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General Station Television is a Philippine free-to-air commercial television network founded on July 4, 1975 based in Makati City. The network is owned by GS Media Network, which in-turn is owned by ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA. It is one of the three major television networks along with GMA Network and TV5, after ABS-CBN shut down its broadcasting operations due to NTC issuing a cease and desist order, and franchise renewal issues.
It is best known as the Filipino distributor/broadcaster of the Technic Heroes film series, Bionicle series, The Drillmation Series, Jamie's Got Tentacles!, Magic Vari, Countryballs: The Animated Series, Magically Girlz, The Simpsons, and Neighbours.
It has sister channels, G2, MTV Free, GSTV News, GS Action, GS Anime, GS Cinema, GS Comedy, GS Drama, Kidszone (TV channel), GS Preschool, GS Lifestyle, GS Reality, GS Sports, and GS World, and MusiKo!, all only available in digital terrestrial and satellite television.
History[]
The network was founded on July 4, 1975 by Alfonso Rubio Jr., who previously had a blocktime agreement for shows on DZTV-TV of the Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation. It's allowed to operate by the Philippine government during the Martial Law years. The first TV station was DWGS-TV channel 5 (now channel 10) in Metro Manila. It was followed by other Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao stations from 1976 to 1983 starting with Cebu and Davao. The first program was Hello GSTV hosted by Miss Lio.
The network gained popularity when Filipino viewers first saw the Drillmation Series anime and other entertainment programs including a Vlokozuian program in 1978.
in 1985, GSTV began to air popular Tagalog dub of Spiderman (1978), it was popular in 80s due to high quality dubbing.
During the EDSA revolution, GSTV opened more TV stations, with DWGS-TV frequencies moved to channel 11 on October 14, 1986 and became fully privatized. Previously, the only GSTV station in the region was a low-powered station in Sulu. In 1993, the Manila channel moved to VHF 10.
During the 1980's, it broadcast a popular Tagalog dub of Urusei Yatsura, entitled Lamu ang alien lady. The dub premiered during the 1983 Holy Week and gained GSTV a viewership of teens who romanticized Lum and children who wished to be Ataru.
GSTV is the official broadcaster of EKBA and EKFL.
In 1991, GSTV debuted a Tagalog-dubbed version of The Simpsons which airs to this day on the channel.
on November 12, 2005, GSTV began to air Tagalog dub of Astro Boy (2003), it was criticised for dark themes, later in 2006, GSTV removed Astro Boy (2003) and move to EBS.
On December 4, 2008, GSTV began test trials for HD digital television using DVB-T starting with Metro Manila, and later Cebu, but it moved to ISDB-T since 2010.
On April 1, 2012, GSTV officially became the first Philippine television network to broadcast in full HD (1080p), available on ISDB-T digital terrestrial television, SkyCable, Global Destiny Cable, OctaDish, Freeview Southeast Asia, Cignal Digital TV PH, G Sat, and other providers. Its also available in the El Kadsreian Islands via Freeview, ElStar, and Cignal Digital UEKN and Eruowood on Eruowoodian Satellink.
On October 29, 2020, after ViacomCBS acquired GS Media Network, along with its parent, ViacomCBS announced GSTV to have it's biggest rebrand to date on 2021, later on November, ViacomCBS to force GSTV to change format, stop airing and taping its current Filipino dramas (including the much-acclaimed Love in the Lockdown, which was moved to sister channel G2) as GSTV is having an ongoing transition, ViacomCBS announced that a full rebrand will take place on January 9, 2021. ViacomCBS attempted to cut the rights agreements to several non-ViacomCBS shows airing on GSTV, however much of these failed due to existing contractual obligations ViacomCBS were unable to wind down (for example; GSTV's Filipino rights to The Simpsons were renewed in 2018 and do not expire until 2025 at the latest and GSTV's Filipino rights to Spiderman (1978) do not expire until 2035). ViacomCBS, on another note, were able to automatically extend GSTV's Filipino rights to the CBS-distributed American game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune through their purchase of GS Media Network and it's parent. GSTV also debuted it's 2021 promo campaign Get Ready '21, based off the 1989 CBS Get Ready campaign which was used the same year by GSTV.
In November 2020, GSTV received permission from National Telecommunications Commission to go from 8 digital subchannels to 24 digital subchannels on their stations. Subchannels .9-.18 and .20-.24 will be for the purposes of the encrypted main channels of the GSTV Box service, while subchannel .19 will be a special free-to-view The CW Plus service branded as The CW on GSTV, time-shifted to Philippine Standard Time and with all-Filipino advertising. As a result, GSTV's stations combined now have the most digital subchannels for a TV station, beating out American station WANN-CD.
On January 26, 2021, GSTV announced their programming deal with Disney would be extended for another twelve years, ensuring GSTV's status as the exclusive over-the-air carrier of Disney and Fox programming in the Philippines.
Programs[]
See List of programs broadcast by GSTV.
List of television stations[]
- DWGS-TV (TV 10/DTV 24 Manila)
- DYSX-TV (TV 5/DTV 32 Cebu)
- DXFT-TV (TV 8/DTV 30 Davao)
- DXNW-TV (TV 8/DTV 14 New Washington/Kalibo)
Broadcast hours history[]
- 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm (1975-1980)
- 12:00 am to 11:00 pm (1980-1983)
- 10:00 am to 11:00 pm (1983-1986)
- 10:00 am to 12:00 am (1986-1989)
- 8:00 am to 12:00 am (1989-1993)
- 7:00 am to 12:00 am (1993-1996)
- 6:00 am to 12:30 am (1996-2005)
- 5:30 am to 1:00 am (2005-2010)
- 5:00 am to 1:00 am (2010-2016)
- 24 hours (2016-present)