KAPUSO GMA 7

GMA Network, Inc. is the leading free-to-air media broadcasting company in the Philippines. It is principally engaged in television and radio broadcasting, the production of television programs for domestic and international audiences and other related businesses. The company (then known as Loreto F. de Hemedes, Inc.) started operating its radio station DZBB in 1950 through Robert Stewart, an American correspondent, known to many as “Uncle Bob.” Eleven years later, on October 29, 1961, the company ventured into television and started operating TV Channel 7. In 1970, the company changed its name to Republic Broadcasting System, Inc. In 1975, Gilberto M. Duavit, Menardo R. Jimenez and Felipe L. Gozon took over the management of the station.

In 1996, the company changed its corporate name to GMA Network, Inc. as it diversified into media-related businesses such as movie making, sets and props construction, film syndication, music and video recording, new media, post production services and marketing.

From the “Where You Belong” tagline, the company came up with a corporate equity in 2002 to bring the network closer to the hearts and minds of its viewers using a new tagline Kapuso ng Bawat Pilipino. The equity defines GMA’s relationship with its viewers as Kapuso that fully understands their needs, dreams, aspirations, and even pains.

GMA Network’s very high frequency (VHF) television network consists of its flagship station in Mega Manila, originating stations in Cebu, Iloilo, Davao and soon in Dagupan and Naga, 42 relay stations, 2 UHF stations and 1 affiliate station nationwide.

GMA-7 cruises the airwaves through dzBB-AM and dwLS-FM in Manila and in 22 other radio stations throughout the country. In 2007, the company has reformatted its flagship station DWLS-FM as “Barangay LS-Forever!”

While expanding the network’s viewer-base locally, GMA-7 reaches out to Filipinos across the globe through its international channel, GMA Pinoy TV. GMA-7 programs can now be seen in the United States (including Hawaii), Japan, Guam, Saipan, Papua New Guinea, Diego Garcia, the Middle East and North Africa and soon in Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia also.

Through a co-production and/or blocktime agreement with ZOE Broadcasting Network, GMA provides the programming for Channel 11, now known as “QTV” (Quality TV). QTV-11 is women-skewed, with a programming grid primarily designed according to women’s schedules and needs.

GMA-7 has played a major role in revolutionizing Philippine television by providing many of the most innovative and trendsetting shows in the country. Its programs boast of the best artists in Philippine entertainment as well as the most respected personalities in the field of news and public affairs

GMA-7 has gained local and international recognition for its innovative and quality entertainment and responsible news and public affairs programs. For its quality and balanced programming, GMA has received the Best Station awards given by the country’s leading award-giving bodies such as the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas (KBP) Golden Dove Awards, Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) Star Awards, Catholic Mass Media Awards, the Rotary Club of Manila and the USTV Students Choice Awards. It is the first and only network in the country that has won the prestigious George Peabody Award in 2000. Its news program Saksi was awarded the World Gold Medal as Best Newscast in the New York Festivals in 2002, a first for any Philippine news program. It was also the first Philippine broadcasting company to have won the coveted Asian TV Award for Terrestial Channel of the Year in 2005. The company is among the top 10 Philippine companies among Asia’s leading companies in the Review 200 survey of the Asian Wall Street Journal (formerly Review 200 of the Far Eastern Economic Review) for three consecutive years (2002-2004).

Aside from bringing the best in news and entertainment, GMA-7 also manifests its social responsibility and commitment to public service through community projects and philanthropic activities that the GMA Kapuso Foundation and Kapwa Ko, Mahal Ko Foundation undertake.

GMA maintains the following websites: www.gmanetwork.com, www.iGMA.tv, www.gmapinoytv.com, www.kapusofoundation.com, and www.gmanews.tv.

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