DWCP-TV

DWCP-TV
Metro Manila
City Mandaluyong City
Branding ETC TV-21 Manila
Slogan Take it. Own it. Flaunt it.
#feistierETC
Channels Analog: 21 (UHF)
Digital: 22 (UHF) (ISDB-T) (test broadcast)
Virtual: 255 (LCN)
Subchannels 255.07: ETC
255.08: CT
255.09: 2nd Avenue (DZRJ-TV)
255.10: HSN
255.11: Basketball TV
255.12: ETC 1Seg (1Seg)
255.13: 2nd Avenue 1Seg (1Seg)
Affiliations ETC
Owner Southern Broadcasting Network
(Solar Entertainment Corporation)
Founded May 30, 1992 (1992-05-30)
Former affiliations Independent (1992-2007)
Talk TV (2011-2012)
Solar News Channel (2012-2013)
Transmitter power (TPO:60 KW) (ERP:500 KW/Max ERP:1500 KW)
Website ETC on Solar Entertainment site

DWCP-TV, channel 21 is a television station owned by Southern Broadcasting Network, a subsidiary of Solar Entertainment Corporation, and is currently the flagship station of television network ETC. Its studios are located at Upper Ground Floor Worldwide Corporate Center, Shaw Boulevard corner EDSA, Mandaluyong City, with transmitter located at Nuestra Señora de la Paz Subdivision, Bo. Sta. Cruz, Antipolo City province of 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 broadcasts daily from 6:00 AM to 1:00 AM.

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 in 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. And on October 30, 2012, it is now as the Solar News Channel, the first 24-hour English news channel on free-to-air TV.

On November 30, 2013, the Solar News Channel programming was moved to RPN, and its entertainment channel, ETC came back on SBN-21.

On February 22, 2014, SBN 21 limited its operation to ETC from 5:30 AM to 12:00 MN to 7:00 AM to 12:00 MN on free TV prior to National Telecommunications Commission's rules on affiliated free TV stations. On October 2, 2014, the station extended its operations from 6 AM to 1 AM.

In 2015, SBN ceased using its old analog transmitter tower in 22/F Strata 2000, F. Ortigas Jr. Road, Ortigas Center in Pasig City and began using its newly constructed tower located near Nuestra Señora de la Paz Subdivision, Bo. Sta. Cruz, Antipolo City province of Rizal for a clearer and better signal reception and used to broadcast SBN both in analog and digital.

Coverage areas

Digital television

SBN launches its digital television broadcast in 2015. Solar Entertainment supplies its DTV channels through the new platform. The digital signal, however, is currently under low-power.

Digital channels

UHF Channel 22 (521.143 MHz)

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming Note
255.07 H.264 4:3 ETC on SBN+D Main DWCP-TV Programming/ETC test broadcast
255.08 CT+D CT offline
255.09 2NDAVENUE on RJTV+D Main DZRJ-TV Programming/2nd Avenue test broadcast
255.10 HSN+D Shop TV offline
255.11 BTV+D Basketball TV
255.12 ETC 1Seg ETC 1Seg 1Seg (offline)
255.13 2nd Avenue 1Seg 2nd Avenue 1Seg

ETC programs

See also

References

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