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Cable television in the Philippines was introduced in 1969 with the first commercial service of Nuvue Cablevision (later absorbed 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 t ...
); Satellite television in the Philippines was introduced in 2001 with the first commercial broadcast of
Dream Satellite TV Dream Satellite TV was the first all-digital Direct-To-Home (DTH) television broadcasting service via satellite in the Philippines. Broadcasting from the Dream Broadcast Center located at the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga. Content is rec ...
(now defunct); and IPTV and digital over-the-top streaming services in the Philippines was introduced in 2010 with the first commercial broadcast of
iWant TV iWantTFC is a Filipino over-the-top content platform and production company owned and operated by ABS-CBN Digital Media, a division of ABS-CBN Corporation, formed in 2020 through the merger of two streaming services iWant and TFC Online. In ad ...
(now iWant TFC), before the arrival of international-based streaming services such as
iflix WeTV iflix, or simply iflix, is a Malaysian free and subscription video on demand (VOD) service focused on emerging markets. Its global headquarters are in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The site serves as a digital hosting and distribution platform fo ...
and
Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fil ...
. There are two non-profit organizations that represent the cable television industry, namely: the Federation of International Cable TV and Telecommunications Association of the Philippines (FICTAP), and the Philippine Cable and Telecommunications Association (PCTA).


Cable television

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 t ...
,
Destiny Cable Destiny Cable (formerly Global Destiny Cable and stylized as DESTINY CABLE) was a direct-to-home cable television subscription service based in Quezon City. Destiny Cable was the 2nd largest cable TV provider in the Philippines. It was owned by ...
, and
Cablelink Cablelink (formerly known as Conception Pay TV Network) is a subscription-based cable antenna television system operator and broadband Internet service provider in the Philippines which commenced its CATV operation in 1995. It is owned and operate ...
are currently the primary cable operators in the country. There are also local regional companies, such as Air Cable in Pampanga and Rizal,
Asian Vision Asian Vision Cable Holdings, Inc. (Asian Vision) is a telecommunications company in the Philippines. Founded in 1972 by Ramon "Jun" Magsaysay Jr., it was the second commercial cable television service in the country as Colorview CATV in Zamb ...
in Zambales, Batangas and Quezon, Royal Cable in Laguna, Filproducts TV in Visayas, and
Parasat Cable TV Parasat Cable Television (stylized upper case as PARASAT with a satellite dish icon) is a Philippine cable television operator billed as Mindanao's only digital television system and fiber broadband internet provider. It is based in Cagayan de Or ...
in Northern Mindanao.


Satellite television

Direct-to-home satellite television is offered through
G Sat G-Sat (''Global Satellite'') is a subscription-based direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service commercially available in the Philippines. G-Sat is owned by Global Satellite Technology Services (GSTS), registered in the Philippines with t ...
,
Cignal Cignal (pronounced as ''signal'') is a Philippine satellite television and IPTV provider, owned by Cignal TV Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the MediaQuest Holdings Inc. under the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund. Cignal's prepaid electronic ...
, and SatLite. Previously,
Sky Direct Sky Direct was a direct-broadcast satellite subscription television service in the Philippines owned and operated by Sky, a subsidiary of ABS-CBN. Sky Cable had been eyeing for a DBS service and considered on acquiring Dream Satellite TV from Ant ...
offered the service from 2016 to 2020.


Internet television

With the advent of digital streaming services in 2016, there are active video streaming services available in the Philippines namely:


See also

*
Television in the Philippines Television in the Philippines was introduced in October 1953 upon the first commercial broadcast made by Alto Broadcasting System (now ABS-CBN), making the Philippines the first Southeast Asian country and the second in Asia to do so. Even b ...
*
Digital television in the Philippines Digital terrestrial television in the Philippines are in development by the Philippine major broadcasting companies. The Philippines uses the American NTSC standard for analog television since color television arrived in November 1966. The Na ...


References


External links


Federation of International Cable TV and Telecommunications Association of the PhilippinesPhilippine Cable and Telecommunications Association
{{Philippine subscription channels
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Cable Cable may refer to: Mechanical * Nautical cable, an assembly of three or more ropes woven against the weave of the ropes, rendering it virtually waterproof * Wire rope, a type of rope that consists of several strands of metal wire laid into a hel ...