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Date Posted: 02:35:06 07/22/03 Tue
Author: karlmae
Subject: GMA Kapuso Network ... Goes Worldwide this 2004! Awwwww!!!

Ito na ang tatapos sa The Filipino Channel ng ABS-CBN! Nyahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

The Filipino Channel ... Bilang na ang araw mo!


GMA Network to begin int'l TV service early next year
Posted: 8:12 PM (Manila Time) | Jul. 16, 2003
INQ7.net

GMA Network, Inc. has finally decided to go international, with a planned direct-to-home television subscription service to overseas Filipinos starting early next year.

"We are preparing for this (international service) but the details have not yet been ironed out," GMA Network corporate communications head Butch Raquel told INQ7.net.


Raquel said there was still no business entity that would handle the service but added GMA Network would establish it soon. In addition, GMA has still not decided on what region it would pilot its service and the international partnerships the network will enter into.

But Raquel assured the still unnamed GMA international channel would be available to overseas Filipinos by first quarter of 2004.

GMA Network's international group will provide GMA-7 shows "real time" to international subscribers on a 24/7 basis. Overseas Filipino audiences would view GMA-7's popular entertainment shows - such as GMA-7's variety shows, sitcoms, drama specials, and soap operas - and news and public affairs programs as they are viewed in the Philippines and would be replayed to cater region-specific timezones.

According to Sheila Pascual-Paras, GMA Network production unit manager for news, fresh segments in GMA's newscasts and new public affairs programs are being planned to cater to an international audience. "We are very much excited," Paras told INQ7.net. "We are looking forward to expanding our reach to serving more Filipinos around the world."

News anchor Mike Enriquez reveals the eventuality of international exposure as a "challenge" but rewarding in the network's expanded thrust of "Serbisyong Totoo." "This (international service) satisfies our overseas Filipinos hunger for news and entertainment from home," Enriquez said in an INQ7.net interview. "We are now able to serve Filipinos wherever they are in the world."

As a rival to ABS-CBN's The Filipino Channel, the unnamed GMA international channel would provide overseas Filipinos another choice in the delivery of television programs from the Philippines. "Filipinos overseas would not be tied to a single provider," Raquel said. "They now have an option."

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