AH Challenge: Philippine Television

In OTL, Philippine television is dominated by commercial broadcasting, obviously inspired by their counterparts in the United States; in fact, the first television station in the nation is DZAQ-TV, the predecessor of the ABS-CBN network. Here is the challenge: What if the state-owned public broadcast service PBS (Philippine Broadcast Service) won the right to establish a television station and held a monopoly on television broadcasting over the years?

PS: The date of the first broadcast is still the same - 23 October,1953.
 
Actually, make it tomorrow - I've been sidetracked all day. But I will keep this in mind. I do know, however, a few things will be in place:

*Thanks to the US, it is definitely for certain that - as in OTL - the Philippines will share the same standard as the US. For simplicity's sake, this will be NTSC-M, though in TTL I may have the Philippines share one minor feature with Japan's NTSC-J, where black level is the same value as blanking level (0 IRE), where in NTSC-M the black level is slightly higher. IIRC, that means that it will be slightly brighter on Philippine TVs than North American TVs.

*The choice of model is very open at this point, because TV would be very new to the Philippines. For the most part, from my admittedly cursory observations, the Philippines basically has a model typical to the Western Hemisphere where there's a handful of (usually) private TV companies dominating the system. In the case of the Philippines, that would be ABS-CBN, GMA, and TV5; though there are also state-run networks, these generally follow a model like Televisión Nacional de Chile or Mexico's former state broadcaster Imevisión. So that's one way. However, it's not the only model - for example, another way would be to follow the model of the BBC or NHK. Whichever way I decide would have very different consequences for Philippine TV.

*Of course, it could theoretically assume that events stay as per OTL outside of TV. Which I kinda doubt, but for amusement we can assume that.

That should provide a tantalizing way to show what's to come. ;):p
 
Actually, make it tomorrow - I've been sidetracked all day. But I will keep this in mind. I do know, however, a few things will be in place:
*The choice of model is very open at this point, because TV would be very new to the Philippines. For the most part, from my admittedly cursory observations, the Philippines basically has a model typical to the Western Hemisphere where there's a handful of (usually) private TV companies dominating the system. In the case of the Philippines, that would be ABS-CBN, GMA, and TV5; though there are also state-run networks, these generally follow a model like Televisión Nacional de Chile or Mexico's former state broadcaster Imevisión. So that's one way. However, it's not the only model - for example, another way would be to follow the model of the BBC or NHK. Whichever way I decide would have very different consequences for Philippine TV.

*Of course, it could theoretically assume that events stay as per OTL outside of TV. Which I kinda doubt, but for amusement we can assume that.

- On the second option, is possible that this state-owned public broadcaster has a second and third channel?
- On the third option, That's possible, too.
 
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- On the second option, is possible that this state-owned public broadcaster has a second and third channel?
- On the third option, That's possible, too.

Possible, but it depends. In the case of TVN, it's stuck with one channel-cum-network since Chilean law forbids companies from owning more than one TV channel (at least for FTA - with cable channels, there seems to be no restriction, which is why in that case TVN operates a 24-hour news channel via cable). And even if Philippine law is favorable for operating more than one channel, one has to check to see if there's space - more so in a case like the Philippines, where thanks to the interesting properties of VHF (TV chs. A2-13 and FM radio) where water actually increases the coverage area, one would presumably have to ensure that the chosen frequencies don't interfere with each other.
 
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