DWDB-TV
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DWDB-TV channel 27 was a television station in Metro Manila
, owned and operated by the GMA Network, Inc.
Originally an independent station
, DWDB was the first UHF TV station operated by a major radio-television network. Its station was located at the GMA Network Center
at the corner of Timog Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue
in Quezon City
.
It was simplified in keeping with the symbol’s pared-down design. Underneath its oblique rings, a rectangular box embossing the text “citynet” in lower case and uses a San Serif font beneath it is the text “TELEVISION” in upper case and also uses the same San Serif typescript. But when displaying channel logo while programming, it was written CITYNET 27.
The goal of GMA Network for making the very first TV network-owned UHF station is to transfer all of its American programming to have broadcast time space for the GMA local TV shows. Transmitting on a 30,000-watt power capacity with an effective radiated power of up to 60,000 watts, Citynet's telecast on channel 27 covers the Metro Manila Area
and its neighboring provinces in Bulacan
, Laguna, and Cavite
. This station branding was known to have dubbed the first and only Philippine-dubbed Hispanic telenovela in English, entitled Ka Ina
(until May 28, 2009 when Amanda O
is debuted on Q in English dubbed telenovela), and Citynet Television News
.
to transmit a localize Channel [V]. On December 15, 1999, Channel [V] Philippines was launched on terrestrial channel 27.
On December 15, 1999, Star TV Network
leased the airtime of Citynet Television to launch Channel [V] Philippines
through EMC also known as Entertainment Music Channel. This was revived when the then Citynet broadcast taped Channel [V] International shows from 1995 - March 1999. This programming made Trey Farley
and Joey Mead
, former VJ-TV hosts of part-Filipino descent
, familiar to the Citynet televiewers in 1995. Also, if previously, both Channel [V] and Citynet logos appear on the right corners of TV screens, this time, only Channel [V] International and Channel [V] Philippines logos appear one at a time. Part of the strategy to localize Channel [V] programming produced both by Star TV and GMA through Alta Productions, its logo was shifted to a brand from a music television mark into a live product that has a vigorous position in its audience's lives. Channel [V] had inherited essentials of its distinctiveness, as well as the brackets around the V from its parent offshore. It dimensionalized the name Channel [V
], making it into an object that could then became an environment for its broadcast design and a stage for live events. Instead of being a stylistic device, the brackets have a real purpose. Part of the brief also involves reflecting Channel [V]'s changing in programming that was part of the relaunch, which was a shift to genre-specific rather than continuous hits. Building on the 3D logo method and in a more intrinsic Filipino, it formed themed rooms for each kind. Each attributed its own shade and animated transition from the main logo to a genre-specific version of the mark. On the middle of 2001, Channel V Philippines forced to shutdown due to intense competition of MTV Philippines
provided by Nation Broadcasting Company, a PLDT
sister company, when PLDT bought a controlling stake in GMA.
Regardless of the fact that this is the first UHF station owned by big radio-television company, the programming of the whole DWDB ended from changing its name to another. This was surpassed by the popularity of another UHF station owned by another big radio-television company, Studio 23
(DWAC 23
), which was established a year after the start of DWDB-TV.
However on March 1, 2009, Channel V Philippines is now under the new management with TVXtreme Broadcasting as a new network partner with STAR TV
. It was successfully music channel launch last June 1, 2009.
entered an agreement to rebroadcast DZOE-TV
channel 11, the flagship station of GMA's new subsidiary network QTV (later simply known as Q) as VHF with equal status to main GMA Network, in exchange of upgrading ZOE's facilities and airing ZOE-produced programming on GMA. Since 2007, this practice was discontinued to make use of station frequency for digital television
test broadcasts of GMA's flagship station, DZBB-TV
. This station becomes a repeater of Q, as Q is seen clearer in this station compared to channel 11 in southern areas of Metro Manila
, like Makati and Pasay, where UHF signals can penetrate buildings.
On February 28, 2011, QTV was reformatted into GMA News TV
.
began using DWDB-TV UHF Channel 27 for the test broadcast on the digitalization of their flagship channel DZBB-TV
Channel 7 and GMA News TV
Channel 11. The National Telecommunications Commission will announce their rules and guidelines in digital broadcasting later this year. GMA Network uses the ISDB-T digital broadcast system.
Metro Manila
Metropolitan Manila , the National Capital Region , or simply Metro Manila, is the metropolitan region encompassing the City of Manila and its surrounding areas in the Philippines...
, owned and operated by the GMA Network, Inc.
GMA Network, Inc.
Global Media Arts Network Inc. is a multimedia entertainment conglomerate, incorporated on March 1, 1950 in the Philippines. Its main businesses are into television and radio distribution, program production, and other media related industry...
Originally an independent station
Independent station
An independent station is in the category of television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any television network....
, DWDB was the first UHF TV station operated by a major radio-television network. Its station was located at the GMA Network Center
GMA Network Center
The GMA Network Center is the headquarters of the GMA Network, a major radio and television network in the Philippines. It is located at EDSA corner South Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. It is the network's main television and radio production center, and its main transmission facility for most of...
at the corner of Timog Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue
Epifanio de los Santos Avenue
Epifanio de los Santos Avenue , formerly known as Highway 54, is the main circumferential road and highway of Metro Manila in the Philippines. It is an important commuting artery between the northern and southern parts of the metropolitan area...
in Quezon City
Quezon City
Quezon City is the former capital and the most populous city in the Philippines. Located on the island of Luzon, Quezon City is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila, the National Capital Region. The city was named after Manuel L...
.
Citynet Television channel 27 (August 1995)
On August 27, 1995 seen another new UHF channel via DWDB-TV channel 27. It was the first UHF television station operated by a major broadcast network. GMA officially launches its new channel under the Citynet Television brand and decided to expand its programming business via UHF. While incorporating the standard red, green and blue colors with some extra color in grey, Citynet Television logo differs from the traditional GMA insignia. It uses in oblique oblong circles in an abstraction of three-rings to indicate richness in color.It was simplified in keeping with the symbol’s pared-down design. Underneath its oblique rings, a rectangular box embossing the text “citynet” in lower case and uses a San Serif font beneath it is the text “TELEVISION” in upper case and also uses the same San Serif typescript. But when displaying channel logo while programming, it was written CITYNET 27.
The goal of GMA Network for making the very first TV network-owned UHF station is to transfer all of its American programming to have broadcast time space for the GMA local TV shows. Transmitting on a 30,000-watt power capacity with an effective radiated power of up to 60,000 watts, Citynet's telecast on channel 27 covers the Metro Manila Area
Metro Manila
Metropolitan Manila , the National Capital Region , or simply Metro Manila, is the metropolitan region encompassing the City of Manila and its surrounding areas in the Philippines...
and its neighboring provinces in Bulacan
Bulacan
Bulacan , officially called the Province of Bulacan or simply Bulacan Province, is a first class province of the Republic of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon Region in the island of Luzon, north of Manila , and part of the Metro...
, Laguna, and Cavite
Cavite
Cavite is a province of the Philippines located on the southern shores of Manila Bay in the CALABARZON region in Luzon, just 30 kilometers south of Manila. Cavite is surrounded by Laguna to the east, Metro Manila to the northeast, and Batangas to the south...
. This station branding was known to have dubbed the first and only Philippine-dubbed Hispanic telenovela in English, entitled Ka Ina
Ka Ina
Ka Ina was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venevisión. This telenovela lasted 164 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International.-Synopsis:...
(until May 28, 2009 when Amanda O
Amanda O
Amanda O is a series of Internet television in Argentina and produced by Dori Media Group. The show features a cast, headed by Natalia Oreiro as Amanda O and Luciano Castro as Dante...
is debuted on Q in English dubbed telenovela), and Citynet Television News
Citynet Television News
Citynet Television News was a defunct television newscast of the defunct television network Citynet Television. It was produced by GMA Network through GMA News and Public Affairs. Launched on August 27, 1995, it is aired at 21:00 on all Citynet stations in the country and it was hosted by a female...
.
Entertainment Music Channel (1999)
Due to high programming cost, Citynet Television was rebranded into a music channel. EMC or Entertainment Music Channel uses a single logo adaptation. A simple with a modern glossier style was used. There are no other recorded insignia, due to the fact it only lasted months after it was turned into a branded music channel owned by Star TV Network. After months of commercial broadcast, GMA Network signed a leased broadcast agreement with Star TV NetworkSTAR TV (Asia)
Satellite Television Asian Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.In 2009, News Corporation restructured STAR Asia into four units – STAR India, STAR Greater China, STAR Select and Fox International Channels....
to transmit a localize Channel [V]. On December 15, 1999, Channel [V] Philippines was launched on terrestrial channel 27.
Channel [V] Philippines (December 1999)
- Main article: Channel [V] PhilippinesChannel V PhilippinesChannel [V] Philippines is a 24-hour music-entertainment television network owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, a partnership with TV Xtreme Broadcasting Company as a new network provider starting on March 1, 2009....
On December 15, 1999, Star TV Network
STAR TV (Asia)
Satellite Television Asian Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.In 2009, News Corporation restructured STAR Asia into four units – STAR India, STAR Greater China, STAR Select and Fox International Channels....
leased the airtime of Citynet Television to launch Channel [V] Philippines
Channel V Philippines
Channel [V] Philippines is a 24-hour music-entertainment television network owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, a partnership with TV Xtreme Broadcasting Company as a new network provider starting on March 1, 2009....
through EMC also known as Entertainment Music Channel. This was revived when the then Citynet broadcast taped Channel [V] International shows from 1995 - March 1999. This programming made Trey Farley
Trey Farley
Trey Farley is an actor and television presenter.-Early life:Farley's father is English and his mother Filipino...
and Joey Mead
Joey Mead
Joey Mead or Rosa Josefa Mead is an Australian television personality and Model born in the Philippines.-Personal:Mead has a Filipina mother, Josephine del Pilar Mead. Her biological father is of Persian descent. When she was 6, she and her mother settled Adelaide, Australia,with her Australian...
, former VJ-TV hosts of part-Filipino descent
Overseas Filipino
An Overseas Filipino is a person of Philippine origin who lives outside of the Philippines. This term applies both to people of Filipino ancestry who are citizens or residents of a different country and to those Filipino citizens abroad on a more temporary status.Most overseas Filipinos migrate to...
, familiar to the Citynet televiewers in 1995. Also, if previously, both Channel [V] and Citynet logos appear on the right corners of TV screens, this time, only Channel [V] International and Channel [V] Philippines logos appear one at a time. Part of the strategy to localize Channel [V] programming produced both by Star TV and GMA through Alta Productions, its logo was shifted to a brand from a music television mark into a live product that has a vigorous position in its audience's lives. Channel [V] had inherited essentials of its distinctiveness, as well as the brackets around the V from its parent offshore. It dimensionalized the name Channel [V
Channel V
Channel [V] is the brand name for multiple international music television networks owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation.-Channel [V] International:...
], making it into an object that could then became an environment for its broadcast design and a stage for live events. Instead of being a stylistic device, the brackets have a real purpose. Part of the brief also involves reflecting Channel [V]'s changing in programming that was part of the relaunch, which was a shift to genre-specific rather than continuous hits. Building on the 3D logo method and in a more intrinsic Filipino, it formed themed rooms for each kind. Each attributed its own shade and animated transition from the main logo to a genre-specific version of the mark. On the middle of 2001, Channel V Philippines forced to shutdown due to intense competition of MTV Philippines
MTV Philippines
MTV Philippines was a 24-hour music/entertainment television network owned by All Youth Channels, Inc., with a partnership with MTV Networks Asia Pacific...
provided by Nation Broadcasting Company, a PLDT
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company commonly known as PLDT, is the largest telecommunications company in the Philippines. PLDT is also the largest company in the Philippines, ranked 1138th in the April 2009 update, and 1080th in the April 2010 update, of Forbes' Global 2000 list...
sister company, when PLDT bought a controlling stake in GMA.
Regardless of the fact that this is the first UHF station owned by big radio-television company, the programming of the whole DWDB ended from changing its name to another. This was surpassed by the popularity of another UHF station owned by another big radio-television company, Studio 23
Studio 23
Studio 23 is a Filipino television network owned by the ABS-CBN Corporation. The network is named for its flagship station in Metro Manila, DWAC-TV, which is carried on UHF channel 23...
(DWAC 23
DWAC-TV
DWAC-TV, channel 23, is the flagship station of Philippine television network Studio 23, a fully owned subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studios and transmitter are located at ABS-CBN Broadcast Center Mother Ignacia cor. Sgt...
), which was established a year after the start of DWDB-TV.
However on March 1, 2009, Channel V Philippines is now under the new management with TVXtreme Broadcasting as a new network partner with STAR TV
STAR TV
Satellite Television Asia Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, with regional offices in mainland China, Taiwan....
. It was successfully music channel launch last June 1, 2009.
As Q and GMA News TV's repeater station
In November 2005, GMA Network used this station after GMA and ZOE Broadcasting NetworkZOE Broadcasting Network
ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. is a Philippine television network of Jesus is Lord Movement leader Eddie Villanueva. ZOE is currently an affiliate of GMA Network. This stations studios and offices are located at 22/F Strata 2000 Bldg, F. Ortigas Jr. Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig City. With...
entered an agreement to rebroadcast DZOE-TV
DZOE-TV
DZOE-TV, channel 11, is a television station in Quezon City, owned by ZOE Broadcasting Network. As part of an agreement with GMA Network, the station simulcasts GMA News TV, a national news channel...
channel 11, the flagship station of GMA's new subsidiary network QTV (later simply known as Q) as VHF with equal status to main GMA Network, in exchange of upgrading ZOE's facilities and airing ZOE-produced programming on GMA. Since 2007, this practice was discontinued to make use of station frequency for digital television
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
test broadcasts of GMA's flagship station, DZBB-TV
DZBB-TV
DZBB-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of Philippine television network GMA Network, Inc. Its studios are located at the GMA Network Center, at the corner of Timog Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Quezon City...
. This station becomes a repeater of Q, as Q is seen clearer in this station compared to channel 11 in southern areas of Metro Manila
Metro Manila
Metropolitan Manila , the National Capital Region , or simply Metro Manila, is the metropolitan region encompassing the City of Manila and its surrounding areas in the Philippines...
, like Makati and Pasay, where UHF signals can penetrate buildings.
On February 28, 2011, QTV was reformatted into GMA News TV
GMA News TV
GMA News TV is a news and lifestyle-oriented channel in the Philippines. It is owned and operated by GMA Network Inc. through the supervision GMA News and Public Affairs...
.
GMA DZBB-TV Channel 7 Digital Television Test Broadcast
In Mid-2011, GMA NetworkGMA Network
GMA Network is a major commercial television & radio network in the Philippines. GMA Network is owned by GMA Network, Inc. a publicly listed company...
began using DWDB-TV UHF Channel 27 for the test broadcast on the digitalization of their flagship channel DZBB-TV
DZBB-TV
DZBB-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of Philippine television network GMA Network, Inc. Its studios are located at the GMA Network Center, at the corner of Timog Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Quezon City...
Channel 7 and GMA News TV
DZOE-TV
DZOE-TV, channel 11, is a television station in Quezon City, owned by ZOE Broadcasting Network. As part of an agreement with GMA Network, the station simulcasts GMA News TV, a national news channel...
Channel 11. The National Telecommunications Commission will announce their rules and guidelines in digital broadcasting later this year. GMA Network uses the ISDB-T digital broadcast system.
Slogans
- "Your Window to the World" (1995–1999)
- "Your Entertainment Music Channel" (1999)
See also
- GMA NetworkGMA NetworkGMA Network is a major commercial television & radio network in the Philippines. GMA Network is owned by GMA Network, Inc. a publicly listed company...
- Q
- GMA News TVGMA News TVGMA News TV is a news and lifestyle-oriented channel in the Philippines. It is owned and operated by GMA Network Inc. through the supervision GMA News and Public Affairs...
- List of programs broadcast by Q
- List of programs broadcast by GMA Network
- List of GMA News TV stations