DWAC-TV
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| Metro Manila | |
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| City | Quezon City |
| Branding | S+A Channel 23 |
| Slogan | Sumasaludo sa Pusong Palaban ng Lahing Pilipino |
| Channels |
Analog: 23 (UHF) Digital: 43 (UHF)(ISDB-T) Virtual: 11.17 (LCN) |
| Affiliations | S+A |
| Owner | ABS-CBN Corporation |
| Founded | May 1992 |
| Call letters' meaning |
DW Arcadio Carandang |
| Sister station(s) | DWWX-TV (ABS-CBN) |
| Former callsigns | DZEE-TV (1992-1996) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1992-1996) MTV Asia (1992-1994, 1996-2000) Channel V (1994-1996) Studio 23 (1996-2014) |
| Transmitter power | 50 kW (10,000 kW ERP) |
| Website | sports |
DWAC-TV, channel 23, is the flagship station of Philippine all-sports and action television network ABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A), a fully owned subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studios and transmitter are located at ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center Mother Ignacia cor. Sgt. Esguerra Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.
The station was acquired from Ermita Electronics Corporation in July 1996, which initially owned the frequency of the station that began airing in May 1992 from a densely populated commercial area in Quezon City with a rebroadcast of MTV Asia, then telecasting from the STAR TV platform. It was later showing Channel V refeeds from 1994 onwards as MTV made the decision to split from STAR and form its own satellite TV portal in Asia.
Just two years later in 1996, MTV Asia returned to the Philippine airwaves after establishing a new regional base in Singapore. ABS-CBN was picked as the broadcast arm of MTV Asia in the Philippines at the time, and Channel 23 started test broadcasts in September 1996 with rebroadcasts of the new MTV Asia from Singapore. A month later, it launched its own programming under the station name Studio 23 and adopted the slogan "Premium Television". The station initially ran MTV rebroadcasts in the day, and ran its own shows at primetime. It also ran for 24 hours, but financial limitations forced it to sign off at 3AM every day. That has been the broadcast arrangement ever since.
5 years later, MTV Asia acquired a new local UHF frequency, Channel 41 owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation (which is now AksyonTV, now co-owned by TV5) and Studio 23 formally became a full-fledged station, adopting rebroadcasts of its in-house cable channel Myx to fill in the void left by MTV Asia, and came up with intensified programming led by the popular reality TV game show "Survivor", and several top rate US shows like "7th Heaven", "Will and Grace" and "Charmed", among others.
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