ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center | |
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![]() ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in May 2023 | |
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General information | |
Status | Complete - Operational (online and cable broadcasting activities i.e. Kapamilya Channel, ANC, Kapamilya Online Live, TFC, TeleRadyo Serbisyo as well as news and current affairs offices of ABS-CBN News, entertainment, television, and film production of ABS-CBN Entertainment and Star Cinema and its subsidiaries) |
Type | Studio, office, broadcasting |
Architectural style | Neo-modern |
Location | Sgt. Esguerra Avenue corner Mother Ignacia Street, Brgy. South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City |
Country | Philippines |
Coordinates | 14°38′26″N 121°2′12″E / 14.64056°N 121.03667°E |
Construction started | February 24, 1967 |
Opening |
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Renovated | 1992 1999 2010 |
Owner |
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Height | |
Antenna spire | 220 meters (Millennium Transmitter) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 3 |
Grounds | Approximately 44,000 m² |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Carlos Arguelles[1] |
Other designers | Wili Fernandez (interior design) |
The ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center (also called ABS-CBN Broadcast Center; formerly known as Broadcast Plaza from 1974 to 1986 and current edifice formerly spelled officially as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Centre) in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines is the headquarters of the Philippine media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation and the former television network of the same name. It houses the media conglomerate's and former network's divisions such as ABS-CBN News, ABS-CBN Studios and subsidiaries, broadcast facilities, offices, and ELJ Communications Center. It is also where the transmitter site of ALLTV is situated which was previously used by ABS-CBN before it became inactive due to the 2020 broadcast franchise renewal dispute with ownership of the transmitter and the land where it stands remain with the network.[2] It occupies an area of 44,000 square meters including the ELJ Communications Center.[3] It was originally built in 1968 and was then the most advanced broadcast facility in Asia. Today, it is now the country's largest and most technologically advanced media facility.[4] Meanwhile, ABS-CBN's production facility is located at ABS-CBN Horizon IT Park in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan.[5]
Built as the headquarters of ABS-CBN, the center has since seen several management changes, such as a takeover by RPN and sister station BBC in 1973, the addition of a third tenant, the government station GTV (now PTV) in 1974, and then the departure of RPN and BBC in 1978 to Broadcast City (along with then-sister station IBC from San Juan del Monte) and the entry of NMPC and BB in 1980 which accompanied the remaining tenant MBS. From 1986 to 1992, the reopened ABS-CBN and PTV, along with PBS, shared the Broadcast Center and following PTV's departure in 1992, ABS-CBN has since regained full control of the facility.
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