DXAI-TV
DXAI-TV was an owned-and-operated station of ABS-CBN Corporation. Its Central Mindanao news gathering base is located at Don E. Sero Street, Brgy. Rosary Heights V, Cotabato City, Maguindanao.
Cotabato City | |
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Channels | Analog: 5 (VHF) |
Branding | ABS-CBN TV-5 Cotabato |
Slogan | In The Service of The Filipino |
Programming | |
Affiliations | ABS-CBN |
Ownership | |
Owner | ABS-CBN Corporation |
DXPR-TV (S+A) DXPS | |
History | |
Founded | 1996 |
Last air date | May 5, 2020 (legislative franchise lapsed) |
Technical information | |
ERP | 10 kilowatt |
Links | |
Website | www.abs-cbn.com |
History
The station began operations in 1996. In June 1999, channel 5 Cotabato upgraded as an originating station when it began producing its local TV Patrol newscast for the city, which later expanded to the Central Mindanao market.
ABS-CBN Cotabato and its Central Mindanao relays became part of the wider South Central Mindanao super region since 2010, combining its resources with Soccsksargen originating station DXZT-TV General Santos. Their partnership resulted to its pan-regional breakfast show Magandang Umaga South Central Mindanao. For the next eight years, the station continued to run as a separate regional market for Central Mindanao with local newscasts and advertising.
However, on June 29, 2018, as part of cost-cutting measures to ABS-CBN Regional, to align its digitization of facilities with the network's flagship station in Manila, DXAI-TV was closed down as an originating station.[1] Afterwards, the Cotabato station and its Central Mindanao transmitters were downgraded to General Santos relays, merging its news departments into a single pan-regional TV Patrol newscast produced in the latter for the entire South Central Mindanao super region.
ABS-CBN TV-5 Cotabato programs
All of the following programs are relayed from ABS-CBN General Santos:
Previously-aired/previously-produced programs
- Dinhing Dapita Sadya
- KSP:Kapamilya Sabado Party
- Halo-Halo Sunday Specials
- Okiddo
- MAG TV Na, Southern Mindanao
- TV Patrol Central Mindanao
- Agri Tayo Dito