This is a list of assets owned by ABS-CBN Corporation , a Filipino media and entertainment conglomerate based in Quezon City. [1]
Corporate name | Place of incorporation | Principal activities | Functional currency | Percentage of ownership |
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ABS-CBN Australia Pty. Ltd. | Victoria, Australia | Content development and distribution | AUD | 100% |
ABS-CBN Canada, ULC | Canada | Content development and distribution | CAD | 100% |
ABS-CBN Canada Remittance, Inc. | Canada | Services - money remittance | CAD | 100% |
ABS-CBN Center for Communication Arts, Inc. | Philippines | Education/Training | PHP | 100% |
ABS-CBN Convergence, Inc. | Philippines | Telecommunications | PHP | 69.3% |
ABS-CBN Europe Ltd. | United Kingdom | Content development and distribution | GBP | 100% |
ABS-CBN Europe Remittance, Inc. | United Kingdom | Services - money remittance | GBP | 100% |
ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc. (Star Cinema/ABS-CBN Films) | Philippines | Film production and distribution | PHP | 100% |
ABS-CBN Global Cargo Corporation | Philippines | Non-vessel operations common carrier | PHP | 100% |
ABS-CBN Global Ltd. | Cayman Islands | Holding company | USD | 100% |
ABS-CBN Global Hungary Kft. | Budapest, Hungary | Holding company | USD | 100% |
ABS-CBN Global Netherlands B.V. | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Intermediate holding and financing company | EUR | 100% |
ABS-CBN Global Remittance, Inc. | California, USA | Services - money remittance | USD | 100% |
ABS-CBN Integrated and Strategic Property Holdings, Inc. | Philippines | Real estate | PHP | 100% |
ABS-CBN International, Inc. | California, USA | Content development and distribution | USD | 100% |
ABS-CBN Japan, Inc. | Japan | Content development and distribution | JPY | 100% |
ABS-CBN Middle East Free Zone LLC | Dubai, UAE | Content development and distribution | AED | 100% |
ABS-CBN Middle East LLC | Dubai, UAE | Trading | AED | 100% |
ABS-CBN Publishing, Inc. | Philippines | Print publishing | PHP | 100% |
ABS-CBN Shared Service Center Pte. Ltd. | Singapore | Services - support | SGD | 100% |
ABS-CBN Studios, Inc. | Philippines | Production facility | PHP | 100% |
ABS-CBN Telecom North America, Inc. | California, USA | Telecommunications | USD | 100% |
ABS-CBN Themed Experiences, Inc. | Philippines | Attraction center | PHP | 100% |
ABS-CBN Theme Parks and Resorts Holdings, Inc. | Philippines | Holding company | PHP | 100% |
Bisaya Cable Television Network, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Bright Moon Cable Networks, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Cavity Cable Corporation | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Cebu Cable Television, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 57.4% |
Cepsil Consultancy and Management Corporation | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Cinescreen, Inc. | Philippines | Theater operation | PHP | 100% |
Columbus Technologies, Inc. | Philippines | Holding company | PHP | 70% |
Creative Programs, Inc. | Philippines | Content development and distribution | PHP | 100% |
Davao Cableworld Network, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Discovery Mactan Cable, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 41.6% |
E-Money Plus, Inc. | Philippines | Services - money remittance | PHP | 100% |
First Ilocandia CATV, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 54.9% |
HM Cable Networks, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
HM CATV, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Home-Lipa Cable, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 35.6% |
Hotel Interactive Systems, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Iconnect Convergence, Inc. | Philippines | Service - call center | PHP | 100% |
Isla Cable TV, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
JMY Advantage Corporation | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 56.4% |
Mactan CATV Network, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 56.6% |
Medianow Strategies, Inc. | Philippines | Marketing, sales, and advertising | PHP | 79.7% |
Moonsat Cable Television, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Pacific CATV, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 58% |
Pilipino Cable Corporation | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Play Innovations, Inc. | Philippines | Theme park | PHP | 73% |
Play Innovations Hungary Kft. | Budapest, Hungary | Theme park | USD | 73% |
Professional Services for Television & Radio, Inc. | Philippines | Services - production | PHP | 100% |
Rosetta Holdings Corporation | Philippines | Holding company | PHP | 100% |
Sarimanok News Network, Inc. | Philippines | Content development and distribution | PHP | 100% |
Sapientis Holdings Corporation | Philippines | Holding company | PHP | 100% |
Satellite Cable TV, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Suburban Cable Network, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 54.8% |
Sunvision Cable, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Sun Cable Holdings, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Sun Cable Systems Davao, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Sky Cable Corporation | Philippines | Telecommunications | PHP | 59.4% |
Sky Vision Corporation | Philippines | Holding company | PHP | 75% |
Tarlac Cable Television Network, Inc. | Philippines | Cable telecommunication | PHP | 59.4% |
Telemondial Holdings, Inc. | Philippines | Holding company | PHP | 59.4% |
The Big Dipper Digital Content & Design, Inc. | Philippines | Digital content archiving and licensing | PHP | 100% |
TV Food Chefs, Inc. | Philippines | Services - food and restaurant | PHP | 100% |
Here is a list of companies where ABS-CBN holds economic interest:
Corporate name | Place of incorporation | Principal activities | Functional currency | Percentage of interest |
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ALA Sports Promotions International, Inc. | Philippines | Sports promotion | PHP | 44% |
Daum Kakao (Philippines) Corporation | Philippines | Services - messaging app | PHP | 50% |
Star Cinema Productions, Inc. | Philippines | Film production | PHP | 45% |
The Flagship, Inc. | Philippines | Services - post production/visual effects | PHP | 40% |
Transmission Specialists, Inc. | Philippines | Services - Transmitter installation and maintenance | PHP | 35% |
ABS-CBN reports its business into several categories or business segments. Listed below are the active products and services operating under these segments:
ABS-CBN Corporation is a Filipino media company based in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is the Philippines' largest entertainment and media conglomerate in terms of revenue, operating income, net income, assets, equity, market capitalization, and number of employees. ABS-CBN was formed by the merger of Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) and Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN).
The Filipino Channel, commonly known as TFC, is a 24-hour global subscription television network based in Daly City, California with studio in Redwood City, California and offices in Africa, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, UAE, Ethiopia, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Middle East, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. It is owned and operated by the Filipino media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. Its programming is composed primarily of imported programs from Filipino cable channel Kapamilya Channel and programs produced and distributed by ABS-CBN Entertainment (entertainment) and ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, while the ABS-CBN television network is currently inactive due to its shutdown.
ABS-CBN News Channel, commonly known as ANC, is a 24-hour Philippine pay television news channel. It was launched in 1996 as the first all-news network in English language. The majority of its programs are produced by ABS-CBN News. The channel is broadcast on terrestrial television in Guam through Dededo's channel 22. ANC is being broadcast from the ANC studio in Newsroom & Studio 7 in ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in the Philippines. An international feed called ANC Global is also available worldwide as part of TFC premium channels via cable, satellite, iWantTFC and TFC IPTV.
ABS-CBN is a Philippine commercial broadcast network and syndication, program distributor, and production company that serves as the flagship property of ABS-CBN Corporation, a company under the Lopez Group. It formerly operated as a free-to-air television network. The network is headquartered at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City, with additional offices and production facilities in 25 major cities including Baguio, Naga, Bacolod, Iloilo, Cebu, and Davao. ABS-CBN's production and post-production facility is located at the Horizon IT Park in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan which opened in 2018. ABS-CBN was colloquially referred to as the Kapamilya Network; this branding was originally introduced in 1999 and was officially introduced in 2003 during the celebration of its 50th anniversary and was used until its May 5, 2020 shutdown. During its shutdown, ABS-CBN's branding changed to Kapamilya Forever in support for the network's franchise renewal on May 13, 2020. ABS-CBN is the largest media company in the country in terms of assets, manpower, and international coverage. As of 2020, the terrestrial broadcasting operations of the network is indefinitely suspended due to lack of license and franchise, but broadcasting activities continued via online, cable and satellite, streaming platforms, and other free-to-air terrestrial television.
Creative Programs, Inc., also known as CPI, is a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation that operates and distributes pay TV channels and provides pay-per-view services to direct-to-home satellite and cable television providers in the Philippines. Since 2019, CPI also engages in book and magazine publishing through its subsidiary ABS-CBN Publishing, following their merger.
News Patrol is an hourly news bulletin of Kapamilya Channel which was aired from September 5, 2005, to May 5, 2020, replacing ABS-CBN News Advisory at the former ABS-CBN. The news bulletin was suspended on May 5, 2020, after ABS-CBN was forced to cease and desist its free TV broadcasting operations given by the order of the NTC. On May 8, 2020, News Patrol continued broadcast on cable channels TeleRadyo, ANC, Cine Mo!, TFC, online via ABS-CBN News' website, Facebook, YouTube and iWantTFC. It also served as the main newscast for Kapamilya Channel until it was replaced by a TV Patrol simulcast.
Kapamilya Channel is a 24-hour Philippine pay television network owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation, a company under the Lopez Group. The network is headquartered at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City where it started broadcasting on June 13, 2020, at 5:30 a.m. with Kapamilya Daily Mass as its first program also marking its parent company's 74th anniversary. A separate high definition 1080i resolution channel began broadcasting the same day. The network serves as the replacement of the main terrestrial ABS-CBN network after ceasing its free-to-air broadcast operations as ordered by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and Solicitor General Jose Calida on May 5, 2020, due to the expiration of its legislative franchise. It carries most of programs that ABS-CBN aired prior to the shutdown. Its studios are located at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Sergeant Esguerra Avenue, Barangay South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City.
TeleRadyo is a Philippine pay television channel owned by the ABS-CBN Corporation under the ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs brand, and is available on cable providers throughout the Philippines. TeleRadyo is also included as an exclusive (free-to-view) digital subchannel on digital terrestrial television via the ABS-CBN TVplus service. TeleRadyo is also simulcast via The Filipino Channel (TFC) and it can be heard and viewed online via DZMM's YouTube channel, ABS-CBN Radio Service App and iWant TFC. The channel was previously used to simulcast the programs of ABS-CBN's flagship AM radio station, DZMM 630. At 8:20 PM on May 5, 2020, the station went off the air due to a cease and desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission together with ABS-CBN, S+A, and MOR Philippines. After DZMM 630 kHz was shut down, DZMM TeleRadyo was renamed simply as TeleRadyo. Although it also went off-air a few minutes after, the channel went back on-air and online on May 8, 2020, resuming the programming of the former DZMM. On June 28, 2021, Teleradyo launched a high-definition feed on YouTube and Facebook while selected shows are being broadcast on Kapamilya Channel and The Filipino Channel in HD.
Rated Korina is a Philippine television newscast and Magazine show produced by Brightlight Productions and associated by ABS-CBN, hosted by Korina Sanchez. It currently broadcast via Cignal TV's One PH and TV5 and via ABS-CBN's Kapamilya Channel, ZOE Broadcasting Network's A2Z, Kapamilya Online Live, worldwide via The Filipino Channel and on streaming platform iWantTFC. This is the first time in a year that Rated Korina will air again on ABS-CBN's temporary replacement channel Kapamilya Channel and it's other platforms.
iWant TFC, a merged service of iWant and TFC Online, is a Filipino over-the-top content platform and production company owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation. iWant TFC also offers live video streamings from various sources including media made for the Kapamilya Channel, The Filipino Channel, ANC, and TeleRadyo and on-demand contents of ABS-CBN on various platform. The service is available worldwide, primarily catering to a Filipino audience. The service is also a replacement for Sky On Demand of Sky Cable on September 1, 2020.
Cine Mo! is a Philippine pay television channel owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation and ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc. and it was one of the former freemium channels of ABS-CBN TVplus since 2015. The programming consists of local films and foreign movies.
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Pantawid ng Pag-ibig: At Home Together Concert is a six-hour Philippine benefit concert television special held on March 22, 2020, in support of ABS-CBN Foundation's efforts in helping those heavily affected by the 2020 Luzon enhanced community quarantine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. Hosted by TV Patrol Weekend news anchors Alvin Elchico and Zen Hernandez, the virtual concert featured musical performances and appearances by talents from ABS-CBN, appearing from their respective homes. The special aired on ABS-CBN and several of its sister broadcast and cable channels, radio stations, and digital streaming platforms. The special was also aired on other stations that are members of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas.
Sunday 'Kada is a Philippine sketch comedy variety show broadcast on TV5. The show premiered on October 18, 2020 in the 3 p.m. timeslot following its companion program I Got You as part of the network's Sunday afternoon programming block. Sunday 'Kada serves as a successor to the defunct ABS-CBN gag show Banana Sundae, featuring much of its former cast, including Jayson Gainza, Ritz Azul, Wacky Kiray, and many others. On June 13, 2021, the pilot episode of the show became available on Brightlight Productions' programming affiliate ABS-CBN's iWantTFC and worldwide via The Filipino Channel.
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