Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation
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| Type | Broadcast television network |
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| Country |  Philippines |
| Availability | Defunct |
| Owner | Salvador Tan, Roberto Benedicto |
| Key people | Ferdinand Marcos |
| Launch date | November 1973 |
| Dissolved | July 15, 1986 |
Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation was a Philippine television network that started operations in November 1973 and ended on February 25, 1986.
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History
The DWWX-TV (formerly named DZAQ-TV) station owned by ABS-CBN, which had shut down after the declaration of martial law, served as the flagship station of BBC. The network became well-remembered for its trademark jingle, "Big Beautiful Country", composed by Jose Mari Chan.
BBC originally operated out of the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center on Sgt. Esguerra (formerly Bohol) Avenue in Quezon City. Roberto Benedicto, a crony of former President Ferdinand Marcos and owner of Radio Philippines Network (alternately known at that time as Kanlaon Broadcasting System), took over the broadcast facility after the KBS Studios at Roxas Boulevard in Pasay (which were, incidentally, sold to them by ABS-CBN in 1969) were destroyed by fire in June 1973, a few months before BBC went on the air. In 1976, BBC, RPN and another Benedicto-owned network, Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (which originally aired from San Juan), transferred to the Broadcast City compound in Old Balara, Quezon City and the transmitter located at Panay Ave, Quezon City, leaving Channel 4 (also formerly owned by ABS-CBN, but was taken over and reopened by the government as GTV in 1974) at the ABS-CBN compound, then renamed Broadcast Plaza.
By December 1973, the network also operated DYCB-TV 3 in Cebu and DYXL-TV 4 in Bacolod, both of which were also originally owned by ABS-CBN. Their call signs were also changed to DYCW-TV and DYBW-TV, respectively. The Cebu and Bacolod stations switched affiliations to GTV-4 (later MBS) in 1978 (and reverted to their former call letters) and were returned to ABS-CBN in 1986.
BBC-2 was rebranded as City 2 Television from 1980 to 1984, and rebranded again as BBC-2 with a different logo during its last years of broadcast before the EDSA Revolution.
After Corazon Aquino became president in 1986, BBC was shut down after being sequestered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government, due to its part in the Marcos regime. DWWX-TV, which was vacant from February 25, was given back to the ABS-CBN network on July 16, 1986.
Programming (Local)
- Ang Iglesia ni Cristo (first INC program on Philippine television, aired in 1983)
- Alindog
- 2 Plus 2
- BBC Balita/BBC Balita Late Night Edition (retitled "City 2 Balita" after the "City 2" rebranding)
- BBC Afternoon Theater
- The Big, Big Show
- Dos Por Dos
- PST
- Okey Sha!
- VIP (Vilma in Person)
- Dulambuhay ni Rosa Vilma
- Eliza
- Batman & Robin
- Abbott and Costello
- Nagmamahal, Amalia
- TV POWWW
- Kiddie Pow!
- Ariel after Six
- Nanette Por Kilo
- Ariel con Tina
- Odyssey 2
- Weekend Thriller
- Big Ike's Happening...Now!
- Ladies and Gentlemen...
- Kuarta o Kahon
- Buhok-Pinoy
- Coffee with Lee Andres
- JQ on Cue
- Karnabal Dos
- Blu
- Celeste
- Rico Baby
- Broadcast Campus
- Gulong ng Palad
- Ilaw ng Tahanan
- Tang-tarang-tang
- The Pilita and Jackie Show
- Nothing But the Truth
- PBA on BBC
- NFL on City2
- Banana Sundae
- Peping
Radio stations
- DWWA 1206 - Metro Manila (Call letters were changed to DWAN. It was later owned by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation and then under the management of MMDA. This station is currently inactive.)
- DWWK-FM/DWOK-FM 101.9 - Metro Manila (The frequency was awarded to ABS-CBN in 1986. It is currently known as Tambayan 101.9.)
See also
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