Television station in Metro Cebu
DYPT-TV, channel 11, is a Regional television station of Philippine-government owned television network People's Television Network. Its transmitter is located at Mt. Busay Television Broadcast Site, Sitio Babag, Brgy. Busay, Cebu City.[1] The station is currently planning to upgrade to an originating station in the future after the Visayas Media Hub in Mandaue City will be completed in 2024.
History
- September 11, 1963 - PTV began its broadcasts in Cebu via Channel 11, a frequency originally owned 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 was the first television station in Central Visayas.
- 1978 - DYGT-TV switched affiliation to Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation, with its new call sign DYCW-TV. On the same year, GTV was transferred to Channel 3 under the call sign DYCB-TV, then was renamed Maharlika Broadcasting System (MBS) in 1980.
- February 24, 1986 - The station was officially rebranded as People's Television (PTV).
- 1988 - PTV returned to Channel 11, with Channel 3 being taken over by ABS-CBN. Its call letters were changed to DYPT-TV. Back then, its studios were located at the former NMPC Bldg. along A.C. Cortes Ave., Mandaue (now demolished in 2011).
- January 15, 2011 - The station suddenly went off the air for facility upgrades.
- August 29, 2015 - After 4 years of being silence in the area, PTV-11 Cebu resumed its operations, 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, Brgy. Busay, Cebu City, coinciding with the conduct of the APEC Summit in the city.[2]
- June 1, 2018 - PTV Cebu started its ISDB-T digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 42.
- December 16, 2021 - PTV Cebu went off the air for the second time following the effects of Typhoon "Rai" (Odette) in Cebu, Bohol and Leyte, causing the transmitter was struck brought by the said typhoon.
- January 2022 - The station returned on-air once again after power was restored in Brgy. Babag.
Digital television
Digital channels
DYPT-TV broadcast its digital signal on UHF Channel 42 (641.143 MHz) and is multiplexed into the following subchannels:
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Secondary areas
See also
External links
References
- ^ "NTC Region 7 Radio and TV Broadcast Station". region7.ntc.gov.ph. September 6, 2023.
- ^ "PTV 11 Cebu back on air". Philippine Information Agency. September 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
