Home Cable was a

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service in the

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. It covered parts of

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from April 27, 1992, until its closure on June 30, 2005, when it was folded into

Sky Cable Sky Cable (stylized as SKYcable) is a cable television service of Sky Cable Corporation in the Philippines. It covers areas across the country with both digital and analog cable services, and it has 700,000 subscribers, controlling 45% of ...

's operations. Beyond Cable Holdings, a 50-50

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firm owned by Benpres Holdings (now

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) and

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-backed media firm

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, was the parent company of Home Cable.

History

Sining Makulay, Inc.

The origins of Home Cable can be traced to Sining Makulay, Inc. (SMI), the first commercial cable television company in the Philippines which was granted an exclusive franchise in 1978 (under

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No. 1512) and began its operations in 1979. SMI was owned by

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, a businessman and a political

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of then-

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. In 1987, President

Corazon Aquino Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People P ...

issued Executive Order No. 50 which ended the monopoly of SMI and the company ceased operations. In the 1990s, SMI was eventually bought by Unilink Communications Corporation.

Home Cable

After the acquisition by Unilink Communications Corporation, SMI resumed its cable operations as Home Cable and was officially launched on April 27, 1992, competing with

, a newly established media investment firm of

, acquired Home Cable in July 1999. On July 1, 2001, Sky Cable owner Benpres Holdings and MediaQuest entered into a master consolidation agreement to form the

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Beyond Cable, Inc. with an enterprise value of ₱14.5 billion to manage both operations of Sky Cable and Home Cable. On June 30, 2005, Home Cable ceased its operations. It was replaced by SkyCable Silver.

References

External links

www.home-cable.com
on the

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History

Sining Makulay, Inc.

Home Cable

See also

References

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