Radio Philippines Network, Inc. (RPN) is a Philippine television and radio company based in Quezon City. It is currently owned through majority share by Nine Media Corporation of the ALC Group of Companies; along with other stakeholders Presidential Communications Office (PCO) and Far East Managers and Investors Inc., and private sector. The network's main offices and transmitter is located at Panay Avenue, Brgy. South Triangle also in Quezon City. Founded by Roberto Benedicto and prior to its privatization, it was the sister station of current government owned and controlled Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation and formerly an attached agency of the now-PCO, despite having 20% minority stake in ownership.
RPN NewsWatch is a Philippine flagship television news program that aired on Radio Philippines Network (RPN) from June 1, 1970 until October 29, 2012. It was the longest-running English-language newscast of RPN. The program had a complicated history, undergoing several name changes until it was cancelled in 2012.
CNN Philippines Sports Desk was a Philippine sports news television program broadcast by CNN Philippines. It is CNN Philippines' go-to program for all-sports news, specials, and interviews with sports personalities here and around the world, hosted by sports journalist Charles Tiu on primetime and Andrei Felix on weekday mornings. Sports Desk airs on weekdays at 10am and 10pm, with a weekend recap edition on Saturdays at 12:30pm. on May 1, 2023, the show will air on Primetime Weeknights at 8:30 pm.
The World Tonight is a Philippine television English-language late-night newscast broadcast by Kapamilya Channel and ANC. It was formerly the English language late-night newscast of ABS-CBN from November 21, 1966, to September 22, 1972, and was originally anchored by Hal Bowie and Henry Halasan. Its most known anchor, however, was Angelo Castro Jr. who anchored the newscast from its revival in 1986 to 2009, with a short interval for a few weeks in 1999; Castro would return to the show on a few occasions in 2011. Other newscasters who presented The World Tonight include Loren Legarda, Tina Monzon-Palma, and Karen Davila.
Rico Hizon is a Filipino broadcast journalist,
Ana Patricia Hontiveros-Pagkalinawan, professionally known as Pia Hontiveros, is a Filipina broadcast journalist. She is the sister of Ginggay and Risa Hontiveros. She is also a cousin of singer Leah Navarro and singer-songwriter Barbie Almalbis.
Talk TV was an English-language all-news and talk television network in the Philippines. It is a joint venture of Southern Broadcasting Network and Solar Entertainment Corporation through Solar TV Network, Inc. It was available over SBN 21 on free TV. Talk TV operates 24 hours a day on cable TV and 6:00 AM - 12:00MN on SBN 21 starting October 1, 2012.
Nine Media Corporation is a Filipino-based media company. Formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Solar Entertainment Corporation (SEC), a multimedia television and film company of the Tieng family, it is now solely owned by the ALC Group of Companies of the late Amb. Antonio Cabangon-Chua. Nine Media is currently an affiliate of Aliw Broadcasting Corporation. Its headquarters are located at the Ground Floor of the Worldwide Corporate Center, Epifanio de los Santos Avenue corner Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong, sharing with its former parent Solar Entertainment.
CNN Philippines Nightly News or simply Nightly News was the flagship late night newscast of CNN Philippines that aired every weeknights 9:00-9:30 pm and replayed Tuesdays-Saturdays at midnight. Undergone several incarnations, it began its airing on July 16, 2012, and was axed on February 12, 2016, to give way to the expansion of CNN Philippines Newsroom.
9TV Daybreak was the English-language morning hard-news newscast of 9TV. It featured daily headlines as well as national and local news, weather, traffic, sports, foreign, and entertainment stories. Its initial telecast was on October 1, 2012, on TalkTV, airing weekdays from 7:00 am to 8:30 am (UTC+8:00). It was one of the retained programs upon TalkTV's conversion into Solar News Channel.
CNN Philippines Cebuano News was the flagship Cebuano-language newscast of CNN Philippines. It aired weekdays at 1:00 p.m. before Kapampangan News. It was the first regional newscast produced by CNN Philippines that premiered under its predecessor Solar News Channel and the first national newscast in Cebuano aired nationwide.
News.PH Kasama si Pia Hontiveros is the flagship national network Filipino-language newscast program of CNN Philippines, anchored by its Chief Correspondent Pia Hontiveros. The half-hour newscast airs at 7:00 PM on weekdays.
9TV was a major commercial television network in the Philippines. It was owned by Nine Media Corporation, Nine Media had an airtime agreement as the main content provider of Radio Philippines Network. 9TV was the replacement of the Solar News Channel who have been retired the "Solar" branding. Broadcast 18 hours daily from 6:00 AM to 12:00 MN on free TV, while 24 hours a day on cable and satellite TV providers and thru live streaming.
CNN Philippines was a Philippine free-to-air television network owned and operated by Nine Media Corporation, together with Radio Philippines Network (RPN), under license from Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific. It was launched on March 16, 2015, replacing 9TV, and was available on various platforms, including cable, satellite, live streaming and through the RPN network's television stations. CNN Philippines was the fifth local franchise of CNN in Asia, after CNN Indonesia, CNN Türk, CNN Arabic and CNN-IBN, and was formed after a brand licensing agreement with CNN Worldwide and Nine Media in 2014.
CNN Philippines Newsroom or simply Newsroom was the flagship rolling newscast service of CNN Philippines. It premiered on March 16, 2015, as a standalone noontime newscast and was expanded into different editions since February 15, 2016.
CNN Philippines Balitaan Kasama si Pinky Webb was the flagship Filipino language noontime newscast of CNN Philippines. It premiered on April 4, 2016, and aired on weekdays at 12:00 NN PST. Balitaan took over the timeslot of the original noontime edition of CNN Philippines Newsroom and is anchored by Pinky Webb. The newscast aired its last broadcast on January 26, 2024, as CNN Philippines ceased live news operations on the morning of January 29 ahead of its announced closure on January 31. It was replaced by Eat Bulaga! on RPTV in its timeslot since February 1, 2024.
CNN Philippines New Day was the English language morning newscast of CNN Philippines. Patterned after its U.S. counterpart CNN New Day, it replaced CNN Philippines Headline News. The show premiered February 15, 2016, as part of a major programming revamp brought by the appointment of Armie Jarin-Bennett as managing editor of CNN Philippines. It airs weekdays from 6:00 AM to 7:30 AM. It is originally anchored by Headline News holdover, the late Amelyn Veloso, and Claudine Trillo, as well as CNN Philippines Sports Desk morning edition anchor Andrei Felix and Atty. Karen Jimeno. Ria Tanjuatco-Trillo, Christine Jacob-Sandejas, Paolo Abrera, Dr. Freddie Gomez and Jamie Herrell currently serve as anchors. This was the last CNN Philippines live programs aired on January 29, 2024 until it ceased its live news operations after the morning newscast ahead of network's closure on January 31, consequently leaving the Indonesian version behind. It was replaced by Ted Failon at DJ Chacha sa Radyo5 on RPTV in its timeslot since February 1, 2024.
News Night was the flagship national network news program of CNN Philippines anchored by its chief correspondent Pia Hontiveros. It premiered on March 27, 2017, replacing CNN Philippines Network News. The hour-long newscast, broadcast in English from 2017 to 2022 and after that in Filipino, aired at 6 p.m. on weekdays.
The Final Word with Rico Hizon was CNN Philippines' flagship late-night news program. The show first aired on April 20, 2020, as a replacement to the network's 9pm edition of Newsroom. The show is anchored by the network's Senior Anchor and Director for News Content Development, Rico Hizon, who has come home to the Philippines after a 25-year overseas news stint with CNBC Asia and BBC News. The newscast aired its last broadcast on January 26, 2024, as CNN Philippines ceased live news operations on the morning of January 29 ahead of the channel's closure on January 31. It was replaced by Frontline Tonight on RPTV in its timeslot since February 1, 2024.
