GMA 7, one of the Philppines’ larger television networks, is set to launch QTV (QualityTV) on November 11, 2005.  Channel 11 is operated by ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. (chaired by Bro. Eddie Villanueva), which is to lease its full airtime to GMA.


From Wikipedia:


In the early part of 2005, Citynet, a subsidiary of GMA Network

and ZOE-TV entered an agreement for Citynet leasing the entire TV

airtime block of Channel 11 in exchange of a upgrading the facilities

of ZOE and a ZOE-TV program on GMA-7 every Monday midnight after its

Sunday primetime TV block.


Come November 11, 2005, QTV Channel 11 will join the league of

free-TV channels as it goes full blast. QTV-11, GMA Network’s VHF

station, will air a colorful lineup geared mostly towards women and

women’s concerns.



Ka Edong writes a short review on Pinoy.tech.blog:


In all, I think QTV will have programs that are more thematically and

audience-focused. They’re finding another venue (another channel

altogether!) where they do not need to go by the proven formula for

success: international soap-operas (espanyol nobela, chinobela,

koreanobela, indinobela, crapnobela) or local fantasy-soaps.



Wow, Wikipedians are sure fast to put up news, even on the local front (here from the Philippines).  I hope QTV would be the answer to the otherwise degrading moral standards of local free TV.  With scandals left and right (especially on the showbiz front, and sometimes even in the news!), the Filipino audience deserves a fresh approach to free TV programming.


Kudos to GMA for this cool concept.


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