DYAB-TV


DYAB is a commercial television station of Philippine television network ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studio is located at ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, 5/F Uytingkoc Bldg., Avenida Veteranos, Tacloban City and the transmitter is located at Mt. Naga-Naga, Tacloban City. On November 8 to December 23, 2013, ABS-CBN Tacloban went off the air for the first time in six weeks because of the landfall of Typhoon Haiyan, which damaged ABS-CBN's equipment, its transmitter and the building. It only resumed operations on December 23, 2013, after power was restored in the city and ABS-CBN bought new equipment for DYAB-TV prior to Christmas.

History

In 1997, as part of the nationwide relaunch of ABS-CBN which began the year before with the flagship station in Manila, DYAB-TV, following a year of preparatory work, relaunched under its network's original owner and introduced a variant of the national Star Network ident with the famous numerical gold tri-ribbon Channel 2 logo with a star at the end, with the number 2 being made up of three white stripes.
ABS-CBN Tacloban started commercial television operations in 1997 as revival only, as DYAB-TV channel 2, the first provincial TV station in the Philippines. DYAB-TV was launched by Bolinao Electronics Corporation, later renamed Alto Broadcasting System to formerly established in Tacloban City and the Eastern Visayas region. It first aired a four-hours-a-day schedule, transmitter on a 10-killowatts radius within Tacloban City and nearby islands.
On April 13, 1998, TV Patrol Eastern Visayas, the channel's flagship newscast was launched as the first and the longest-running regional TV Patrol newscast in the Philippines. With, DYAB became the first regional station of the ABS-CBN network to introduce local newscasts.
On November 8, 2013, ABS-CBN Tacloban went off the air for the first time in six weeks because of the landfall of Typhoon Haiyan, which damaged ABS-CBN's equipment, its transmitter and the building.
On December 23, 2013, the program returns after power was restored in the city and ABS-CBN bought new equipment for DYAB-TV prior to Christmas.
On May 5, 2020, ABS-CBN Tacloban went off the air temporarily suspended for the second time as a result of the cease and desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission after the franchise expiration.

ABS-CBN TV-2 Tacloban Programs

Currently aired