Viva Entertainment

Viva Entertainment Inc.

Type	Multimedia production corporation
Traded as	Viva Communications Inc.
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines (November 11, 1981 (November 11, 1981))
Founder	Vicente "Vic" del Rosario, Jr.
Headquarters	Quezon City and Ortigas Center, Pasig City
Area served	Nationwide
Key people	Vicente "Vic" del Rosario, Jr. (Chairman of the Board and CEO) Vincent G. del Rosario III Veronique del Rosario-Corpus
Products	Motion pictures, television shows, music albums
Website	viva.com.ph

Viva Entertainment Inc. (also known as Viva Communications Inc.) is a Filipino-owned entertainment company based in Quezon City and Pasig City, Philippines. It was founded in 1981 by Vicente "Vic" del Rosario, Jr.^[1][2]

Divisions

• Viva Communications Inc. (VCI)
  • Viva Films
    • Neo Films
    • Falcon Films
  • Viva Television
    • Vintage Television
    • Mega Productions (co-owned by Sharon Cuneta and Vic del Rosario)
• Viva International Pictures (VIP)
• Viva Artists Agency
• Viva Live (formerly Viva Concerts & Events)
  • Oomph! Radio (Ultimate Entertainment)
    • Oomph! Radio 105.1 Cebu
    • Oomph! Radio 97.1 Davao
    • Oomph! Radio 103.5 Zamboanga
• Viva Interactive
• Viva Cable TV
  • PBO: Pinoy Box Office
  • Viva TV (formerly Viva Cinema, from STAR TV package)
  • TMC: Tagalized Movie Channel (co-owned with MVP Entertainment)
  • Sari-Sari Channel (joint venture with Cignal Digital TV/TV5 Network Inc.)
  • Joint venture with A+E Networks
    • History
    • H2
    • Fyi
    • Crime & Investigation Network
    • Lifetime
  • Joint venture with Viacom
    • MTV Pinoy
    • Comedy Central
  • Joint venture with RTL-CBS Asia
    • RTL CBS Entertainment
    • RTL CBS Extreme
  • Joint venture with Celestial Tiger Entertainment
    • Celestial Movies Pinoy
• Viva Sports
  • Viva Sports Management
• Viva Video, Inc. (Viva Communications' home video subsidiary)
• Viva Video City
• Viva Music Group (VMG)
  • Viva Records
  • Vicor Music Philippines
  • Terno Recordings (co-owned with Toti Dalmacion)
• Verje Music Publishing (VMP)
• Harmony Music Publishing
• Amerasian Recording Studios
• Viva Publishing Group
  • Viva PSICOM Publishing Corporation (formerly PSICOM Publishing Inc., 50%) - joint venture with the Gabriel family
  • Viva Starmometer Publishing Corporation (formerly Starmometer Publishing Company, 50%) - joint venture with Edsel Roy
  • VRJ Books Publishing
• Viva International Food & Restaurants
  • Cafe of Tokyo
  • Paper Moon Cake Boutique

Notable brands and subsidiaries

Viva Cable TV

Pinoy Box Office

Viva Cinema

Viva TV

Oomph! Radio

Oomph! Radio

Type	Broadcast radio network
Country	Philippines
Availability	Cebu, Davao and Zamboanga
Founded	2014
Slogan	Nice Paminawon! Sarap Pakinggan! (Nice to listen to)
Owner	Viva Live Inc. (Ultimate Entertainment Inc.)

Oomph! Radio is a brand name for Viva's radio stations. It was launched before the end of 2014 following the acquisition of Ultimate Entertainment and its FM stations, thus it is Viva's new venture into radio broadcasting.

Oomph Radio Stations

Viva Video Inc.

Viva Video Inc. (formerly Viva Home Entertainment, doing business as Viva Video) is the exclusive distributor of video products for local and international studios in the Philippines. Viva Video, Inc. is the home video affiliate of Viva Entertainment, Inc.

Viva Video, Inc. is the home video and DVD distribution arm of Viva Entertainment with the exclusive distributor of video products including films and television series.

The company releases titles from the film and television library of VIVA Films, as well as programs from other Viva Entertainment companies. Currently, they also serve distributor for television and/or movie product licensed by Nickelodeon, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Cartoon Network, Turner Entertainment Co., Cookie Jar Entertainment (partnership with DIC Entertainment until 2008), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Skyfilms, Nine Network (makers of Hi-5 DVD's for the Philippine market), Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Sesame Workshop (makers of Sesame Street), HIT Entertainment, MGA Entertainment, in the United States, and product from VIVA Films, APT Entertainment, OctoArts Films, Regal Entertainment, Solar Entertainment, Studio5, GMA Films, and Star Cinema.

Viva Video holds licensees for:
Local

• Viva Films
• APT Entertainment
• OctoArts Films
• Regal Entertainment
• GMA Films
• Star Cinema
• Solar Entertainment
• Studio5

International

• Cookie Jar Entertainment (formerly Cinar, Filmfair and DIC Entertainment)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (including Touchstone Home Entertainment)
• MGM Home Entertainment, phased out in 2005 as MGM Holdings
• ABC
• MGA Entertainment
• Summit Entertainment
• Lionsgate Home Entertainment
• Syndicate Films
• Emperor Motion Pictures
• Lakeshore Entertainment
• Mandate Pictures
• Icon Entertainment
• Bauer Martinez
• Inferno Distribution
• Cineclick Asia
• Cinema Service
• Miro Vision
• Skyfilms
• Nick Jr.
• Nickelodeon
• Nine Network (makers of Hi-5 DVD's for the Philippine market)
• HIT Entertainment
• Sesame Workshop (makers of Sesame Street DVD's for the Philippine market)
• Cartoon Network
• Turner Entertainment
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment
• Playboy Home Entertainment

Viva Video City

Viva Video City is the video retail affiliate of Viva Video, the home video unit of Viva Entertainment, Inc.

Viva-Psicom Publishing

Viva PSICOM Publishing Corporation (Viva PSICOM) is a publishing company jointly owned by Viva Entertainment and the Gabriel family. It was founded in 1990 by Arnel Jose Gabriel as a small desktop publisher, which later evolved into publishing the first Filipino wholly owned trade newspaper, the now-defunct Philippine IT Update

The company, then known as PSICOM, rose to fame through the Diary ng Panget tetralogy authored by HaveYouSeenThisGirL.

In August 2013, Viva Entertainment acquired 50% of the company stocks, and it was later renamed as Viva-Psicom.

Products

Magazines

• OtakuZine
• Otaku Asia
• OtakuZine Anime Recommendation
• FH&S
• The GOLD Magazine
• Bare

Horror

• True Philippine Ghost Stories (Some stories were later adapted as episodes of GMA Network's Wag Kukurap.)
• Haunted Philippines (Some stories were later adapted as episodes of GMA Network's Wag Kukurap.)
• Pinoy Tales of Terror

Books by well-known authors

• Ramon Bautista (later moved to ABS-CBN Publishing)
• Tado
• Papa Dan of Barangay LS 97.1
• Papa Dudut of Barangay LS 97.1

Wattpad

• HaveYouSeenThisGirL
  • Diary ng Panget
  • Voiceless
  • She Died
  • That Girl
• Aly Almario
  • My Prince
  • He's a Kidnapper
  • The Other Side
  • Reaching You
• Alesana Marie
  • Talk Back and You're Dead
• Marcelo Santos III
  • Para sa Hopeless Romantic (republished)
  • Para sa Broken-Hearted
  • Mahal mo Siya, Mahal Ka Ba?
• Viva PSICOM Dark Series
• Kilig Republic
• GOLD Manga Series

Japanese manga

• Hajime Isayama
  • Attack on Titan
• Mashima Hiro
  • Fairy Tail

References

External links

• Official homepage
• Forum Page
• Viva TV on Satellite TV in the United States
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Twitter
• Instagram

Radio networks in the Philippines
Major networks	Aliw DWIZ 882 97.9 Home Radio Bombo Radyo ABS-CBN DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 MOR 101.9 Brigada News FM RGMA Network Barangay LS 97.1 Super Radyo DZBB 594 MBC DZRH Love Radio Cebu(Easy Rock) Pacific(Aksyon Radyo and Yes FM) MBSI PBC(UNTV) UNTV Radio La Verdad 1350 Wish 107.5 Quest RBN RJ 100.3 DZRJ 810 AM RMN DZXL 558 93.9 iFM RPN SBN TV5 92.3 News FM UBSI
State-owned networks	PBS Radyo ng Bayan 738 IBC
Minor networks	EBC DZEC Radyo Agila 1062 Pinas FM 95.5 MBNI
Religious networks	CMN Radio Veritas 846 CEBSI INC Radio 954 DBS FEBC Philippines NDBC SMNI DZAR 1026 Sonshine Radio UCB Philippines(The Edge Radio) ZOE Broadcasting Network DZJV
Regional networks	ABS-CBN My Only Radio Radyo Patrol Apollo Pampanga CLBC Pampanga RGMA Network Super Radyo Barangay FM MBC Hot FM Radyo Natin MBI PBC Palawan PBN Bicol RadioCorp RPN Radyo Ronda SBC Zambales TV5 Radyo5 Viva/Ultimate Oomph! Radio
Campus radio networks	Adamson University Falcon Radio Station Ateneo de Manila University Magis Radio De La Salle University DWSU Green FM Silliman University Silliman NetRadio University of the Philippines DZUP DZLB DYUP UP-FM Radio University of Santo Tomas UST Tiger Radio
Internet networks	Campus Radio Online Dream FM Network MBC Aksyon Radyo U.S. My Only Radio Live Streaming Radio Pilipinas Sutton Radio
Shortwave	Radio Veritas Radyo Pilipinas
HD Radio	iFM 93.9-2 FM Top 40 Hits iFM 93.9-3 FM Classic Hits MOR 101.9-2 Hits MOR 101.9-3 Easy Listening
DTH satellite	TFC Direct! DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 MOR 101.9
Defunct	Baycomms Broadcasting Corporation