DWAC-TV

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DWAC-TV
ABS-CBN Sports and Action 2016 logo.svg
City Quezon City
Channels
BrandingS+A Channel 23
Programming
Affiliations Dark
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedMay 5, 1992;32 years ago (1992-05-05)
First air date
May 5, 1992;32 years ago (1992-05-05)
Last air date
May 5, 2020;4 years ago (2020-05-05) (legislative franchise lapsed)
Former call signs
DWST/DZEE-TV (1992-1996)
Call sign meaning
DW
Arcadio Carandang or AMCARA
(ABS-CBN / AMCARA operations; 1996-2020)
Technical information
Licensing authority
NTC
Power 50 kW (30 kW operational)
ERP 10,000 kW
Links
Website sports.abs-cbn.com

DWAC-TV, Channel 23, 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.

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History

The station was acquired from Ermita Electronics Corporation in July 1996, which initially owned 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 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 the fourth television station in the country to broadcast in stereo (after GMA-7 in 1987, RPN 9 in 1994, and SBN 21 in 1992). 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 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, 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 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.

Expansion to sports programming

In 1998, ABS-CBN, through its sports division, ABS-CBN Sports, used Studio 23 to highlight its own professional basketball league, 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 the PBL.

It carried a wide variety of local sporting competitions, many of which involved neighborhood schools and showcasing budding Filipino sports talents.

Rebrand to ABS-CBN Sports+Action

Sports programming in Channel 23 was fully expanded with the launch of ABS-CBN Sports+Action on January 18, 2014, replacing Studio 23. [1] [2]

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).

Shutdown

On May 5, 2020, S+A Manila went off-air due to the cease and desist order from the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) after its franchise expiration. [3]

On January 5, 2022, its former UHF frequencies (channel 23 and 43) were assigned by NTC to Aliw Broadcasting Corporation (for channel 23) and Swara Sug Media Corporation (for channel 43); [4] the former began conducting test broadcast since May 6, 2022.

Digital television

Digital channels

UHF Channel 43 (647.143 MHz)

Channel Video Aspect Short nameProgrammingNote
1.01 480i 4:3 ABS-CBN ABS-CBN Commercial broadcast
1.02SPORTS+ACTION S+A
1.03CINEMO! Cine Mo! Encrypted
1.04YEY! Yey!
1.05DZMM Teleradyo DZMM TeleRadyo
1.06KBO Kapamilya Box Office Pay per view
1.31 240p ABS-CBN OneSegABS-CBN 1seg broadcast

UHF Channel 16 (485.143 MHz) 1

Channel Video Aspect Short nameProgrammingNote
2.01 480i 4:3 Knowledge Channel Knowledge Channel Test broadcast
2.02 16:9 O SHOPPING O Shopping
2.03 4:3 ASIANOVELA CHANNEL Asianovela Channel Encrypted (on free trial) 2
2.04MOVIE CENTRAL Movie Central
2.05JEEPNEY TV Jeepney TV
2.06MYX Myx
2.31 240p ASIANOVELA ONESEGAsianovela Channel1seg broadcast

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