DYPT-TV

DYPT-TV (PTV-11 Cebu)
	"Ang Pambansang TV sa Bagong Pilipinas"
Metro Cebu ;
City	Cebu City
Channels	Analog: 11 (VHF); Digital: 42 (UHF) ( ISDB-Tb ) (Test Broadcast); Virtual: 11.01;
Branding	PTV-11 Cebu/PTV-11 Central Visayas
Programming
Affiliations	11.01: PTV ; 11.02: PTV Sports ; 11.03: Test Feed;
Ownership
Owner	People's Television Network, Inc.
History
Founded	September 11, 1963;62 years ago; August 29, 2015;10 years ago
Former call signs	DYMT-TV (1963-1972); DYCW-TV (1973-1986); As GTV/MBS:; DYCB-TV (1978-1986)
Former channel numbers	As GTV/MBS:; 3 (1978-1988)
Former affiliations	Associated Broadcasting Corporation (1963-1972); BBC (1973-1986)
Call sign meaning	DY; People's; Television
Technical information
Licensing authority	NTC
Power	Analog: 10 kW; Digital: 1 kW
ERP	Analog: 30 kW
Transmitter coordinates	10°21′50.6″N123°51′17.4″E / 10.364056°N 123.854833°E
Links
Website	www.ptni.gov.ph ; ptv11cebu.weebly.com

Last updated October 16, 2025

DYPT-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Metro Cebu, Philippines, serving as the Visayas flagship of the government-owned People's Television Network. The station maintains hybrid analog/digital transmitting facility at Sitio Babag, Brgy. Busay, Cebu City.^[1]

History

September 11, 1963 - PTV began its broadcasts in Cebu via Channel 11, a frequency originally owned by Associated Broadcasting Corporation (now TV5 Network, Inc.), with the call sign DYMT-TV until President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law on September 21, 1972.
February 2, 1974 - During the Martial Law era, the station reopened as DYGT-TV and became an owned-and-operated station of the National Media Production Center as Government Television (GTV) under Lito Gorospe and later by then-Press Secretary Francisco Tatad. It was the first television station in Central Visayas.
1978 - DYGT-TV switched affiliation to Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation, with its new call sign DYCW-TV. On the same year, GTV was transferred to Channel 3 under the call sign DYCB-TV, then was renamed Maharlika Broadcasting System (MBS) in 1980.
February 24, 1986 - The station was officially rebranded as People's Television (PTV).
1988 - PTV returned to Channel 11, with Channel 3 being taken over by ABS-CBN. Its call letters were changed to DYPT-TV. Back then, its studios were located at the former NMPC Bldg. along A.C. Cortes Ave., Mandaue (demolished in 2011).
January 15, 2011 - The station suddenly went off the air for facility upgrades.
August 29, 2015 - After 4 years of being silent in the area, PTV-11 Cebu resumed its operations, with the 10,000-watt brand new transmitter from the Advanced Broadcasting Electronics (ABE) Elettronica of Italy, complemented by a 250-foot tower in Sitio Babag, Brgy. Busay, Cebu City, coinciding with the conduct of the APEC Summit in the city.^[2]
June 1, 2018 - PTV Cebu started its ISDB-T digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 42.
December 16, 2021 - PTV Cebu went off the air for the second time following the effects of Typhoon "Rai" (Odette) in Cebu, Bohol, and Leyte, causing the transmitter was struck brought by the said typhoon.
January 2022 - The station returned on-air once again after power was restored in Brgy. Babag.

Digital television

Digital channels

DYPT-TV broadcast its digital signal on UHF Channel 42 (641.143 MHz) and is multiplexed into the following subchannels:

Channel	Video	Aspect	Short name	Programming	Note
11.01	1080i	16:9	PTV HD1	PTV Cebu (Main DYPT-TV programming)	Test Broadcast (1 kW)
11.02	480i		PTV SD2	PTV Sports
11.03	480i		PTV SD3	Test Feed
11.04	240p	4:3	PTV 1seg	PTV	1seg

Areas of coverage

Primary areas

Secondary areas

Portion of Bohol
Portion of Leyte

External links

Radio and TV broadcast stations of Region VII: Cebu province, National Telecommunications Commission (Philippines)

References

↑ "NTC Region 7 Radio and TV Broadcast Station". region7.ntc.gov.ph. September 6, 2023.
↑ "PTV 11 Cebu back on air". Philippine Information Agency . September 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.

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[1] "NTC Region 7 Radio and TV Broadcast Station". region7.ntc.gov.ph. September 6, 2023.

[2] "PTV 11 Cebu back on air". Philippine Information Agency . September 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.

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