DWCP-DTV
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| City | Mandaluyong |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | Solar Flix TV-21 Manila |
| Programming | |
| Subchannels | See list |
| Affiliations |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Southern Broadcasting Network (a subsidiary of Solar Entertainment Corporation) |
| History | |
| Founded | May 30, 1992 |
Former call signs | DWCP-TV (1992-2019) |
Former channel number(s) | |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | NTC |
| Power | Digital: 3 kW |
| Transmitter coordinates | 14°36′21.5″N 121°10′13.9″E / 14.605972°N 121.170528°E |
| Links | |
| Website | etc.com.ph |
DWCP-DTV (digital UHF and virtual channel 21) is a digital television station owned by Southern Broadcasting Network, a subsidiary of Solar Entertainment Corporation, and is currently the flagship station of Philippine television network, SolarFlix. Its studios are located at the Third Floor Worldwide Corporate Center, Shaw Boulevard corner EDSA, Mandaluyong, with transmitter facilities located at the Solar Entertainment Complex, along Nuestra Señora de la Paz Subdivision, Barangay Sta. Cruz, Antipolo, Rizal.[1] SBN-21 became the first local UHF TV station in Metro Manila that broadcast in May 1992 and formerly known as World TV 21. It operates 24 hours daily on cable and satellite TV providers, while it operates daily from 8:00am to 12:00mn on Digital Free TV.
As of September 12, 2019, the station's analog signal is permanently off the air.
History
Southern Broadcasting Network of Davao launched SBN Channel 21, the first local UHF TV station in Metro Manila since 1992. It was then known as World TV 21 by Kampana Television Corporation, which provided programming content from ABC, CNN and ESPN on this channel then. The idea is to bring back programming similar to the forcibly shut-down FEN Channel 17 of the former Clark US Air Base a year earlier due to the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.
Beginning on January 1, 2008, Solar Entertainment began to lease airtime on SBN, choosing to broadcast programming from its entertainment channel ETC.[2] This partnership ended on March 2, 2011, as Solar transferred ETC to RPN. As a result, SBN renewed partnership with Solar Entertainment to create the news network Talk TV. On October 30, 2012, the channel was renamed as the Solar News Channel.
On December 1, 2013, SNC's programming was moved to RPN for wider national coverage, with ETC returned to SBN a day before.
In 2015, SBN ceased using its old analog transmitter tower at Strata 2000 building in Pasig (which was obvious to consider even after Solar's purchase of SBN due to the old Sign-on and Sign-off sequences) and began using Solar's newly constructed tower located in Antipolo for a clearer and better signal reception in both the analog and digital signals.
As of September 12, 2019, SBN closed down its analog signal in favor of digital TV broadcast.
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Secondary areas
- Pampanga
- Portion of Nueva Ecija
- Portion of Tarlac
- Portion of Zambales
- Portion of Bataan
- Portion of Batangas
- Portion of Quezon
Digital television
SBN launches its digital television broadcast in 2015. Solar Entertainment supplies its DTV channels through the new platform. For unknown reasons, the transmitter's encryption system was activated throughout its run, making two of the station's subchannels receivable only on set-top boxes with this capability. The technical issue was fixed by September 25, 2017.
Digital channels
DWCP-TV operates on UHF Channel 21 (515.143 MHz).
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming | Note |
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| 21.02 | 480i | 4:3 | SolarFlix | SolarFlix | Test Broadcast |
| 21.03 | Shop TV | Shop TV | |||
| 21.04 | DepEd ALS | Solar Learning (DepEd TV ALS) | |||
| 21.05 | DepEd NCR Prime | Solar Learning (DepEd TV NCR Prime) | |||
| 21.06 | Reserved Channel | Reserved |
Analog-to-digital transition
On September 12, 2019, SBN closed down UHF Channel 21's analog signal in preparation of the DTV transition implementation. SBN is the 5th television network in the Philippines to permanently terminate its analog TV broadcasts, and go digital only.
See also
References
- ^ TV Stations in the Philippines
- ^ "ETC Available on SBN 21". Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
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