ABS-CBN Sports

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ABS-CBN Sports
Company ABS-CBN
Country Philippines
Well-Known Programs UAAP
NCAA
PBL
Slogan
website ABS-CBN.com

ABS-CBN Sports is the sports division of the ABS-CBN television network , which airs some of the notable sports events in the Philippines.

ABS-CBN Sports began in 1998 as the main broadcaster for the network-backed basketball league Metropolitan Basketball Association which introduced the home-and-away play format in the Philippine basketball landscape. Simultaneous with that (shortly before the MBA collapsed), it acquired the broadcast rights to the UAAP and NCAA collegiate basketball leagues, which bolstered Studio 23's ratings and at the same time aligned further toward the said channel's programming thrust to the youth.

Recently, ABS-CBN Sports was given full control of the broadcast of the Philippine Basketball League games after the latter depended on its own production unit for the last several years. Under a joint co-production agreement with Solar Sports, it also broadcasted Parts II and III of the epic boxing trilogy between Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales.

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[edit] Program Line-up

  • UAAP Games
  • NCAA Games
  • PBL Games
  • Morales-Pacquiao Trilogy Parts II and III
  • Sports Unlimited
  • Sports Report (SR) (10-minute sports roundup aired on Studio 23; before the collegiate and PBL games)
  • Sports TV (sports talk show aired on Studio 23)
  • Hardball (daily sports news show aired on ANC)

[edit] Sports Broadcasters/Personalities

[edit] Current Personalities

  • Chinggay Andrada
  • Dyan Castillejo-Garcia
  • Boom Gonzales
  • Ryan Gregorio
  • Ronnie Magsanoc
  • TJ Manotoc
  • Mark Molina
  • Ira Panganiban
  • George Rocha
  • Jinno Rufino
  • Sev Sarmienta
  • Bill Velasco

[edit] Past Personalities

[edit] See Also

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