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Malapit na ang Winter Olympics sa Italy, at may dalawang Pinoy alpine skiers tayong pambato! Pero ang tanong ng marami: Big deal nga ba talaga ito o extra lang tayo sa snow? ⛷️ 🎧 MUSIC…

With apologies to OutKast but one question: "Now, what's NOT cooler than being cool?"

Malapit na ang Winter Olympics sa Italy, at may dalawang Pinoy alpine skiers tayong pambato! Pero ang tanong ng marami: Big deal nga ba talaga ito o extra lang tayo sa snow? ⛷️ 🎧 MUSIC…

I’LL BE HONEST: I hit a wall in what the next topic will be. Staring at my content calendar in the shifting Philippine entertainment landscape, I felt intense déjà vu. We've entered a new month, but the programming lineup remains dated—still stuck in 2010. Tune into the major networks today, and you’ll likely see a familiar scene: a hopeful contestant under harsh lights, gripping a microphone withwhite-knuckled intensity, singing a power ballad for the thousandth time.

They can still remember as if it was yesterday. Even me.

IN OUR OPENING salvo over two weeks ago, one thing was clear: TV5 is finally standing on its own. Let’s skip the corporate talk and call it what it truly is. For years, the Red Network of Reliance felt less like a media powerhouse and more like a cozy boarding house for the homeless elite. It was the sanctuary where ABS-CBN crawled for refuge after its 2020 franchise renewal rejection, a hollowed-out space where blocktimers, sports, and news filled the gaps of an incomplete identity.

The last megaserye of GMA, currently running for 7 months, is suffering a letdown. Sorry for the out-of-context flow, pero I need to answer it fast.

What's next for GMA Network this 2026 -- after the election and anniversary hype (an underwhelming one)?

Squeaky clean, you say?

Back to reality na tayo! Patapos na ang bakasyon para sa ating mga government employees, students, at private sector workers whose VL were granted. Tomorrow, balik-trabaho at balik-eskwela na…

THE FINAL FIREWORKS have faded into a grey smudge in the morning sky as street cleaners fight a losing battle against heaps of confetti, and the midnight countdown’s roar is now just a ringing in o…

THE FINAL FIREWORKS have faded into a grey smudge in the morning sky as street cleaners fight a losing battle against heaps of confetti, and the midnight countdown’s roar is now just a ringing in our ears. Standing at the brink of 2026, honestly, it feels a bit dizzying. Usually, a New Year is just a fresh page in a dusty notebook.

WE'RE ON the flickering edge of 2025—the so-called perfect square year of our lifetime. Sounds poetic, but it doesn’t feel that way. If your brain feels fried, fragmented, or just plain tired, you’re not alone. Before 2026 demands its turn, it’s worth pausing. This isn’t a countdown or a “Best of” list wrapped in a bow. It’s a vibe check.

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A DOZEN YEARS. The phrase seems simple, but to a historian, just a footnote; to a young adult, the span from high school to a stable career. For me, the 4,380 days from 2013 to now feel like a lifetime—a complex, deeply personal journey. Each year part of a deliberate, sometimes chaotic, tapestry of words, stories, struggles, and unexpected joys.

For the 12th year, the Yuletide tradition of Timow’s Turf continues—predicting, analyzing, and sometimes critiquing how Filipinos experience television during the most festive time of the year. With the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) memo issued, this holiday season signals the end of nearly three-quarter century in analog broadcasting in Mega Manila—unless the DTTB (Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting) transition is unsurprisingly delayed…

Good day, respondents! As we approach the end of 2025, we’re once again gathering your valuable insights to help identify the 25 Filipino individuals and groups that truly shaped the news this year. I...

THIS MONDAY (December 1), Kapwa Ko, Mahal Ko (KKMK) — the longest-running public service television program in the country — marks its 50th anniversary. It is a milestone no other show of its kind has ever reached, a testament to five decades of compassion, community, and quiet heroism. But this golden celebration comes wrapped in grief. Just two weeks earlier, …

BEFORE THE PROPER, here's the context of this special blog post: Since the beginning of this year, the rumors about what’s happening to Play FM (DWRT-FM) 99.5 MHz have been spreading quite widely, especially after the passing of its station manager, CJ Rivera, last August 2024. I wasn’t able to tackle any of the developments -- especially for one obsessive listener from Bicolandia but he's not the chief requester of this blog post -- until the decision was finalized and confirmed.

TWO DECADES AGO, on November 11, 2005, a modest yet memorable channel quietly appeared on our screens. I was in Grade 6. It didn’t demand attention with teleseryes or gossip shows. Instead, it whispered, “Quality Television.” QTV-11, later simply as Q was a GMA Network sister channel that dared to be different in a world dominated by heavy drama, slapstick, and sensationalism.