GMA News TV
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GMA News TV is a news and lifestyle-oriented channel in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. It is owned and operated by GMA Network Inc.
GMA Network, Inc.
Global Media Arts Network Inc. is a multimedia entertainment conglomerate, incorporated on March 1, 1950 in the Philippines. Its main businesses are into television and radio distribution, program production, and other media related industry...

 through the supervision GMA News and Public Affairs
GMA News and Public Affairs
GMA News and Public Affairs is the news department of the Philippine broadcaster GMA Network and its sister network GMA News TV...

. Formal commercial broadcast started on February 28, 2011 on the frequency previously occupied by its sister station, now the defunct Q on local VHF 11
DZOE-TV
DZOE-TV, channel 11, is a television station in Quezon City, owned by ZOE Broadcasting Network. As part of an agreement with GMA Network, the station simulcasts GMA News TV, a national news channel...

 in Metropolitan Manila; and it is broadcast through its relay and affiliate television stations in the Philippines. GMA News TV is generally watched as a "free-to-air" news and lifestyle oriented channel in the Philippines. The channel is available in most satellite and cable TV systems throughout the Philippines.

GMA News Online (www.gmanews.tv), a separate entity, is the official website of GMA News TV and its parent organization, GMA News and Public Affairs
GMA News and Public Affairs
GMA News and Public Affairs is the news department of the Philippine broadcaster GMA Network and its sister network GMA News TV...

.

Early years

Originally, local VHF channel 11 in Metropolitan Manila was a joint venture of two religious groups in the Philippines; the Jesus Is Lord Church of Eddie Villanueva
Eddie Villanueva
Eduardo C. Villanueva , known as Bro. Eddie Villanueva, is a religious and political leader in the Philippines and a presidential candidate in the 2010 Philippine election as standard bearer of the Bangon Pilipinas Party...

 and El Shaddai
El Shaddai (movement)
El Shaddai is a Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement from the Philippines founded by Mariano Mike Velarde, known as Brother Mike.- History :...

 of Mike Velarde
Mike Velarde
Mariano "Mike" Zuniega Velarde or better known as Bro. Mike Velarde is the founder and Servant Leader of the Philippine based Catholic Charismatic religious group El Shaddai Movement which has a following of an estimated three to seven million Filipinos.He is the owner of Amvel Land Development...

. However, dispute over the ownership of the station arises and leads to a congressional franchise given to Eddie Villanueva. In early years, Zoe Broadcasting Network
ZOE Broadcasting Network
ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. is a Philippine television network of Jesus is Lord Movement leader Eddie Villanueva. ZOE is currently an affiliate of GMA Network. This stations studios and offices are located at 22/F Strata 2000 Bldg, F. Ortigas Jr. Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig City. With...

 produces programs mostly in religious content until in 1999, Zoe Broadcasting Network entered an agreement with Entertainment Network (Enternet) to rebroadcast parts of CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel . Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul....

 programming for its morning and afternoon block until the arrangement ended in 2000.

On November 11, 2005, GMA Network Inc.
GMA Network, Inc.
Global Media Arts Network Inc. is a multimedia entertainment conglomerate, incorporated on March 1, 1950 in the Philippines. Its main businesses are into television and radio distribution, program production, and other media related industry...

 entered a memorandum of agreement with the owners of Zoe Broadcasting Network and leased the airtime of its flagship station, DZOE
ZOE Broadcasting Network
ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. is a Philippine television network of Jesus is Lord Movement leader Eddie Villanueva. ZOE is currently an affiliate of GMA Network. This stations studios and offices are located at 22/F Strata 2000 Bldg, F. Ortigas Jr. Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig City. With...

 and launches Quality Television (QTV) on local VHF channel 11, in exchange of network's facilities upgrade and airing of its locally produced programs. On March 18, 2007, Quality Television was rebranded to Q focusing on lifestyle programming. On May 29, 2010, Q expanded its programming to cater male audiences. On February 7, 2011, GMA Network Inc. announced plans to launch an all news and lifestyle oriented channel in the Philippines and transformed its Q network into a news channel. On February 20, 2011, Q ceased commercial operation and started the test trial of GMA News TV. On February 28, 2011, GMA Network Inc. officially launched its news channel.

Programming

Initially, GMA News TV offers a mixture of programming lineup up to 20 hours of airing per day (broadcast will start at 5:00 AM, PST
Philippine Standard Time
Philippine Standard Time , also known as Philippine Time , is the official name for the time in the Philippines. The country only has one time zone, the UTC+08:00 time zone. The country used the daylight saving time for a short time...

, UTC+8
UTC+8
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), in addition to local programs and contents previously aired on Q, GMA News TV will continue to air programs produced by Zoe Broadcasting Network
ZOE Broadcasting Network
ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. is a Philippine television network of Jesus is Lord Movement leader Eddie Villanueva. ZOE is currently an affiliate of GMA Network. This stations studios and offices are located at 22/F Strata 2000 Bldg, F. Ortigas Jr. Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig City. With...

. Most programs will be transmitted from its news headquarters in Quezon City at the GMA Network Center
GMA Network Center
The GMA Network Center is the headquarters of the GMA Network, a major radio and television network in the Philippines. It is located at EDSA corner South Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. It is the network's main television and radio production center, and its main transmission facility for most of...

 located at the corner of Epifanio delos Santos and Timog avenues, while its recorded programs will be broadcast from its GMA Network Studios in GMA Network Drive and GMA Broadway Centrum in Aurora Boulevard, also in Quezon City. While programs produced by Zoe Broadcasting Network will be broadcast on its studios at the 22nd Floor, Strata 2000 Building, Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Part of its live broadcast will also be aired on local AM radio station DZBB, relay and affiliate radio stations in the Philippines.

International broadcast

GMA Network Inc. announced that it will launch GMA News TV International in third quarter of 2011 and will be also available through satellite and cable TV systems worldwide. It would be the third international channel of GMA Network Inc., together with GMA Pinoy TV and GMA Life TV. On July 14, 2011, GMA Network Inc. announced that GMA News TV International is current available on a preview channel basis in Australia via FetchTV, IPS/AccessTV in Japan, GUdTV in Guam and soon in Singapore and Middle East available through satellite Orbit Showtime
Orbit Showtime
Orbit Showtime Network, now officially branded as OSN, is a subscription television service in the Middle East and North Africa. The platform is owned by Panther Media Group, and the company is registered in DIFC. OSN is a joint venture between the Kuwait-based KIPCO and Saudi Arabia-based Mawarid...

.; and it is set to launch in the third quarter of 2011.

On October 1, 2011, GMA Network Inc. launched GMA News TV International in Australia through the pay TV operator, UBI World TV
UBI World TV
UBI World TV is an Australian digital satellite pay television service that broadcasts predominantly ethnic channels. It launched in late 2004 and currently offers over 80 channels in its lineup from over 20 countries in over 12 languages.The company also provides entertainment and information...

.

Online

Established in 2006, the GMA News Online (formerly GMANews.TV) is the official site of GMA News TV. It features the latest news coverage, including video reports, as well as business, sports, technology, entertainment and special reports, mobile alerts, newsletters, RSS feeds and real time search. A diverse presenters and correspondents maintain blogs on its site and has an archiving database for its news content. A live stream of DZBB, an AM radio station of GMA Network, Inc.
GMA Network, Inc.
Global Media Arts Network Inc. is a multimedia entertainment conglomerate, incorporated on March 1, 1950 in the Philippines. Its main businesses are into television and radio distribution, program production, and other media related industry...

 is also available on its website. It also features YouScoop, an interactive section, where in viewers can upload first-hand footage of news events happening in their area and visitors can also view such footage. Aside from GMA News and Public Affairs
GMA News and Public Affairs
GMA News and Public Affairs is the news department of the Philippine broadcaster GMA Network and its sister network GMA News TV...

 content and materials produced, GMA News Online publishes articles and features from several news organization, including The Associated Press and Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...

 wire service. In December 2010, GMANews.TV received a regular one million page views per day. On February 7, 2011, GMANews.TV was renamed to GMA News Online and launched a new logo and slogan, “The Go-to Site For Filipinos Everywhere”; and retain its uniform resource locator, www.gmanews.tv to correspond with the launching of its all-news channel, GMA News TV. The current editor in chief of GMA News Online is Howie Severino.

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