Category: By Popular Request (BPR)
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“News Desert”: The Inescapable Fate of Traditional Media
[Requested by Gian Paolo dela Cruz] THE RECENT HEAT, due to El Nino, has made us feel like we’re in a desert, but that’s not the only thing making waves. Our friend is confronting the reality of TV industry in the 2020s, and the Philippines is a key player in…
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The Unfortunate Fate of Tahanang Pinakamasaya
[Requested by Kyuzo Aoi] IT’S BEEN a week since GMA’s main channel (not the other one, GTV) hasn’t had a noontime show, Monday through Saturday. The conclusion of TAPE, Inc.’s Tahanang Pinakamasaya was a big bummer for the production company’s apologists. Others didn’t mind though, saying it wasn’t a big…
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“Salamat po ang pogi mo”: Effects of Illegal Streaming to Broadcasting
[Requested by X user ReubenPaul_11, with insights from Gian Paolo dela Cruz] WHEN THE REQUESTER mentioned “Salamat po, ang pogi mo!”, he meant not from a heartthrob actor in a primetime teleserye, but from a pirated stream blaring out on the comment section that could appear over the airwaves. This…
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Streaming Live Sports Behind the Paywall
[Requested by Miggy Tapuyao] PAYWALLS have become a common feature in online news platforms because they allow content creators to monetize their work. Paywalls were installed in the newspaper industry to help them stay afloat as print revenue declined and to reduce the number of annoying ads that appeared online…
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Artificial Intelligence and PH’s Traditional Mass Media
[Requested by Miggy Tapuyao] IN MY 2023 Opening Salvo post last January 3, I mentioned several issues confronting the country’s mass media industry: finding a company that aligns with the incoming graduate’s values, setting back over digital television transition indefinitely and demanding exciting content for streaming platforms. However, there is…
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Digital Radio in the Philippines
[Requested by Miguele Torres] MOST OF YOU are familiar — and now disillusioned — with the digital television (DTV)’s process but have you heard about digital radio (DR)? We are not aware of it one could be defined logically as with DTV but uses digital signals to transmit audio. As…
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GMA Telebabad’s 3rd Slot Experimentation and Perceived Failure of Teleserye Delay Management (A Response to MissPluto)
LAST AUGUST 6, MissPluto asked me from the Article Request Form: “What is wrong with GMA’s 3rd slot in primetime? Why can’t GMA consistently air a Filipino production on their 3rd slot?“ GMA Telebabad is what she’s referring to. Like Afternoon Prime, Telebabad usually has three slots. Unlike AP, which…
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[#PHTV68/#100YOBPH] What If: Marcos’ Martial Law Wasn’t That Much Draconian to the Philippine TV Landscape?
[Requested by MJH but modified] [AUTHOR’S NOTE: This post officially kicks off our year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of broadcasting in the Philippines (#100YOBPH). This is an alternate history post similar to the one I wrote last December; if you have any additional thoughts, please leave a comment here…
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The Day After D-Day (D+ Day + 1): What’s Next After the Disney-Fox Cab-Sat Pullout?
[Requested by Zyle Hernandez] AFTER ALMOST six months’ notice, 18 cable/satellite channels of Disney International Operation’s Asian division (including Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific) — at least 14 here in the Philippines — have ceased operations yesterday (October 1, 2021) across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. The reason for the…
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