DWKC-DTV, Channel 31, is a flagship
digital
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television station
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of
Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, Inc. Its head office are located at 3rd floor, Globe Telecom Plaza 1, Pioneer St. cor. Madison St.,
Mandaluyong City
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, while its transmitter and master control is located at Palos Verdes Subdivision, Sumulong Highway, Santa Cruz,
Antipolo
Antipolo, officially known as the City of Antipolo ( fil, Lungsod ng Antipolo), is a 1st class component city and capital of the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 887,399 people. It is the mo ...
,
Rizal
Rizal, officially the Province of Rizal ( fil, Lalawigan ng Rizal), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region in Luzon. Its capital is the city of Antipolo. It is about east of Manila. The p ...
.
History
As CTV-31
On October 31, 1993,
Radio Mindanao Network
Radio Mindanao Network, Inc. (RMN), d.b.a. RMN Networks or RMN Network, is a Filipino media company based in Makati, Philippines. It is primarily involved is one of the largest radio networks. Its corporate office is located at the 4th Floor ...
became the second radio-based network to launch a TV station called Cinema Television 31 (CTV-31) through its flagship station, DWKC-TV. An all-movie channel, its programming included a presentation of Filipino and
Hollywood
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movies respectively, and programs from
E!, an American cable channel. It is the first
UHF
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station to be inspired by the format of a cable movie channel. The station once clinched a top spot for its TV ratings in all UHF stations.
However, because of the broadcasting rules assigned by
National Telecommunications Commission
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC; fil, Pambansang Komisyon sa Telekomunikasyon) is an attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology responsible for the supervision, adjudication and control over ...
and the matter that they acquired the broadcast rights from E!, CTV-31 stopped its broadcast in September 2000.
E! Philippines 31 and ceased transmission
In October 2000,
E! and RMN announced its partnership to relaunch CTV into E! Philippines Channel 31, with its broadcasting extended into 24 hours. But in 2003, it reduced its broadcasts into 12 broadcasting-hours, from 12:00 NN to 12:00 MN. Some of E!'s programs were brought to the Philippines and remade in a local version, one of which was ''Wild On! Philippines''. However, on June 1, 2003, RMN decided to cease their operations on TV due to financial constraints and poor television ratings as well as increasing losses and debts brought about by few advertisers (e.g. Fortune Tobacco Corporation; now
PMFTC
PMFTC, Inc. is the Philippine affiliate of Philip Morris International (PMI). Owned 50-50 by PMI and local conglomerate LT Group, PMFTC is the leading cigarette manufacturer in the Philippines, controlling over 90% of the local market, commerciali ...
), and somehow to focus only on their 2 radio networks (RMN and iFM). There were several religious groups who had wished to acquire block programming of E! Philippines, but RMN refused to accept their offers. Some programs of E! were broadcast later to
Q (now
GTV, current aired over
Channel 27) via ''E! on Q'',
ETC
* Etc. or et cetera, a Latin expression meaning "and the other things" or "and the rest".
ETC or etc may also refer to:
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* ETC (Chilean TV channel), a Chilean cable television channel
* ETC (Philippine TV channel), a P ...
(aired over
SBN),
Solar News Channel
Solar News Channel (SNC) was a major commercial television network in the Philippines, owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation's arm television subsidiary of Solar Television Network lease with its owner by Radio Philippines Network. Its flag ...
(now
CNN Philippines
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, aired over
RPN), and
Velvet
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(now defunct).
From July 2011 to December 31, 2019,
E! (now defunct) has been available on most major cable/satellite systems in the Philippines distributed by
Universal Networks International
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When NBCUniversal was formed in 2004, it owned many entertainment television c ...
(a subsidiary of
NBCUniversal
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).
As BEAM Channel 31
Initial Broadcast and The Game Channel
![Tv31-dwkc-thegamechannel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Tv31-dwkc-thegamechannel.jpg)
After almost eight years of inactivity on television service, on July 3, 2011, UHF 31 returned its operations as a test broadcast. The station (along with some RMN-owned UHF stations nationwide) was occupied by Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, after the latter bought up the acquisition by Bethlehem Holdings, Inc. (funded by
Globe Telecom
Globe Telecom, Inc., commonly shortened as Globe, is a major provider of telecommunications services in the Philippines. The company operates the largest mobile network in the Philippines and one of the largest fixed-line and broadband networks ...
's Group Retirement Fund) from RMN.
Under new ownership, BEAM began its affiliation partnership with
Solar Entertainment Corporation
Solar Entertainment Corporation (simply known as Solar or SEC) is a Filipino media company based in Makati, Philippines. Founded and owned by the brothers, Wilson, William and Willy Tieng. Solar Entertainment operates two digital free-to-air c ...
.
The network was branded on July 13 as BEAM Channel 31. On August 15, 2011, it started its initial broadcast carrying
The Game Channel
The Game Channel (abbreviated TGC, stylized as tgc from January 2014 – February 2015) was a Filipino cable and satellite television network owned and produced by Solar Entertainment Corporation who also created the networks My Movie Channel, N ...
.
As CHASE
On December 24, 2011, The Game Channel limited its broadcast on daytime sharing with a new programming service called
CHASE
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which takes over the evening block. In February 2012, both services aired a promotion, announcing the split of CHASE and TGC to form themselves as separate channels, which entitled "CHASE goes 24". The changes took effect on February 15, 2012, when The Game Channel bade goodbye to the viewers after its 7-month run on free TV and became a cable-only channel; while CHASE leased and took its entire BEAM airtime on free TV.
As Jack City
On September 7, 2012,
Jack TV
Jack TV (stylised as JACK TV) is an online web portal owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation and based in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila. It was known as a Philippine pay television network mainly offering multi-genre programming from the United ...
plugged their announcement thru CHASE programs bearing the title "Another Jack TV is rising, coming soon on this channel" (BEAM Channel 31). This indicated that CHASE was being replaced; finally, on October 20, 2012, Jack City was then launched, marking October 19 as the end of CHASE's broadcasts.
Jack City
Jack City was a Filipino cable and satellite television network based in Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong. Formerly known as Chase, it serves as the spin-off channel to Jack TV. Owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation, the channel is currently broad ...
still does carry some of CHASE's programs however.
The full broadcast was initiated on November 11, 2012. On June 28, 2013, Jack City was forced to reduce its Free TV broadcast to 18 hours a day on BEAM in compliance with the National Telecommunications Commission's guidelines. However, it still continues to air as a cable channel 24 hours a day.
On July 16, 2014, the day that
Metro Manila
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was crippled by
"Typhoon Glenda (Rammasun)", the station became inactive. It was later found out that the transmitter located in Palos Verdes in
Antipolo
Antipolo, officially known as the City of Antipolo ( fil, Lungsod ng Antipolo), is a 1st class component city and capital of the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 887,399 people. It is the mo ...
,
Rizal
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received a total damage to some of its facilities done by the said typhoon. As a result, the station shuts down temporarily for another maintenance, and continued its telecast on cable networks. Somehow it resumed telecast on August 10, 2014, at 9:00 PM, but still under observation.
Digital television broadcast and Independent telecast
On September 1, 2014, Jack City ceased its affiliation status on BEAM Channel 31 and its provincial affiliates, as BEAM prepares its ISDB-T digital television. However, Jack City continues to broadcast on pay TV networks until March 21, 2015, when the channel was rebranded as
CT a day later on March 22, 2015.
At the same day, it began using blocktime programs from
O Shopping
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(of
ABS-CBN Corporation
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and
CJ Group
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of Korea) and several programs from
TBN Asia (including The 700 Club Asia and Praise the Lord) along with religious programming produced by the Essential Broadcasting Network under the leadership of Bro. Greg Durante of Greg Durante Ministries.
On November 15, 2014, the channel is carried over
SkyCable
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,
Destiny Cable
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and other Pay TV subscribers (per compliance with NTC's "must-carry" basis), displacing Jack City to a different cable channel assignment, which is only available for subscribers residing in Metro Manila and neighboring provinces. This also makes BEAM available to cable viewers 24 hours a day once again when it took effect four months later, on March 12, 2015.
On March 1, 2015, TV Shop Philippines (also known as revival of Value Vision) began airing on this channel in the afternoon, followed by selected Tagalog-dubbed telenovelas carried from the
Telenovela Channel on nighttime.
On March 9, 2015, the channel also added Shop Japan to its programming during morning hours;
Shop TV
Shop TV is a 24-hour shopping related TV channel owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation.History of Shop TV
retrieved via w ...
began its infomercial service on February 22, 2016 (Shop TV, ironically, is owned by BEAM's former blocktime partner Solar Entertainment), but would end transmission with BEAM after December 31, 2018.
By March 1, 2016, all of BEAM's programs were split into digital television streams. O Shopping, TBN, TV Shop and Shop Japan were relocated as their respective digital subchannel of its own; while BEAM became an affiliate of Shop TV in its analog signal, allowing it to cover most of BEAM's airtime (Tagalog-dubbed telenovelas remained on the analog channel during primetime).
In May 2016, BEAM added the live video streaming service of ''
Philippine Daily Inquirer
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'' and
Trans-Radio Broadcasting Corporation's
Radyo Inquirer 990 as its new subchannel affiliate, coinciding with the
2016 Philippine elections. Within the same month, Bacolod City-based travel and lifestyle cable channel Island Living (broadcasting its programs through provincial cable operators including some affiliates of
SkyCable
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from Visayas and Mindanao) became BEAM's new subchannel, followed by the replacement of TBN Asia with Taiwan-based Christian pay TV channel GOOD TV (which is in fact aired as a former blocktime program from Light Network (now
Light TV Light TV may refer to:
*Light TV, a former name of the American television network TheGrio
*Light TV, a subchannel of Philippine TV station DZOZ-DTV
**Light TV, a related network of ZOE Broadcasting Network
ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. (ZOE ...
) and as a standalone channel on
Destiny Cable
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and
Cignal
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Cignal's prepaid electronic ...
). GOOD TV PH, however, was replaced by infomercial service EZShop weeks later. Its channel space on digital television remains vacant since July 2016, with GCTV returned a few months later.
The channel split of BEAM was finally completed in August 2016 when telenovelas were removed from the network's main/analog feed. Since then, constant changes occur on its digital subchannels from time to time.
On September 1, 2016, Filipino cultural channel
Pilipinas HD
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(owned by sportscaster Chino Trinidad) was added to BEAM's subchannel lineup.
On January 4, 2020, BEAM's digital transmission was changed frequency from UHF channel 32 to 50.
Subchannel adjustments and migration to digital broadcast, PIE
In 2021, Jesus is Shield Worldwide Ministries acquired a timeshare block on BEAM's 3rd subchannel occupied by Pilipinas HD. The said timeshare block carried the syndicated religious program ''Oras ng Himala'' on a mid-morning and primetime evening slot basis until December 30, 2022.
In preparation for their full migration to digital broadcast, BEAM TV announced that they will discontinue their broadcast on analog after 10 years for the second time on January 1, 2022, hence, they're the fourth broadcaster to shift in full digital operations to do so. BEAM TV on analog telecast made its final sign-off appearance on December 31, 2021, as the station was now fully migrated to digital broadcast only. As of January 18, 2022 (18 days later, after its analog shutdown), BEAM TV Digital broadcast started to operate on UHF 31, but still under maintenance as the network still trying to migrate its signal operations which is currently using the digital transmission on UHF 50 in the area.
On April 6, 2022, BEAM announced its co-ownership with
ABS-CBN Corporation
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,
Kroma Entertainment
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and 917Ventures for its launching of Pinoy Interactive Entertainment or PIE, with ABS-CBN served as its main content production provider while Kroma Entertainment as its technological innovative interaction format backed by 917Ventures. The channel started its test broadcast on April 25, 2022, showcasing unprompted daily questions each day until May 15, followed by a seven-day "Countdown to TagumPIE" special day on May 16–22, and made its official launch on May 23, 2022.
In June 2022, Knowledge Channel moved from Channel 50 to its 2nd subchannel on the Channel 31 digital signal.
On September 13, 2022, BEAM signed an agreement to broadcast the timeshare simulcast with
All TV
All TV (stylized as ALLTV) is a Philippine free-to-air broadcast television network based in Mandaluyong, with its broadcast facilities and studios located at Starmall EDSA-Shaw in EDSA corner Shaw Boulevard; its transmitter is located at th ...
owned by Villar Group's Prime Asset Ventures, Inc. (Streamtech through Planet Cable's
Advanced Media Broadcasting System
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) was added to their subchannel lineup. The said move was done to increase the latter's nationwide reach.
Programming
Digital television
Digital channels
DWKC-DTV currently operates on UHF Channel 31 (575.143 MHz) and is multiplexed into the following subchannels:
Transition to digital television
According to BEAM president Steve Macion, the station is expected to replace the 50 kW (4,050 kilowatt ERP) analog transmitter with a new, DTT-ready transmitter which is currently under transition and would be completed by the end of 2015. Cebu, Davao and Iloilo stations are also expected to upgrade to digital broadcast.
Aside from blocktimers, BEAM is now looking for local and foreign partnerships to allocate and generate content up to eight digital free TV channels.
Globe seeks content partnerships for digital TV venture
ABS-CBNnews.com. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
In 2016, DYCT-DTV
DYCT-DTV, Channel 31, is a digital television station of Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media Inc. Its transmitter is located at Babag Hills, Cebu City.
History
It was started as Cinema Television (or CTV-31) in 1993. It was also the firs ...
and DXKC-DTV
DXKC-DTV, Channel 31, is a digital television station of Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media Inc. Its transmitter is located at Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Brgy. Matina, Davao City.
History
It was started as Cinema Television (or CTV-31 ...
, BEAM's stations in Cebu and Davao, respectively, conducted DTT test transmissions on UHF channel 32. DYRM-DTV
DYRM-DTV, Channel 26, is a digital television station of Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media Inc. Its transmitter is located at Piña-Tamborong-Alaguisoc Road, Barangay Alaguisoc, Jordan, Guimaras at former Globe cell site.
History
It was ...
, BEAM's Iloilo station, conducted its DTT test in 2017.
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
* Metro Manila
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* Cavite
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* Bulacan
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* Laguna
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* Rizal
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Secondary areas
* Portion of Pampanga
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* Portion of Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija, officially the Province of Nueva Ecija ( tgl, Lalawigan ng Nueva Ecija , also ; ilo, Probinsia ti Nueva Ecija; pag, Luyag/Probinsia na Nueva Ecija; Kapampangan: ''Lalawigan/Probinsia ning Nueva Ecija''), is a landlocked province i ...
* Portion of Tarlac
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* Portion of Zambales
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* Portion of Bataan
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* Portion of Batangas
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* Portion of Quezon
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BEAM TV stations in the Philippines
References
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Television channels and stations established in 1993
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Digital television stations in the Philippines