ABS-CBN Corporation
ABS-CBN Corporation (also known alternatively and secondarily since January 2008, and formerly primarily from February 1, 1967 to September 23, 1972 and September 14, 1986 to January 2008 as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation) is a Filipino media company based in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is the largest entertainment television and film production, program syndication provider, film distributor and media conglomerate in the Philippines. It is a subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation, which is owned by the López family.[5] ABS-CBN was formed by the merger of Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) and Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN).
This article is about the Philippine media and entertainment conglomerate. For the television channel, see ABS-CBN.ABS-CBN
- Bolinao Electronics Corporation (1946–1952, 1957–1967)
- Alto Sales Corporation (1952–1957)
- Chronicle Broadcasting Network, Inc. (1956–1957)
- ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation (1967–1972; 1986–2008)[a]
July 11, 1946
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Sgt. Esguerra Avenue corner Mother Ignacia Street, Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Worldwide
- Martin "Mark" L. López (Chairman)
- Carlo L. Katigbak (President and CEO)
- Cory Vidanes (COO for Broadcast)
- Charo Santos-Concio (CCO)
₱18.51 billion (2023)
₱−12.59 billion (2023)
₱−12.83 billion (2023)
₱53.10 billion (2023)
₱9.23 billion (2023)
- Lopez Holdings Corporation (56.28%)
- ABS-CBN Holdings Corporation (32.21%)
- Public Ownership (42.80%)
5,279 (2023)
- ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc.
- ABS-CBN Center for Communication Arts, Inc.
- ABS-CBN Star Music
- ABS-CBN Publishing
- ABS-CBN Digital Media
- ABS-CBN Studios
- ABS-CBN Events
- ABS-CBN Foundation
- ABS-CBN International
- ABS-CBN International Production and Co-Production
- ABS-CBN Radio
- ABS-CBN News
- ABS-CBN Narrowcast
- Dreamscape Entertainment
- Star Creatives Television
- MOR Entertainment
ABS was founded in 1946 by American electronics engineer James Lindenberg as Bolinao Electronics Corporation (BEC). In 1952, BEC was renamed Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) with its corporate name, Alto Sales Corporation after Judge Antonio Quirino, brother of President Elpidio Quirino, purchased the company and later launched the first TV station in the country, DZAQ-TV on October 23, 1953. The company that would later be merged with ABS to form ABS-CBN was founded in 1956 as Chronicle Broadcasting Network, Inc. (CBN) by Eugenio Lopez Sr. and his brother Fernando Lopez, who was the sitting Vice President of the Philippines. A year later, the Lopezes acquired ABS. The ABS-CBN brand was first used on television in 1961.
The conglomerate became known as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation on February 1, 1967. It then changed its primary name to ABS-CBN Corporation on January 2008 to coincide the 55th anniversary of the television network of the same name. It dropped the word "Broadcasting" on primary uses, to signify its diversification.[6] Due to the change in the conglomerate's primary name, the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation name is now used as the company's alternative and secondary name in certain contexts. The common shares of ABS-CBN were first traded on the Philippine Stock Exchange in July 1992 under the ticker symbol ABS.[7]
Due to being denied for another 25-year free-to-air broadcasting franchise by the Philippine Congress, the conglomerate now mainly focuses on working as a content company, which includes producing television programs, films and other entertainment contents and distributions.[8]