station of ZOE Broadcasting Network. DZOZ-DTV studios are located at the 22nd Floor, Strata 2000 Bldg., Emerald Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig. Its transmitter is located at ZOE Compound Center, Crestview Heights Subdivision, Barangay San Roque, Antipolo, Rizal. Regional television networks Defunct/Inactive television network(s) ABS-CBN: Prior to its shutdown, ABS-CBN was the first, oldest and largest television network in the country and it is owned and controlled by the Lopez Group of Companies. The network was launched on October 23, 1953, as Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) on DZAQ-TV Channel 3 by Antonio Quirino and James Lindenberg. ABS was soon acquired by the owner of Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN), Don Eugenio Lopez Sr. on February 24, 1957, with CBN launched its own TV station on DZXL-TV Channel 9 a year later. In 1961, ABS and CBN merged to form as ABS-CBN and became the Philippines' largest network. On May 5, 2020, the network was ordered to stop broadcasting by the National Telecommunications Commission after its franchise expired. On July 10, 2020, the Philippine Congress rejected its franchise renewal due to alleged violations in their franchise and other legal issues such as failure to regularize employees, using pay-per-view channel in free-to-air franchise, and alleged political meddling and bias during 2016 elections. Prior to this, President Rodrigo Duterte himself accused ABS-CBN for allegedly being biased against his administration and vowed to block the renewal of their franchise. But critics of his administration, human rights groups and several media unions said that the shutdown of ABS-CBN is an attack on press freedom and democracy in the country. The network operations was also stopped by then-President Ferdinand Marcos on September 23, 1972, when he declared martial law until its return on the airwaves on September 14, 1986 (a few months after the ousting of Marcos during the People Power Revolution). Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A) See also Digital television in the Philippines List of analog television stations in the Philippines List of digital television stations in the Philippines Subscription television in the Philippines Philippine television drama References Text in this article was copied from History of The Philippine Television at the Pinoy TV Radio wiki, which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license. Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from November 2015