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| City | Quezon City |
| Channels | |
| Branding | S+A Channel 23 |
| Programming | |
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| History | |
| Founded | May 5, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-05-05) |
First air date | May 5, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-05-05) |
Last air date | May 5, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-5-5) (legislative franchise lapsed) |
Former call signs | DWST/DZEE-TV (1992-1996) |
Call sign meaning | DW ArcadioCarandang orAMCARA (ABS-CBN / AMCARA operations; 1996-2020) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | NTC |
| Power | 50 kW (30 kW operational) |
| ERP | 10,000 kW |
| Links | |
| Website | sports |
DWAC-TV, Channel 23, was theflagshipUHF station ofPhilippine all-sportstelevision networkABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A), a fully owned subsidiary ofABS-CBN Corporation. Its studios and transmitter are located atABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Mother Ignacia Avenue corner Sergeant Esguerra Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.
The station was acquired from Ermita Electronics Corporation in July 1996, which initially owned the frequency of the station that began airing in May 1992 from a densely populated commercial area in Quezon City with a rebroadcast ofMTV Asia, then telecasting from theSTAR TV platform. It was later showingChannel [V] refeeds from 1994 onwards as MTV made the decision to split from STAR and form its own satellite TV portal in Asia.
Just two years later in 1996, MTV Asia returned to the Philippine airwaves after establishing a new regional base in Singapore. ABS-CBN was picked as the broadcast arm of MTV Asia in the Philippines at the time, and Channel 23 started test broadcasts in September 1996 with rebroadcasts of the new MTV Asia from Singapore. A month later, it launched its own programming under the station name Studio 23 and adopted the slogan "Premium Television". It also became the first UHF TV station in Metro Manila to broadcast in full surround stereo, and the fourth television station in the country to broadcast in stereo (afterGMA-7 in 1987,SBN 21 in 1992, andRPN 9 in 1994). The station initially ran MTV rebroadcasts in the day, and ran its own shows at primetime. It also ran for 24 hours, but later reneging to a 21-hour broadcast (from 6 am to 3 am), owing to financial limitations. That has been the broadcast arrangement ever since.
Five years later, MTV Asia acquired a new local UHF frequency,Channel 41 owned byNation Broadcasting Corporation (which is nowOne Sports, now co-owned byTV5) and Studio 23 formally became a full-fledged station, adopting rebroadcasts of its in-house cable channelMyx to fill in the void left by MTV Asia, and came up with intensified programming led by the popular reality TV game showSurvivor, and several top rate US shows like7th Heaven,Will and Grace andCharmed, among others.
By 2004, the channel opened its doors toTaglish programs. It also by that time adopted a new slogan, "Kabarkada Mo!". Previous to this trend, the station was already running its own English newscast,News Central, from 1998 to 2010, effectively replacing the network'sNews 23. It also geared its mostly young viewers to trends in the tech world withDigital World. With the intensified Taglish presence, Studio 23 launched the nightly Tagalog gag newscastWazzup Wazzup, the interactive youth talk showY-Speak, and several others. It even provided support shows to its highly successful local reality programsPinoy Big Brother andPinoy Dream Academy, both acquired fromEndemol of the Netherlands and are big hits onChannel 2.
In 1998, ABS-CBN, through its sports division,ABS-CBN Sports, used Studio 23 to highlight its own professional basketball league, theMetropolitan Basketball Association (MBA). The league adopted the home and away format used by the American professional league theNational Basketball Association (NBA). (It however sold the franchise of the league after incurring heavy losses.) It marked the network's first serious foray into sports programming.
Later, that would be added by acquiring broadcast rights to the collegiate leaguesUAAP andNCAA and thePBL.
It carried a wide variety of local sporting competitions, many of which involved neighborhood schools and showcasing budding Filipino sports talents.
Sports programming in Channel 23 was fully expanded with the launch ofABS-CBN Sports+Action on January 18, 2014, replacing Studio 23.[1][2]
On August 29, 2016, in time with theNational Heroes Day celebration, ABS-CBN Sports+Action was renamed as simply S+A (S and A).
On May 5, 2020, S+A Manila went off-air due to thecease and desist order from theNational Telecommunications Commission (NTC)after its franchise expiration.[3]
On January 5, 2022, its former UHF frequencies (channel 23 and 43) were assigned by NTC toAliw Broadcasting Corporation (forchannel 23) andSwara Sug Media Corporation (forchannel 43);[4] the former began conducting test broadcast since May 6, 2022.
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming | Note |
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| 1.01 | 480i | 4:3 | ABS-CBN | ABS-CBN | Commercial broadcast |
| 1.02 | SPORTS+ACTION | S+A | |||
| 1.03 | CINEMO! | Cine Mo! | Encrypted | ||
| 1.04 | YEY! | Yey! | |||
| 1.05 | DZMM Teleradyo | DZMM TeleRadyo | |||
| 1.06 | KBO | Kapamilya Box Office | Pay per view | ||
| 1.31 | 240p | ABS-CBN OneSeg | ABS-CBN | 1seg broadcast |
UHF Channel 16 (485.143 MHz)1
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.01 | 480i | 4:3 | Knowledge Channel | Knowledge Channel | Test broadcast |
| 2.02 | 16:9 | O SHOPPING | O Shopping | ||
| 2.03 | 4:3 | ASIANOVELA CHANNEL | Asianovela Channel | Encrypted (on free trial)2 | |
| 2.04 | MOVIE CENTRAL | Movie Central | |||
| 2.05 | JEEPNEY TV | Jeepney TV | |||
| 2.06 | MYX | Myx | |||
| 2.31 | 240p | ASIANOVELA ONESEG | Asianovela Channel | 1seg broadcast |
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