The PBA on AKTV is the presentation of Philippine Basketball Association

Philippine Basketball Association

The 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...

 basketball games which started in the 2011-12 season

2011–12 PBA season

The 2011–12 PBA season is the 37th season of the Philippine Basketball Association. The season was formally opened on October 2, 2011 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, and expected to finish around August 2012. The season uses three-conference format, starting with the Philippine Cup, or the...

. Telecasts are produced by Sports5

Sports5

TV5 Sports or Sports5 is a division of Associated Broadcasting Company , which airs many of the sports events in the Philippines. The world's second oldest professional basketball league, Philippine Basketball Association, was its flagship program since it acquired of the television rights from...

, the sports division of television network TV5

Associated Broadcasting Company

The Associated Broadcasting Company, Inc is a television network in the Philippines, with main broadcast facilities and transmitter located at 762 Quirino Highway, San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City. The network was previously known as the , Associated Broadcasting Company remains the legal...

, and airs on 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,...

 under the AKTV

AKTV

AKTV is a sports and lifestyle primetime programming block in the Philippines. Owned and operated by TV5, it occupies the 5:00 to 11:00pm timeslot of IBC; weekend coverage usually begins at 10:00 am. It started since June 5, 2011.-History:...

 primetime block.

TV5, which was previously known as the Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC), previously handled the coverage of the games from 2004

2004 PBA Fiesta Conference

The 2004 PBA Fiesta Conference, or known as the 2004 Gran Matador Brandy-PBA Fiesta Conference for sponsorship reasons, was tournament held by the Philippine Basketball Association and the first ever edition of the PBA Fiesta Conference....

 to 2008

2007-08 PBA season

The 2007-08 PBA Season was the 33rd season of the Philippine Basketball Association. The season was formally opened on October 14, 2007 at the Araneta Coliseum...

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This is the third time that the PBA will be aired on IBC. The first was from 1996-2002 when Vintage Sports and later Viva Sports handled the television coverage. In 2003, IBC was one of two networks (the other being NBN) that covered the PBA but ended before the season ended due to the failure of the consortium.

Play-by-play

• Charlie Cuna
• Mico Halili
• Magoo Marjon
• Chiqui Reyes
• Jolly Escobar

Color

• Rado Dimalibot
• Quinito Henson
  Quinito Henson
  Quinito Henson is a Filipino sports analyst and television color commentator. His newspaper column, Sporting Chance, has appeared in the Philippine Star since the 1980s...
  
  
• Barry Pascua
• Eric Reyes
  Eric Reyes
  Eric Reyes is a Puerto Rican international soccer player who plays college soccer for Florida International University, as a goalkeeper.-Career:...
  
  
• Dominic Uy
• Jason Webb
  Jason Webb
  Jason Webb is a former professional soccer player and a Partner and Co-Founder of Soccer Shots, a national soccer program based in the Harrisburg, Pa. area that introduces children ages 3 – 8 to the game of soccer, as well as character development and fundamental life skills.Webb moved from...
  
  

Courtside Reporters

• Aaron Atayde
  Aaron Atayde
  Aaron Joshua "Josh Strike" Atayde is a DJ, TV host, and sports anchor for ABS-CBN Sports' coverage of the UAAP. He is now sports anchor for UFL on AKTV and doing courtside reportage for PBA.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Angelika Schmeing-Cruz
• Sel Guevarra
• Jessica Mendoza
• Erika Padilla
  Erika Padilla
  -Biography:Born Erika Padilla to father General Ricardo Ilagan Padilla. Her mother is a businesswoman while her father is the current Regional Director of Region 4 Calabarzon....