ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center (Quezon City)

Philippines / Southern Tagalog / Malanday / Quezon City / Mother Ignacia Avenue
 broadcasting (do not use this category, need to be deleted or replaced), radio station, television studio, cable TV provider
ABS-CBN Corporation, commonly known as ABS-CBN, is a Filipino media and entertainment group based in Quezon City, Philippines. It is the Philippines' largest entertainment and media conglomerate in terms of revenue, operating income, net income, assets, equity, market capitalization, and number of employees. ABS-CBN was formed by the merger of Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) and Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN).

ABS was founded in 1946 by American electronics engineer James Lindenberg as Bolinao Electronics Corporation (BEC). In 1952, BEC was renamed Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) after Judge Antonio Quirino, brother of President Elpidio Quirino, purchased the company. The company that would later be merged with ABS to form ABS-CBN was founded in 1956 as Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN) by newspaper mogul Eugenio Lopez Sr. and his brother Fernando Lopez, who was then the Vice President of the Philippines. The two companies were merged and incorporated as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation on 1 February 1967, and renamed ABS-CBN Corporation in 2010 to reflect the company's diversification. The common shares of ABS-CBN were first traded on the Philippine Stock Exchange in July 1992 under the ticker symbol ABS.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS-CBN_(TV_network)
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Coordinates:   14°38'22"N   121°2'9"E

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  • ABS-CBN's "Tayong Dalawa" (The Two of Us) will come to an end on Friday, September 25th 2009.
  • it's showwwwttttttttttiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
  • The Alto Broadcasting System-Chronicle Broadcasting Network or ABS-CBN was forced to have its transmissions off the air by the National Telecommunications Commission on May 5, 2020, a day after its license was expired. The main reasons are they forgot to renew its franchise license in 2014, did not advertise the Rodrigo Duterte's Presidential Campaign Advertisement, anti-Duterte propaganda and others. More than 11,000 workers are losing their jobs in the Himpilang Kapamilya (Family Station). This is not new: in 1972, during the Martial Law years, the late President Ferdinand Marcos forcibly closed it and was renamed the BBC2/CityTV2 (or the Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation TV Network, not to be confused with the BBC2 TV in the United Kingdom). This was lasted until 1986 when another late President Corazon "Cory" Aquino reinstated the ABS-CBN name. Her daughter Kris was the hostess of some of her programs, like "The Kris Aquino Show".
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