Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas


The Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas is a broadcast media organization in the Philippines which provides its members broadcasting standards. The KBP was organized on April 27, 1973 in order to promote professional and ethical standards in Philippine broadcasting both in radio and television.
The KBP provides broadcast media regulations and guidelines for news, public affairs and commentaries, political broadcasts, children’s shows, religious programming, and including advertising to its members. The members of the KBP are composed of the owners and operators of radio and television stations including the radio and television stations themselves.

Broadcast code of the Philippines

The broadcast code of the Philippines is a set of standards for performance and ethics which are followed by radio and television stations who are members of the KBP. The code is composed of 3 parts, part 1 includes the 33 articles of which the standards for programming are illustrated. Part 2 pertains to the implementing rules and regulations of the KBP while part 3 illustrates the penalties if a violation has been committed.
The 33 articles of part 1 cover all broadcast mediums that are members of KBP. They mainly tackle how programs such as news and publics affairs programs remain just, fair and unbiased of point of views or opinions. The code also states that news sources must be clearly identified, except when the sources meet a confidentiality condition. The code also states how corrections should be done when a broadcast entity has come out with un-factual information. The code also gives standards to all types of programming and how it should be monitored when showing contents whose materials have with sexual content and violence. The KBP advocates the 18-minute advertising per hour rule for Philippine TV stations, the 18-minute rule was strictly implemented to prevent ads cluttering the TV programs.

The KBP Golden Dove Awards

Since 1990 the KBP has held the Golden Dove Awards, it is an annual awards recognition event which pays tribute to broadcast practitioners for their contributions and achievements in the broadcast industry. The judges for each of the categories are from selected media practitioners, advertisers and the academic community. As of the 17th Golden Dove Awards they have been giving away awards for the following categories:
As of December 2008, the Philippines has a total of 297 television broadcast stations from 173 in 1998. Currently there are also 659 FM stations and 383 AM stations this comprises regional subsidiaries and smaller entities in provinces which was based from the total National Telecommunications Commission licenses distributed. Cable television remains to be outside of the KBP’s broadcast code but the programs are still reviewed by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board of the Philippines.

Broadcast stations by region

Region AM Stations FM Stations TV Stations TOTAL
National Capital Region 31 25 30 78
Cordillera Administrative Region 11 20 10 41
Region 1 – Ilocos Region 33 38 13 84
Region II – Cagayan Valley 19 38 16 73
Region III – Central Luzon* 18 25 13 55
Region IV – Southern Tagalog 31 76 30 137
Region V - Bicol 36 68 30 134
Region VI – Western Visayas 35 71 29 135
Region VII – Central Visayas 27 47 21 95
Region VIII – Eastern Visayas 22 30 11 63
Region IX – Western Mindanao 23 44 21 88
Region X – Northern Mindanao 22 37 21 80
Region XI – Southern Mindanao 34 77 31 142
Region XII – Central Mindanao 14 23 9 46
CARAGA 9 7 5 21
ARMM 18 34 15 67