DYCB-TV

DYCB-TV (ABS-CBN TV-3 Cebu)

Cebu City
Branding	ABS-CBN TV-3 Cebu
Slogan	In The Service of The Filipino Worldwide
Channels	Analog: 3 (VHF) Digital: 5 (VHF)
Translators	D-9-YA 9 Bohol D-7-YF 7 Siquijor DY-13-YG 13 Barili, Cebu
Affiliations	ABS-CBN
Owner	ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
Founded	1961
Call letters' meaning	DY Chronicle Broadcasting (former owner prior to its merger with ABS)
Sister station(s)	DYAC-TV 23 (Studio 23)
Former callsigns	DYCW-TV (1973-1978)
Former affiliations	BBC (1973-1978) GTV/MBS (1978-1986)
Transmitter power	50,000 Watts (200,000 Watts ERP) (DYAC-TV)10,000 watts (138,700 watts ERP)
Website	www.abs-cbn.com

DYCB-TV, channel 3, is a television station of Philippine television network ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation in Cebu. The station's studio is located at the ABS-CBN Central Visayas Broadcasting Complex in North Road Jagobiao, Cebu City, and its transmitter station is located at Mount Busay Babag 1, Cebu City, Philippines. In the year 2011, the station will celebrate its 50th anniversary as the first ever television station outside Metro Manila with the 50th anniversary of ABS-CBN and the Philippine television in 2003.

Timeline

• June 14, 1961 - DYCB-TV 3, the first provincial TV station in the Philippines, was launched by ABS-CBN (then known as Bolinao Electronics Corporation). It first aired a four-hour-a-day schedule (6:00-10:00pm), transmitting on a 50-mile radius within Cebu and nearby islands. The station's 390-foot transmission tower (then the tallest structure in Cebu) was originally from the network's flagship TV station, DZAQ-TV 3, used during the first telecasts in 1953.

• 1973 - After the declaration of Martial Law by then-President Ferdinand Marcos, and the takeover of ABS-CBN by his crony, Roberto Benedicto, DYCB-TV reopened as DYCW-TV, and became part of the Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation (along with another ABS-CBN provincial stations, DYXL-TV 4 in Bacolod and DYAF-TV in Iloilo).

• 1978 - Channel 3 became an owned-and-operated station of the government-owned GTV (later the Maharlika Broadcasting System, now National Broadcasting Network). The call letters were reverted to the original DYCB-TV.

• 1986 - DYCB-TV reopened under ABS-CBN, its original owner.

• 1987 - DYCB-TV introduced the Star Network with the famous numerical gold tri-ribbon channel 3 logo with a star.

• 1988 - TV Patrol Central Visayas becomes the first flagship newscast.

• 1989 - DYCB-TV setup its domestic satellite broadcast from Manila.

ABS-CBN Cebu Programs

• Maayong Buntag Kapamilya
• Kapamilya Winner Ka!
• Mag TV Na
• TV Patrol Central Visayas
• Halad Sa Kapamilya
• Sinulog Festival (annually)

See also

• List of ABS-CBN channels and stations
• DYAB
• DYLS-FM
• DWWX-TV