DYPT-TV

DYPT-TV, channel 11, is a Regional television station of Philippine-government owned television network People's Television Network. Its transmitter is located at Mt. Busay Television Broadcast Site, Sitio Babag, Brgy. Busay, Cebu City.^[1] 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.

DYPT-TV (PTV-11 Cebu)

"Ang Pambansang TV sa Bagong Pilipinas"
Metro Cebu
City	Cebu City
Channels	Analog: 11 (VHF) Digital: 42 (UHF) (ISDB-Tb) (Test Broadcast) Virtual: 4.01
Branding	PTV-11 Cebu/PTV-11 Central Visayas
Programming
Affiliations	4.01: PTV 4.02: Congress TV 4.03: PTV Sports
Ownership
Owner	People's Television Network, Inc.
History
Founded	September 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 (1978-1986)
Former channel number(s)	3 (1978-1988)
Former affiliations	Associated Broadcasting Corporation (1963-1972) BBC (1978-1986)
Call sign meaning	DY People's Television
Technical information
Licensing authority	NTC
Power	Analog: 10 kW Digital: 1 kW
ERP	Analog: 30 kW
Transmitter coordinates	10°21′50.6″N 123°51′17.4″E
Links
Website	www.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 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

Digital channels

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	Congress TV
04.03			PTV SD3	PTV Sports
04.04	240p	4:3	PTV 1seg	PTV	1seg

Areas of coverage

Primary areas

• Cebu City
• Cebu

Secondary areas

• Portion of Bohol
• Portion of Leyte

See also

• People's Television Network
• List of People's Television Network stations and channels
• DWGT-TV - the network's flagship station in Manila.
• DYMR

External links

• Radio and TV broadcast stations of Region VII: Cebu province, National Telecommunications Commission (Philippines)

References

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.