INC TV

PHILIPPINE TELEVISION WIKI

INC TV

CITY

Quezon City

OWNER

Christian Era Broadcasting Service

FOUNDED

2000

INC TV is a Philippine television network owned by Christian Era Broadcasting Service International, a broadcast ministry of the independent Philippine Christian church,[1] the Iglesia ni Cristo. INC TV's studios and transmitters are located at Redeemer Street, Milton Hills Subdivision, Brgy. New Era, Quezon City.

History

INC TV was first launched in 2000 as a cable-only television station under the longer name Iglesia ni Cristo Television, carrying the Church's long line of evangelical television programs that had begun in 1983 on the then Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation and on other TV networks in the country. The arrival of Net 25, joined by the launch of the cable station, unified all the shows into two stations, one on cable and one on FTA television. In mid-2005, the cable station was relaunched as GEM TV (Global Expansion Media Television), with a mix of religious and secular programs.

On October 9, 2012, GEM TV Channel 49 on Free TV began test broadcasts. On October 31, 2012, coinciding with the birthday of Iglesia ni Cristo's Executive Minister Eduardo Manalo, GEM TV on cable was soon relaunched once again as INC TV, this time expanding into free-to-air television with 17 hours of broadcasts (24 hours on cable). INC TV 49 shows religious programs of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, before its relaunch Deutsche Welle programs were also aired on the channel. And INCTV known before as GEMTV was the first broadcast television network in the Philippines to formally launch in high-definition and in digital terrestrial television using the ISDB-T system.

INC TV stations

INC TV on Free TV

BrandingCallsignCh. #Power (kW)Station TypeLocation

INC TV-48 ManilaDZCE-TVTV-4830 kWOriginatingMetro Manila

Digital TV

DZCE broadcasts its digital signal on UHF Channel 49 (683.143 MHz) and is multiplexed into the following subchannels:

ChannelVideoAspectPSIP Short NameProgrammingNote

1.11080i16:9INCTV HDINC TVTest Broadcast

1.2NET25 HDNet 25

1.3480iINCTV SDINC TV

Worldwide

INCTV reaches TV audiences on the Eastern and Pacific coasts, United States, Alaska and Hawaii and the whole of Asia including Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau (in Portuguese), Taiwan, China as well as Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Turkey, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Monaco, Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and the entire continent of Europe.

Analog-to-digital conversion

From September 7, 2017, in time for its 8th year since INC's Executive Minister Eduardo Manalo entered office, INCTV was granted a "special authority" from the National Telecommunications Commission to moved its analog feed from UHF Channel 49 to Channel 48 to allow the former channel to simulcast digitally in full-time, which began two days earlier (September 5). The shift was arranged for the station until its management announce its intention to permanently shut down analog broadcasts and go digital-only.

Events

Recent Events

In time for the INC Centennial Year new programs were created for the channel in 2014, which also saw the start of a new tradition - themes for the month, which are also promoted in Net 25 as well since recently.

From 2014, INC TV became the first Filipino religious TV network to broadcast its floatable digital clock during the course of the network's broadcast. The said move, however abandoned in January 2018, as the network finally transitioned to 16:9 screen ratio.

In 2015, two DZEM radio programs began to be shown on the channel as well.

In 2016, INCTV, the newest member of the Anak TV, bagged the most number of child-friendly television program awards (23 in all) in the Anak TV Seal Awards, the biggest for a young channel as this.[2]

In 2018, the channel's news programming was revamped, and currently several of these are now bilingual to serve the needs of the church's local and international membership.

See also

Christian Era Broadcasting Service International

Eagle FM 95.5

Eagle Broadcasting Corporation

Net 25

DZEC Radyo Agila 1062

INC Radio DZEM 954 kHz

Nueva Ecija Television

Sonshine Media Network International

TV Maria

References

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External links

INC TV Official Website

Iglesia ni Cristo Official Website

Television in the Philippines

Free-to-air television networks

Major

TV5 Network: TV5 | RPTV | One Sports

State media (PCO)

PTNI: PTV | Congress TV | Radyo Pilipinas 1 | PTV Plus

Minor

EBC/CEBSI: Net 25 | INC TV

PBC: UNTV | Truth Channel

SBN/Solar: SolarFlix | Solar Learning | Shop TV

ZOE A2Z | Light TV | ZOE TV

Regional

Defunct/Inactive

Awards and events

GMMSF Box Office Entertainment Awards (1971) | PMPC Star Awards (1987) | ENPRESS Golden Screen TV (2004)

Lists:

List of television stations (Analog, Digital) | List of years in Philippine television | List of Philippine drama series | List of Philippine television shows

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