Philippine Media landscape

Media overview
The Philippines’ media is rowdy, vibrant, diverse and hugely profitable.
There are nearly 1,000 radio stations across the country, broadcasting on FM and Medium
Wave, according to Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) – the Association of
Broadcasters of the Philippines.
There are 28 daily newspapers published in Manila. Dozens more daily and weekly
newspapers are published in provincial cities.
Most independent provincial broadcasters are affiliated to one of the big national radio and
TV networks and relay large chunks of their programming.
The state media is very weak, partly because it is banned from supplementing its budget
with advertising.
Radio is the most reliable channel for distributing news, information and entertainment in
the Philippines’ rural interior, where mountains often get in the way of TV signals.
Broadcasting is dominated by six powerful radio and TV networks which command
massive audiences nationwide.
-MANILA MBC/BROADCASTING COMPANY
The biggest radio group in the Philippines. It controls over 200 radio stations across the
country and a chain of TV stations.
-TV 5
Formerly known as the Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC), www.TV5.com.ph, owns
several TV stations in Metro Manila, including DWET-TV, DWNB-TV and DWDZ-TV. It
also owns the popular radio news station Radyo5 News FM.
-ABS-CBN
Philippines biggest media group. It Dominates local television. Its flagship ABS-CBN TV
network broadcasts from 25 content producing stations around the country and eight
affiliated TV stations nationwide.
-GMA Network
Popular and influential television channel GMA-7 in Metro Manila and its radio
counterpart DZBB. The group controls a network of 60 TV stations and 23 radio music and
entertain radio stations Across the Philippines through its Campus Radio network. GMA
Network is owned and managed By the Gozon, Duavit and Jimenez Families which
founded the Media group in the 1960s.
- Bombo Radyo
Operates 43 radio stations Nationwide through its Bombo Radyo talk radio network
and its Star FM chain of music stations. There are 22 Bombo Radyo Medium Wave
radio stations and 21 Star FM stations across the Philippines. Bombyo Radyo is
owned by the Florente Group of Companies.
-RMN – Radio Mindanao Network
Owns more than 60 radio stations in Manila and the southern island of Mindanao
under the RNM and IFM brands.
- Brigada Mass Media Corporation (Brigada News FM)
A Filipino media powerhouse delivering impactful news, inspiring entertainment,
and life-enhancing support through accessible, high-quality content across diverse
platforms. As of 2021, BMMC now has 50 owned and operated stations in the
country.