 The closed network's intellectual unit was taken over by crony-owned Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation on December 1973, Benedicto changed their call sign to DYCW-TV.A year later, in 1978, Channel 3 Cebu became an owned-and-operated station of the state-run Government Television (later the Maharlika Broadcasting System, now People's Television Network) and at the same time, its call letters were reverted to the original DYCB-TV.Following that, the station started broadcast delivering programs from Metro Manila via DWGT-TV, as well as local programming on Channel 3; with the commercial BBC transferring to its newly-bought DYCW-TV Channel 11.