DYPT-TV

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.

DYPT-TV (PTV-11 Cebu)
"Para sa Bayan"
CityCebu City
Channels
BrandingPTV-11 Cebu/PTV-11 Central Visayas
Programming
AffiliationsPTV
Ownership
OwnerPeople's Television Network, Inc.
History
FoundedSeptember 11, 1963 (1963-09-11)
August 29, 2015 (2015-08-29)
Former call signs
DYMT-TV (1963-1972)
DYCW-TV (1978-1986)
Former channel number(s)
3 (1978-1988)
Associated Broadcasting Corporation (1963-1972)
BBC (1978-1986)
Call sign meaning
DY
People's
Television
Technical information
Licensing authority
NTC
PowerAnalog: 10 kW
Digital: 5 kW
Transmitter coordinates10°21′50.6″N 123°51′17.4″E
Links
Websitewww.ptni.gov.ph
ptv11cebu.weebly.com

History
  • 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 original 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 - 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, Barangay Busay, Cebu City, coinciding with the conduct of the APEC Summit in the city.[1]
  • 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 after power was restored in Brgy. Babag.

Digital television

Digital channels

DYPT-TV broadcasts 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 1080i 16:9 PTV HD1 PTV Cebu (Main DYPT-TV programming) Test Broadcast (5 kW)
04.02 480i PTV SD2 Test Feed
04.03 PTV SD3
04.04 240p 4:3 PTV 1seg PTV 1seg

See also

References
  1. "PTV 11 Cebu back on air". Philippine Information Agency. September 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.


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