DWGT-TV
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| Metro Manila | |
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| City | Quezon City |
| Branding | PTV-4 Manila |
| Slogan | Para sa Bayan (For the Nation) |
| Channels |
Analog: 4 (VHF) Digital: 42 (UHF) (ISDB-T) Virtual: 04.01 (LCN) |
| Subchannels | 04.01: PTV SD1 04.02: PTV SD2 04.03: PTV SD3 04.04: PTV (1seg) |
| Affiliations | People's Television Network |
| Owner | People's Television Network, Inc. |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Call letters' meaning |
DW Government Television |
| Former callsigns | DZXL-TV (1969-1972) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Digital: 48 (UHF) (2009–2015) |
| Transmitter power | 55 kW TPO (500 kW ERP) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 14°39′16″N 121°2′45″E / 14.65444°N 121.04583°E |
| Website | www.ptv.ph |
DWGT-TV, channel 4, is the flagship station of Philippine-government owned television network People's Television Network. Its head office, studios and transmitter are located at Broadcast Complex, Visayas Avenue, Brgy. Vasra, Diliman, Quezon City. It operates Mondays to Fridays from 6:00 am to 12:00 mn (4:00 am to 12:00 mn every 1st Friday of the month), Saturdays from 5:30 am to 12:30 am and Sundays from 5:00 am to 12:00 mn.
The frequency rights of Channel 4 were previously owned by one of the ABS-CBN stations in Metro Manila (DZXL-TV 9) when the station moved from channel 9 to channel 4 in 1969.
During the Martial Law era, the government seized the frequency of channel 4 of ABS-CBN, reopened it in April 1974 as Government Television (GTV). GTV was located at the former ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center complex on Bohol (now Sgt. Esguerra) Avenue, Quezon City, which was renamed Broadcast Plaza. By 1980, GTV became MBS (Maharlika Broadcasting System), a full-blown media machinery for former president Ferdinand E. Marcos, and one of four TV stations in operation back then, and it also began its broadcasting in full color. Surprising, though, as Marcos banned Voltes V, MBS carried Daimos.
On February 24, 1986, during a live news conference in Malacañang, rebel forces tried to capture MBS and eventually succeeded. At the heat of exchanges between Marcos and then Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver, MBS suddenly went off the air when its facilities were taken over by rebel forces and by that afternoon started broadcasting for the people with its massive marathon coverage. Once the government then attempted not to broadcast the situation made by the rebels, only to fail.
During the administration of President Corazon Aquino, it became known as People's Television Network (PTV). The years following its broadcast, PTV's facilities, then housed on a major part of ABS-CBN's present studio complex in Bohol (now Sgt. Esguerra) Avenue, Quezon City, became a subject of a legal battle between the Lopezes and the Government.
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