In the Philippines, Sky Cable, Destiny Cable, and Cablelink are the primary cable operators. [1] There are also local regional companies, such as Parasat Cable TV. [2]
Sky Cable is a cable television service of Sky Cable Corporation. Its covers areas across the country with both digital and few analog services, and it has 700,000 subscribers controlling 45% of the cable TV market.
Destiny Cable is a direct-to-home cable television subscription service based in Quezon City. Destiny Cable is the 2nd largest cable TV provider in the Philippines. It is owned by Sky Cable Corporation.
Cablelink is a subscription-based cable antenna television system operator and broadband Internet service provider in the Philippines which commenced its CATV operation in 1995. It is owned and operated by Cable Link and Holdings Corporation. Currently, it operates in the southern part of Metropolitan Manila, specifically in the areas of Las Piñas City, Parañaque City, Muntinlupa City, Pasig City, Pasay City, Mandaluyong City, Manila, San Juan City, Pateros, Taguig City, Cavite, Tarlac (Concepcion), and some parts in Quezon City In September 2004, Cablelink introduced its own high-speed cable Internet known as i-Blaze Cable Internet.
Direct-to-home satellite television is offered through G Sat, [3] Cignal, [4] and Sky Direct. [5]
G Sat is a subscription-based direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service commercially available in the Philippines. G Sat is owned by Global Satellite Technologies Services, Inc. (GSTS), a subsidiary of First United Broadcasting Corporation, registered in the Philippines with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Cignal is a Philippine satellite television and IPTV provider, owned by Cignal TV Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the MediaQuest Holdings Inc. under the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund.
Sky Direct is a direct-broadcast satellite subscription television service in the Philippines owned and operated by Sky, a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. Sky Cable has been eyeing for a DBS service and considered on acquiring Dream Satellite TV from Antonio O. Cojuangco, Jr. The acquisition of Dream was reported to have reached an advanced stage but for some undisclosed reasons, the deal was not sealed. Sky's entry to the DBS market was hindered by various oppositions from the industry, citing legal issues and the slow growth of the pay TV market in the country. On December 23, 2015, Sky was granted by the NTC a provisional authority to operate and maintain a DBS service in 251 cities and municipalities in the country for a period of 18 months. Sky Direct offers both prepaid and postpaid packages with exclusive channels from ABS-CBN and Creative Programs such as ABS-CBN HD, ABS-CBN News Channel, ABS-CBN Sports+Action HD, Cinema One, Jeepney TV, Metro Channel, Liga, and Myx. As of the March of 2019, Sky Direct has over 1 million subscribers.
Television in the Philippines was introduced in 1953. But even before that, during the late 1940s, a number of academic experiments had been done and replicated by Filipino engineers and students.
ETC is a commercial broadcasting television network in the Philippines owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation through its subsidiary Southern Broadcasting Network. Its free-to-air broadcast is carried by SBN's flagship station DWCP-TV Channel 21 Metro Manila. The channel can also be seen nationwide in all SBN provincial TV stations. The channel is also carried by cable/satellite providers, including Sky Cable/Destiny Cable, Cablelink, Sky Direct, Cignal and SatLite, along with various provincial cable operators and through online streaming.
Palawan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), also known by its call sign DYPR, was the first local radio station to serve the island of Palawan, the Philippines. It was established in 1965, in the capital Puerto Princesa City, by Ramon Oliveros Decolongon.
Solar Entertainment Corporation is a Filipino media company founded and owned by the siblings of the Tieng family which also engages in property development, and distribution of imported products and generic pharmaceutical products.
BEAM Channel 31 (DWKC-TV) is the flagship television station of Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, Inc. in the Philippines. Its transmitter is located at Palos Verdes Subdivision, Brgy Sta. Cruz, Sumulong Highway, Antipolo City, province of Rizal.
DZCE-TV is the flagship station of the Philippine Television Network INC TV. Now on its 6th programming season, INCTV is the flagship UHF television station of Christian Era Broadcasting Service International, a broadcast ministry of the independent Philippine Christian church, the Iglesia ni Cristo. INC TV studios and transmitters are located at Redeemer Street, Milton Hills Subdivision, Brgy. New Era, Quezon City.
AXN Asia is a pay television channel owned by Sony Pictures Television.
In the Philippines, digital terrestrial television (DTT) services are in development by the major broadcasting companies of the Philippines.
Dream Satellite TV was the first all-digital Direct-To-Home (DTH) television broadcasting service via satellite in the Philippines. Broadcasting from the Dream Broadcast Center located at the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga. Content is received from program providers, compressed and broadcast via Koreasat 5 in DVB-S and NTSC color format exclusively to its subscribers using the Integrated Receiver-Decoder and the Conax/Nagravision 3 Encryption System.
MediaQuest Holdings, Inc. is a Philippine-based media conglomerate that provides radio and television broadcasting, as well as direct-to-home satellite services and print media. Though an affiliate of telecommunications company PLDT, MediaQuest is owned by the former's Beneficial Trust Fund, a retirement pension plan funded by PLDT through its Philippine Depository Receipts. PLDT does not directly own any media property as the current 1987 Constitution states that media companies should be 100% owned by Filipinos; one of the PLDT's major stockholder, First Pacific Group, is foreign-owned. It owns most of the media establishments such as TV5 Network (TV5), Nation Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), Cignal, 51% interest in The Philippine Star, 70% interest in Business World Publishing Corporation (BusinessWorld), and 30% in Unitel Group.
Aksyon TV was a Philippine free-to-air television network. It was a joint venture of Nation Broadcasting Corporation and TV5 Network, Inc., both under PLDT media arm MediaQuest Holdings. Its programs were primarily produced by TV5's divisions News5 and ESPN5. AksyonTV formerly broadcasts terrestrially through DWNB-TV in Metro Manila, as well as on UHF channel 29 in Cebu, Davao and other relay stations, and on a digital subchannel via channel 5.2 in Metro Manila. It occupies the frequency previously used by MTV Philippines, a subsidiary of MTV Networks Asia Pacific until 2006.
Nick Jr. is an educational cable TV channel aimed at younger children. Operated by MTV Networks Asia Pacific and owned by Viacom International. On December 24, 2010 Nick Jr. South East Asia was launched in New Zealand on SKY TV, almost 4 months before its official launch in Asia.
Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, Inc. (BEAM) is a telecommunications company in the Philippines with primary focus on UHF broadcasting and digital terrestrial television for the convergence of multimedia. It is owned by Bethlehem Holdings, Inc., a media investment company of Globe Telecom through its Retirement Fund group.
Sky Cable Corporation, doing business as Sky, is a Filipino telecommunications company based in Diliman, Quezon City. A subsidiary of the media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation, the company offers broadband, cable and satellite television services under the Sky Cable and Sky Direct brands. The company was founded on June 6, 1990 by Benpres Holdings Corporation as Central CATV, Inc.
Jack City was a Filipino cable and satellite television network based in Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City. Formerly known as Chase, it serves as the spin-off channel to Jack TV. Owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation, the channel is currently broadcast on Cignal Digital TV channel 22, Destiny Cable channel 64 (analog) & channel 138 (digital), Cablelink channel 40, and SkyCable channel 138 (digital) and other cable operators in the Philippines, and is also available on live streaming via video-on-demand service Blink.
Global Cable is a cable company in the Philippines.
One News is a Philippine pay television news channel that was launched on May 2018 exclusively on satellite provider Cignal. One News is the first Cignal channel launched under the One branding, along with the sports channel One Sports and Filipino-language news channel One PH.
Cignal TV, Inc. is a Filipino media and telecommunications firm in the Philippines. A wholly owned subsidiary of the media conglomerate MediaQuest Holdings under the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund, the firm operates its pay television services, pay television networks, and film entertainment production. Cignal TV also operates majority of regional stations affiliated with TV5 Network.