Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation
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Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation was a Philippine
television network that started operations in November 1973 and ended on February 25, 1986.
(formerly named DZAQ-TV) station owned by ABS-CBN, which had shut down after the declaration of martial law, served as the flagship station of BBC. The network became well-remembered for its trademark jingle, "Big Beautiful Country", composed by Jose Mari Chan
.
BBC originally operated out of the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center on Sgt. Esguerra (formerly Bohol) Avenue in Quezon City. Roberto Benedicto, a crony of former President Ferdinand Marcos
and owner of Radio Philippines Network
(alternately known at that time as Kanlaon Broadcasting System), took over the broadcast facility after the KBS Studios at Roxas Boulevard in Pasay (which were, incidentally, sold to them by ABS-CBN in 1969) were destroyed by fire in June 1973, a few months before BBC went on the air. In 1976, BBC, RPN and another Benedicto-owned network, Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
(which originally aired from San Juan), transferred to the Broadcast City compound in Old Balara, Quezon City and the transmitter located at Panay Ave, Quezon City, leaving Channel 4
(also formerly owned by ABS-CBN, but was taken over and reopened by the government as GTV
in 1974) at the ABS-CBN compound, then renamed Broadcast Plaza.
By December 1973, the network also operated DYCB-TV 3
in Cebu and DYXL-TV 4
in Bacolod, both of which were also originally owned by ABS-CBN. Their call signs were also changed to DYCW-TV and DYBW-TV, respectively. The Cebu and Bacolod stations switched affiliations to GTV-4 (later MBS) in 1978 (and reverted to their former call letters) and were returned to ABS-CBN in 1986.
BBC-2 was rebranded as City 2 Television from 1980 to 1984, and rebranded again as BBC-2 with a different logo during its last years of broadcast before the EDSA Revolution.
After Corazon Aquino became president in 1986, BBC was shut down after being sequestered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government
, due to its part in the Marcos regime. DWWX-TV, which was vacant from February 25, was given back to the ABS-CBN network on July 16, 1986.
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
television network that started operations in November 1973 and ended on February 25, 1986.
History
The DWWX-TVDWWX-TV
DWWX-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of Philippine television network ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studios and transmitter are located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center at Sgt...
(formerly named DZAQ-TV) station owned by ABS-CBN, which had shut down after the declaration of martial law, served as the flagship station of BBC. The network became well-remembered for its trademark jingle, "Big Beautiful Country", composed by Jose Mari Chan
José Mari Chan
Jose Mari Chan is a Chinese Filipino singer, songwriter and businessman in the sugar industry. He was born in Iloilo City on March 11, 1945. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1967...
.
BBC originally operated out of the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center on Sgt. Esguerra (formerly Bohol) Avenue in Quezon City. Roberto Benedicto, a crony of former President Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...
and owner of Radio Philippines Network
Radio Philippines Network
Radio Philippines Network, Inc. is a broadcast television network in the Philippines co-owned by the Government Communications Group, Solar Entertainment Corporation, Far East Managers and Investors Inc., and private sectors. This station studios are located at Broadcast City, Old Balara, Capitol...
(alternately known at that time as Kanlaon Broadcasting System), took over the broadcast facility after the KBS Studios at Roxas Boulevard in Pasay (which were, incidentally, sold to them by ABS-CBN in 1969) were destroyed by fire in June 1973, a few months before BBC went on the air. In 1976, BBC, RPN and another Benedicto-owned network, Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation is a Philippine VHF television network of the Government Communications Group headed by the Press Secretary. Its studios are located at Broadcast City, Old Balara, Capitol Hills, Diliman, Quezon City and its transmitter is located at the Coca Cola plant,...
(which originally aired from San Juan), transferred to the Broadcast City compound in Old Balara, Quezon City and the transmitter located at Panay Ave, Quezon City, leaving Channel 4
DWGT-TV
DWGT-TV, channel 4, is the flagship station of Philippine television network People's Television Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Broadcast Complex, Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.-History:...
(also formerly owned by ABS-CBN, but was taken over and reopened by the government as GTV
National Broadcasting Network
People's Television is the flagship government television network owned by the Philippine Government through People's Television Network, Inc. . Its head office, studios and transmitter are located at Broadcast Complex, Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City .-History:The country's government...
in 1974) at the ABS-CBN compound, then renamed Broadcast Plaza.
By December 1973, the network also operated DYCB-TV 3
DYCB-TV
DYCB-TV, channel 3, is a television station of Philippine television network ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation in Cebu. The station's studio is located at the ABS-CBN Central Visayas Broadcasting Complex in North Road Jagobiao, Cebu City, and its transmitter is located at Mount Busay Babag 1, Cebu...
in Cebu and DYXL-TV 4
DYXL-TV
DYXL-TV, channel 4, is the sister station of Philippine television network of ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studios are located at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Lacson Sts., Bacolod City, Negros Occidental and transmitter is located at Aquino Drive, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental.-History:*1963 -...
in Bacolod, both of which were also originally owned by ABS-CBN. Their call signs were also changed to DYCW-TV and DYBW-TV, respectively. The Cebu and Bacolod stations switched affiliations to GTV-4 (later MBS) in 1978 (and reverted to their former call letters) and were returned to ABS-CBN in 1986.
BBC-2 was rebranded as City 2 Television from 1980 to 1984, and rebranded again as BBC-2 with a different logo during its last years of broadcast before the EDSA Revolution.
After Corazon Aquino became president in 1986, BBC was shut down after being sequestered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government
Presidential Commission on Good Government
The Presidential Commission on Good Government, PCGG, is a special body created by Pres. Corazon Aquino to recover ill-gotten wealth accumulated during the Marcos regime.-History:...
, due to its part in the Marcos regime. DWWX-TV, which was vacant from February 25, was given back to the ABS-CBN network on July 16, 1986.
Programming (Local)
- Ang Iglesia ni CristoIglesia ni CristoIglesia ni Cristo also known as INC, is the largest entirely indigenous Christian religious organization that originated from the Philippines and the largest independent church in Asia. Due to a number of similarities, some Protestant writers describe the INC's doctrines as restorationist in...
(first INC program on Philippine television, aired in 1983) - Alindog
- 2 Plus 2
- BBC Balita/BBC Balita Late Night Edition (retitled "City 2 Balita" after the "City 2" rebranding)
- BBC Afternoon Theater
- The Big, Big Show
- Dos Por Dos
- PST
- Okey Sha!Sharon CunetaSharon Cuneta-Pangilinan, better known as Sharon Cuneta, is a popular and multi-awarded Filipino singer, actress and TV host dubbed as Megastar of Philippine Entertainment, fondly called Mega by fans and people from the entertainment industry....
- VIP (Vilma in Person)Vilma SantosMaria Rosa Vilma Tuazon Santos-Recto commonly known as Vilma Santos-Recto or Ate Vi is a multi-awarded actress and politician...
- Dulambuhay ni Rosa VilmaVilma SantosMaria Rosa Vilma Tuazon Santos-Recto commonly known as Vilma Santos-Recto or Ate Vi is a multi-awarded actress and politician...
- Eliza
- Batman & Robin
- Abbott and CostelloAbbott and CostelloWilliam "Bud" Abbott and Lou Costello performed together as Abbott and Costello, an American comedy duo whose work on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s...
- Nagmamahal, Amalia
- TV POWWWTV POWWWTV POWWW was a franchised television game show format, in which home viewers controlled a video game via telephone in hopes of winning prizes.-History:...
- Kiddie Pow!
- Ariel after Six
- Nanette Por Kilo
- Ariel con Tina
- Odyssey 2
- Weekend Thriller
- Big Ike's Happening...Now!Ike LozadaEnrique "Big Ike" Lozada was a Filipino comedian, actor and TV host.-Early life:He was born on August 13, 1940 in Iloilo City. He started acting at the age of 11 on the movie Mga Bituin ng Kinabukasan with the younger Susan Roces.-Movies:*Ano ba 'yan ......
- Ladies and Gentlemen...
- Kuarta o Kahon
- Buhok-Pinoy
- Coffee with Lee Andres
- JQ on Cue
- Karnabal Dos
- Blu
- CelesteCeleste LegaspiCeleste Legaspi is a Filipino singer and actress. Her singles and albums reached gold or platinum status during the 1970s and 1980s. She is the daughter of National Artist for Visual Arts Cesar Legaspi...
- Rico BabyRico J. PunoEnrico de Jesus Puno , better known as Rico J. Puno, is a popular Filipino pop singing artist and television host who is credited as a pioneer-promoter of original Filipino music. He started the trend of incorporating Tagalog lyrics in his rendition of the American song The Way We Were and other...
- Broadcast Campus
- Gulong ng PaladGulong ng PaladGulong ng Palad is a Philippine 50's radio drama series and 1980s soap opera hit...
- Ilaw ng Tahanan
- Tang-tarang-tang
- The Pilita and Jackie ShowPilita CorralesPilita Garrido Corrales is a Popular Filipina singer. She is tagged "Asia's Queen of Songs."-Biography:Pilita Garrido Corrales was born in Lahug, Cebu to a Spanish mother Maria Garrido and a half Filipino half Spanish father Jose Corrales...
- Nothing But the TruthInday BadidayLourdes Jimenez Carvajal , better known as Inday Badiday, was a Filipino host and journalist who was known as Philippine television's "queen of showbiz talk shows" and "queen of intrigues"....
- PBA on BBCPhilippine Basketball AssociationThe Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
- NFL on City2National Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
- Banana Sundae
- Peping
Radio stations
- DWWA 1206DWANDWAN was a AM station owned and operated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority. Its studios and transmitter were located in the MMDA's Communications and Command Center in Epifanio de los Santos Avenue corner Orense Street, Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati City.-History:The station's aim was to...
- Metro Manila (Call letters were changed to DWAN. It was later owned by Intercontinental Broadcasting CorporationIntercontinental Broadcasting CorporationIntercontinental Broadcasting Corporation is a Philippine VHF television network of the Government Communications Group headed by the Press Secretary. Its studios are located at Broadcast City, Old Balara, Capitol Hills, Diliman, Quezon City and its transmitter is located at the Coca Cola plant,...
and then under the management of MMDAMetropolitan Manila Development AuthorityThe Metropolitan Manila Development Authority , is an agency of the Republic of the Philippines created embracing the cities of Manila, Quezon City, Caloocan, Pasay, Mandaluyong, Makati, Pasig, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Las Piñas, Parañaque, Valenzuela, Malabon, Taguig, Navotas and San Juan and the...
. This station is currently inactive.) - DWWK-FM/DWOK-FM 101.9DWRR 101.9DWRR-FM, branded as Tambayan 101.9, is the flagship FM station of the ABS–CBN Corporation in the Philippines. It is a 24-hour operating station that plays OPM, Hip-Hop, R&B, K-Pop, J-Pop, and Foreign Hit Songs from the USA, Japan, UK, South Korea, and around the world...
- Metro Manila (The frequency was awarded to ABS-CBNABS-CBNABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...
in 1986. It is currently known as Tambayan 101.9.)