DYPT-TV

DYPT-TV, channel 11, is a relay television station of Philippine-government owned television network People's Television Network. Its transmitter are located at Sitio Babag, Brgy. Busay, Cebu City.

History

• September 11, 1963 - PTV begin its broadcasts in Cebu via Channel 11, which was launched by Associated Broadcasting Corporation (now TV5 Network, Inc.), with the call sign DYMT-TV until President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law on September 21, 1972.
• February 2, 1974 - During the Martial Law era, the station reopened as DYGT-TV and became an owned-and-operated station of the National Media Production Center as Government Television (GTV) under Lito Gorospe and later by then-Press Secretary Francisco Tatad. It is the first television station in Central Visayas.
• 1978 - DYGT-TV switched affiliation to Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation, with call sign changed to DYCW-TV. In the same year, GTV was transferred to Channel 3, then upon became Maharlika Broadcasting System (MBS) in 1980.
• February 24, 1986 - Following the People Power Revolution on which it was taken over by pro-Corazon Aquino, the station was reopened as People's Television (PTV). The call sign was changed to DYPT-TV.
• March 26, 1992 - President Cory Aquino signed Republic Act 7306 turning PTV Network into a government corporation known formally as People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI). On the following year, PTV-11 Cebu upgraded as originating station at that time.
• July 16, 2001 - Under the new management appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, PTNI adopted the name National Broadcasting Network (NBN) carrying new slogan "One People. One Nation. One Vision." for a new image in line with its new programming thrusts, they continued the new name until the Aquino administration in 2010.
• 2011 - After it was lasted for twenty-five years in Cebu, the station suddenly went off the air needed to upgrade its facilities.
• August 30, 2015 - PTV-11 Cebu resumes its operations and downgraded to relay (satellite-selling) station, with the 10,000-watt brand new transmitter from the Advanced Broadcasting Electronics (ABE) Elettronica of Italy, complemented by a 250-foot tower in Sitio Babag, Barangay Busay, Cebu City, coinciding with the APEC Summit held there after it went off the air for 4 years.^[1]

Digital television

See also

• People's Television Network
• List of People's Television Network stations and channels
• DWGT-TV - the network's flagship station in Manila.
• DYMR

External links

• Radio and TV broadcast stations of Region VII: Cebu province, National Telecommunications Commission (Philippines)

References