Solar TV

Solar TV

Type	Broadcast commercial television network
Country	Philippines
Availability	Defunct
Owner	Solar Entertainment (Solar TV Network Inc.)
Key people	Wilson Tieng (President, Solar Entertainment) William Tieng (Chairman, Solar Entertainment) Willy Y. Tieng (Vice-chairman, Solar Entertainment) Tonypet Albano (President and CEO, Radio Philippines Network)
Launch date	November 29, 2009 (2009-11-29)
Dissolved	March 1, 2011 (2011-03-01)
Picture format	NTSC 480i (SDTV)
Affiliation(s)	Radio Philippines Network
Official website	Solar TV website
Language	English (main) Filipino (secondary)
Replaced by	Talk TV (later became Solar News Channel, CNN Philippines, now RPTV) ETC (channel space/later became SolarFlix)

Solar TV (stylized as SOLARtv) was the flagship television network of Solar Entertainment Corporation's television arm subsidiary Solar TV Network, Inc., which is the replacement of C/S 9. This was the revival of the former Solar channel Solar USA.

History

The channel launched on November 29, 2009, at 11:00am with a slogan It's A Bright New World on RPN.

On October 31, 2010, it changed some of its programming content to English/Tagalog with a new slogan Kung Saan Lahat Panalo!.

It ended its broadcast on February 25, 2011, as Solar Entertainment buys RPN and programming of ETC was transferred to RPN but will remain as a corporate brand of television arm subsidiary of Solar (now a subsidiary of ALC Group of Companies since August 23, 2014).

Programs

• America's Best Dance Crew
• America's Got Talent
• Ben 10 Alien Force (also aired on GTV)
• Burn Notice
• Entertainment Tonight
• Eureka
• Fringe
• Hatol ng Bayan Auto Vote 2010
• Heroes
• Home Shopping Network
• Human Target
• Jai Alai Cagayan
• Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
• Kamen Rider Dragon Knight (also aired on Cartoon Network Philippines)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Lie to Me
• The Main Event
• Minute to Win It
• NBA
• NBC Nightly News
• NCIS
• One Morning Cafe
• Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
• PBA on Solar TV
• Real NBA
• Saved by the Bell
• Solar's Big Ticket
• RPN NewsWatch
• RPN NewsCap
• RPN NewsWatch Update
• Survivor
  • Survivor: Nicaragua
• The Biggest Loser
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• The Insider
• The Jerry Springer Show
• The Price Is Right
• The Real Housewives of New Jersey
• The Vampire Diaries
• Versus
• World Class Boxing
• World's Most Amazing Videos
• WWE Raw (one-hour edition)
• WWE Smackdown (one-hour edition)

External links

• Official website