DYPT-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Metro Cebu, Philippines, serving as the Visayas flagship of the government-owned People's Television Network. The station maintains hybrid analog/digital transmitting facility at Sitio Babag, Brgy. Busay, Cebu City.[1]

DYPT-TV (PTV-11 Cebu)

"Ang Pambansang TV sa Bagong Pilipinas"
CityCebu City
Channels
BrandingPTV-11 Cebu/PTV-11 Central Visayas
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerPeople's Television Network, Inc.
History
FoundedSeptember 11, 1963; 61 years ago (1963-09-11)
August 29, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-08-29)
Former call signs
DYMT-TV (1963-1972)
DYCW-TV (1973-1986)
As GTV/MBS:
DYCB-TV (1978-1986)
Former channel number(s)
As GTV/MBS:
3 (1978-1988)
Associated Broadcasting Corporation (1963-1972)
BBC (1973-1986)
Call sign meaning
DY
People's
Television
Technical information
Licensing authority
NTC
PowerAnalog: 10 kW
Digital: 1 kW
ERPAnalog: 30 kW
Transmitter coordinates10°21′50.6″N 123°51′17.4″E / 10.364056°N 123.854833°E / 10.364056; 123.854833
Links
Websitewww.ptni.gov.ph
ptv11cebu.weebly.com

The station is currently planning to upgrade to an originating station in the future after the Visayas Media Hub in Mandaue City will be completed in 2024.

History

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  • September 11, 1963 - PTV began its broadcasts in Cebu via Channel 11, a frequency originally owned 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 was the first television station in Central Visayas.
  • 1978 - DYGT-TV switched affiliation to Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation, with its new call sign DYCW-TV. On the same year, GTV was transferred to Channel 3 under the call sign DYCB-TV, then was renamed Maharlika Broadcasting System (MBS) in 1980.
  • February 24, 1986 - The station was officially rebranded as People's Television (PTV).
  • 1988 - PTV returned to Channel 11, with Channel 3 being taken over by ABS-CBN. Its call letters were changed to DYPT-TV. Back then, its studios were located at the former NMPC Bldg. along A.C. Cortes Ave., Mandaue (now demolished in 2011).
  • January 15, 2011 - The station suddenly went off the air for facility upgrades.
  • August 29, 2015 - After 4 years of being silence in the area, PTV-11 Cebu resumed its operations, 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, Brgy. Busay, Cebu City, coinciding with the conduct of the APEC Summit in the city.[2]
  • June 1, 2018 - PTV Cebu started its ISDB-T digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 42.
  • December 16, 2021 - PTV Cebu went off the air for the second time following the effects of Typhoon "Rai" (Odette) in Cebu, Bohol and Leyte, causing the transmitter was struck brought by the said typhoon.
  • January 2022 - The station returned on-air once again after power was restored in Brgy. Babag.

Digital television

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Digital channels

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DYPT-TV broadcast its digital signal on UHF Channel 42 (641.143 MHz) and is multiplexed into the following subchannels:

Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming Note
04.01 480i 16:9 PTV HD1 PTV Cebu (Main DYPT-TV programming) Test Broadcast (1 kW)
04.02 PTV SD2 PTV Sports
04.03 PTV SD3 Test Feed
04.04 240p 4:3 PTV 1seg PTV 1seg

Areas of coverage

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Primary areas

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Secondary areas

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "NTC Region 7 Radio and TV Broadcast Station". region7.ntc.gov.ph. September 6, 2023.
  2. ^ "PTV 11 Cebu back on air". Philippine Information Agency. September 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.