TV5 Media Center (Mandaluyong)

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The TV5 Media Center, also known as Launchpad Center, is modernized corporate and broadcast complex in Mandaluyong City, opened in 2013. It serves as the headquarters of TV5 and also houses its affiliates Cignal Digital TV, Philex Mining Corporation and Voyager Innovations, Inc., all under the helm of the MVP Group of Companies.

The construction of TV5 Media Center began in January 2011 in the site where the former PLDT warehouse was located, 10 months after TV5 was acquired by MediaQuest Holdings, a media conglomerate of PLDT from former PLDT Chairman Antonio "Tony Boy" Cojuangco, Jr. and Malaysia-based broadcaster Media Prima, in an effort to update its existing technologies for a seamless transition to digital broadcasting and to acquire clearer broadcast signal; as well as to consolidate business and studio production operations from its original Novaliches broadcast facility, in which was used from ABC/TV5's reopening in 1992, Delta Theater in Quezon City, Broadway Centrum in New Manila, Marajo Tower in Bonifacio Global City and the L. V. Locsin Building in Makati.

The construction of the new facility will include two phases. The first phase is the construction of the news department and the target completion was in the fourth quarter of 2011. The second phase involves the entertainment department which is targeted to completed on the following year. ₱6 billion of capital expenditures from the parent MediaQuest was used in the construction of the facilities. However, the restricted cash flow in the earlier years of construction caused the delay in the completion. The first phase is actually completed in December 2013, while the second phase is targeted to completed in November 2016. The main corporate and broadcast operations of TV5 Network, Inc. was moved to the facility between the said dates, although TV5's transmitter and occasional production of its programs remain in the original Novaliches studios. However, in 2017, the Phase 2 of TV5 Media Center was renamed as "Launchpad Center" that serves as the headquarters of Voyager Innovations, Inc., as TV5 has not used the Phase 2 of the Media Center due to cost-cutting measures and slimming down of its operations.

The TV5 Media Center is composed of a one 9-story corporate building and two 8-story buildings which houses six ultramodern TV studios used by the programs of TV5, One PH, One News and D5 Studio, AM and FM radio booths for Radyo5 DZER 1278 kHz AM and Radyo5 92.3 News FM, post-production facilities, newsroom of News5 and ESPN 5's newscast SportsCenter Philippines, voice-over room and office spaces. The entertainment TV studios used by the programs of TV5's talk shows, every Sunday variety noontime, comedy, game show and reality shows.