Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation

Infobox Network
network_name = Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation
network_
country = flagicon|Philippines Philippines
network_type = Broadcast television network
available = Defunct
owner = Salvador Tan, Roberto Benedicto
key_people = Ferdinand Marcos
launch_date = November 1973
closure_date = February 24, 1986

Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation was a Philippine television network that started its operations in November 1973. Upon its opening, the network operated the Channel 2 Metro Manila frequency owned by ABS-CBN, which was then shut down after the declaration of Martial Law, and changed the station's call sign from DZAQ-TV to DWWX-TV (which is still in use today even after the station was returned to ABS-CBN).

The network originally operated out of the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center on Sgt. Esguerra (formerly Bohol) Avenue in Quezon City, which was taken over in June 1973 by Roberto Benedicto, a crony of former President Ferdinand Marcos. Benedicto also owned Radio Philippines Network (alternately known at that time as Kanlaon Broadcasting System), whose studios at Roxas Boulevard in Pasay (which were, incidentally, sold to them by ABS-CBN in 1969) were destroyed by fire prior to taking over the ABS-CBN headquarters. In 1976, BBC, RPN and another Benedicto-owned network, Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, transferred to the Broadcast City compound in Old Balara, Quezon City, leaving Channel 4 (also formerly owned by ABS-CBN, but was taken over and reopened by the government as GTV in 1974) at the ABS-CBN compound, then renamed Broadcast Plaza.

BBC-2 was rebranded as City 2 Television from 1980 to 1984, and rebranded again as BBC-2 with a different logo during its last years of broadcast before the People Power EDSA Revolution. After Corazon Aquino became Philippine president in 1986, BBC was shut down. Channel 2, which was vacant from February 25, was given back to the ABS-CBN network.

The network was well-remembered for its trademark jingle, "Big, Beautiful Country", composed by Jose Mari Chan.

Programming (Local)

*Ang Iglesia ni Cristo
*2 Plus 2
*BBC Balita (retitled "City 2 Balita" after the "City 2" rebranding)
*The Big, Big Show
*Lovingly Yours, Helen
*Dos Por Dos
*PST
*Okay, Sha!
*VIP (Vilma in Person)
*Dulambuhay ni Rosa Vilma
*Eliza
*Nagmamahal, Amalia
*TV Pow!]
*Kiddie Pow!
*Nanette Por Kilo
*Ariel con Tina
*Odyssey 2
*Big Ike's Happening...Now!
*Ladies and Gentlemen...
*Buhok-Pinoy
*JQ on Cue
*Blu
*Celeste
*Rico Baby
*Broadcast Campus
*Gulong ng Palad
*Ilaw ng Tahanan
*Tang-tarang-tang
*The Pilita and Jackie Show
*PBA on BBC

Radio Stations

*DWWA 1206 - Metro Manila (call letters changed to DWAN and later owned by IBC; now under the MMDA)
*DWWK-FM/DWOK-FM 101.9 - Metro Manila (frequency given to ABS-CBN in 1986)

ee also

*ABS-CBN
*DWWX-TV
*The Filipino Channel
*DWRR 101.9
*Ferdinand Marcos