GMA NETWORK AND PLDT TO CHALLENGE ABS-CBN-GLOBE PARTNERSHIP!

KAPAMILYA GOLD EXTENDS LEAD OVER RIVALS FROM GMA NETWORK!

KANTAR NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD RATINGS

24 October 2013 (Thursday) 

Morning:

Kape't Pandasal (ABS-CBN) 0.6%; TNT Tapatan Ni Tunying Replay (ABS-CBN) 0.9%; Born To Be Wild Replay (GMA-7) 1.5%

Umagang Kay Ganda (ABS-CBN) 4.2%; Unang Hirit (GMA-7) 4.1%  

Kris TV (ABS-CBN) 4.9%; Dragon Ball (GMA-7) 6.6%; Mojacko! (GMA-7) 7.6%  

ABS-CBN'S PREFERRED DTV STANDARD APPROVED BY NTC!

MANILA, Philippines - The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is set to issue a circular, which will formalize the country's shift to Japanese digital TV standard, next month.

NEW GMA PRIME TIME SHOWS SCORES LACKLUSTER RATINGS IN MEGA MANILA!

Here are the Top 10 daytime and primetime programs from October 14 to 15, 2013 among Mega Manila households (Household Ratings):

ABS-CBN TO TEAM UP WITH KOREA'S BIGGEST MEDIA GROUP FOR A NEW CHANNEL!

MANILA, Philippines - ABS-CBN Corp., the country's leading information and entertainment multimedia conglomerate, is teaming up with South Korean conglomerate CJ Group for a new TV home shopping venture.

In a disclosure to the stock exchange, ABS-CBN said it is investing at least P200 million in a joint venture with CJ O Shopping, one of the world's largest home shopping companies.

"The joint venture, A CJ O Shopping Corp., combines the strength of the two industry giants to empower Filipinos with information about reliable and world-class products that they can obtain through time-saving purchasing process," ABS-CBN said.

ABS-CBN CORP EXPECTS TO HIT PROFIT TARGET FOR 2013!

MANILA - ABS-CBN Corporation expects growth to be "very positive" next year despite the absence of political advertisements, an executive said today.

"Obviously, there won't be any political advertising, but with the gross domestic product (GDP) growing at that rate hopefully consumer spending will be fueled by private spending and public spending, which actually will push consumer spending and this will help these consumer products -- Unilever, Procter&Gamble -- to hit their revenue targets," Aldrin Cerrado, ABS-CBN chief financial officer told reporters on the sidelines of a forum organized by Finance Asia.

CIGNAL SUBSCRIBER GROWS TO 500,000, IS SKY CABLE TO BE DISLODGED AS THE LEADING CABLE TV?

MANILA - Cignal TV this month marked a milestone, with its subscriber count reaching half-a-million, thanks to changes in its pricing scheme, a company executive said today.

Guido Zaballero, Cignal vice president for marketing, on Wednesday told reporters that the company's subscriber base grew from 440,000 at end-2012 to 500,000 by middle of this year.

TV5 DEFEATS GMA-7 IN VISAYAS AND MINDANAO!

MANILA - TV5 today said it overtook rival GMA Network Inc in primetime audience ratings in Visayas and Mindanao.

Citing Nielsen TV Audience Measurement data from May 19 to 25, TV5 media research chief Chiqui Trivino said the network outranked GMA in Visayas and Mindanao for primetime, particularly in Metro Iloilo, Metro Bacolod, Metro Cebu, Cagayan De Oro and Metro General Santos.

ABS-CBN REGAINS LEADERSHIP IN NUTAM WITH 37% AUDIENCE SHARE!

Data released by AGB Nielsen show that ABS-CBN regained NUTAM leadership from GMA Network with a 37% audience share! This was an increase of 1 percentage point from the 36% share recorded the previous month. The increase in NUTAM ratings for ABS-CBN was attributed to the strength of its daytime programs with Showtime beating Eat Bulaga in the noontime ratings. Minute to Win It and Kapamilya Gold also contributed an increase in overall ratings as said shows beats rival programs!

GMA's  audience share shrank 1 percentage point during the same period from 31% to 30% in May. 

TV5 recorded a 16 percent audience share in the May 19 to 25 period, a three point increase from 13 percent from the May 12 to 18 period.