DYPT-TV

DYPT-TV (PTV-11 Cebu)
Metro Cebu;
City	Cebu City
Channels	Analog: 11 (VHF); Digital: 42 (UHF) (ISDB-T) (Test Broadcast); Virtual: 11 (LCN);
Branding	PTV-11 Cebu
Programming
Affiliations	PTV (O&O)
Ownership
Owner	People's Television Network, Inc.
History
Founded	September 11, 1963; 60 years ago; August 30, 2015; 8 years ago
Former call signs	DYMT-TV (1963-1972); DYCW-TV (1978-1986)
Former channel number(s)	3 (1978-1988)
Former affiliations	Associated Broadcasting Corporation (1963-1972); BBC (1978-1986)
Call sign meaning	DY; People's; Television
Technical information
Licensing authority	NTC
ERP	10,000 watts (analog); 1 kW (digital)
Transmitter coordinates	10°21′50.6″N 123°51′17.4″E / 10.364056°N 123.854833°E
Links
Website	www.ptv.ph ; ptv11cebu.weebly.com

DYPT-TV, channel 11, is a relay television station of Philippine-government owned television network People's Television Network. Its transmitter are located at Mt. Busay Television Broadcast Site, Sitio Babag, Brgy. Busay, Cebu City. The station is currently planning to upgrade to an originating station in the future after the Visayas Media Hub is completed.

It opened in 1978 as the network's local station for the province, and has been airing on the Channel 11 frequency since 1988.

History

September 11, 1963 - PTV begin its broadcasts in Cebu via Channel 11, which was launched 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 is the first television station in Central Visayas.
1978 - DYGT-TV switched affiliation to Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation, with call sign changed to DYCW-TV. On the same year, GTV was transferred to Channel 3 under the call sign DYCB-TV, then upon became Maharlika Broadcasting System (MBS) in 1980.
February 24, 1986 - Following the People Power Revolution on which it was taken over by pro-Corazon Aquino, the station was officially rebranded as People's Television (PTV).
1988 - PTV took over Channel 11 frequency, it changed its call letters to DYPT-TV which upgraded as originating station seven years later. As Channel 3 became the first regional television station for ABS-CBN in the city, the station was reopened with a new frequency, Channel 11 which was used formerly by ABC, TV5 Cebu is currently broadcasts on UHF Channel 21 and Channel 7 remains the originating station of GMA in the Cebu area.
2011 - After it was lasted for twenty-five years in Cebu, the station suddenly went off the air needed to upgrade its facilities.
August 29, 2015 - PTV-11 Cebu resumes its operations and downgraded to relay (satellite-selling) station, 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, Barangay Busay, Cebu City, coinciding with the APEC Summit held in the city after it went off the air for 4 years.^[1]
June 1, 2018 - PTV Cebu started digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 42.

PTV Cebu local programmings

Formerly-produced or distributed programs

The Governor Reports (1981–1986)
Newscenter 3 Cebu

Digital television

Digital channels

UHF Channel 42 (641.143 MHz)

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming	Note
11.01	1080i	16:9	PTV HD1	PTV	Test Broadcast
11.02	480i		PTV HD2	PCOOTV
11.03	480i		PTV SD3	Salaam TV
11.04	240p	4:3	PTV 1seg	PTV	1seg

External links

Radio and TV broadcast stations of Region VII: Cebu province, National Telecommunications Commission (Philippines)

References

^ "PTV 11 Cebu back on air". Philippine Information Agency. September 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.

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[1] "PTV 11 Cebu back on air". Philippine Information Agency. September 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.

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