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, namely: Laff, Crime TV, Comic U, and Game Show Central. The service was discontinued on November 3, 2023 when TAP Go merged its content into BlastTV.

Blast TV

Blast TV is a over-the-top (OTT) service in partnership with Converge ICT Solutions Inc. which provided shows and channels with content from NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, MGM Television, Lionsgate, and CJ ENM. The service offers TV channels of different genres as well as online Video On Demand and catch up content. The service is also the exclusive home of

in the Philippines, which operates both as a linear channel and a VOD content library from NBCUniversal. The service is available for subscription and is included at no extra cost for Converge FiberX subscribers (including Surf2Sawa and Bida Fiber plans) as well as for Globe At Home broadband subscribers (both Prepaid and Postpaid).

References

External links

* {{VOD services Companies based in Mandaluyong Television networks in the Philippines Mass media companies of the Philippines Entertainment companies of the Philippines Mass media companies established in 2018 Philippine companies established in 2018 Privately held companies of the Philippines