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{{Infobox broadcasting network|
network_name = Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation<br />(City 2 Television) |
network_logo = BBC2Phils.svg |
country      = {{flagicon|Philippines}} [[Philippines]] |
network_type = [[Terrestrial television|Broadcast]] [[radio network|radio]] and [[television network]] |
available    = Defunct |
owner        = Salvador Tan <br> [[Roberto Benedicto]] |
key_people   = [[Roberto Benedicto]] |
launch_date  = {{Start date and age|1973|11|4}} |
dissolved    = {{End date and age|1986|3|20}} |
replaced = [[ABS-CBN (TV network)|ABS-CBN]]|
replaced_by = ABS-CBN
}}

The '''Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation''' (often shortened to '''BBC''') was a [[Philippines|Philippine]] television network that began operations on November 4, 1973 and ceased transmission on March 20, 1986.

==History==
[[DWWX-TV]] (formerly DZAQ-TV) station owned by [[ABS-CBN]] was shut down following the [[Proclamation № 1081|declaration of Martial Law]] in 1972, and served as the flagship station of BBC. [[Roberto Benedicto]], a [[crony]] of then-[[President of the Philippines|President]] [[Ferdinand Marcos]] and owner of the [[Radio Philippines Network|Kanlaon Broadcasting System]], took over the [[ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center]] complex on Bohol (now Sergeant Esguerra) Avenue in Quezon City after the KBS Studios along [[Roxas Boulevard]] in [[Pasay City]] (which were ironically sold to them by ABS-CBN in 1969) were destroyed by fire on June 6, 1973, a few months before BBC went on air.<ref>http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/jurisprudence/2008/october2008/133347.htm</ref> The new network was named the "Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation" after [[Mount Banahaw]], a dormant volcano located in southern [[Luzon]] known for its [[hot spring]]s and mystical associations.

In July 1978, BBC, KBS and another Benedicto-owned network, the [[Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation|Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC)]] (which originally aired from [[San Juan, Metro Manila|San Juan del Monte]]), transferred to the [[Broadcast City]] compound in Old Balara, Quezon City, with the transmitter located along Panay Avenue, Quezon City, by then newly upgraded for better broadcast reception. This left [[DWGT-TV|Channel 4]] (a frequency formerly owned by ABS-CBN and taken over by the government through [[National Media Production Center]] (NMPC) as [[People's Television Network|Government Television]] in 1974) at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center complex, then renamed MBS Broadcast Plaza (MBS being Maharlika Broadcasting System, the name that Channel 4 acquired in 1980).

By December 1973, the network also operated [[DYCB-TV|DYCB-TV 3]] in [[Cebu City|Cebu]] and [[DYXL-TV|DYXL-TV 4]] in [[Bacolod]], both of which were also originally owned by ABS-CBN. Their call signs were also changed to DYCW-TV and DYBW-TV, respectively. The Cebu and Bacolod stations switched affiliations to GTV (Government Television; later the Maharlika Broadcasting System) in 1978 and reverted to their former call letters.

BBC-2 was rebranded as City 2 Television from 1980 until 1984. In 1984, it was rebranded again back as BBC-2. BBC ended operations on March 20, 1986 after [[People Power Revolution]] along with RPN and IBC (temporarily), after reformist soldiers disabled the transmitter that was broadcasting Marcos' inauguration from [[Malacañang Palace]].<ref>http://stuartxchange.com/DayFour.html</ref> Upon [[Corazon Aquino|Corazón C. Aquino]]'s subsequent accession to the presidency, BBC, RPN and IBC (collectively known as "Broadcast City") were sequestered and placed under the management of a Board of Administrators tasked to operate and manage its business and affairs subject to the control and supervision of [[Presidential Commission on Good Government]].<ref>http://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/decisions.php?doctype=Decisions%20/%20Signed%20Resolutions&docid=1311062211772857320</ref><ref>http://www.lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1986/eo_11_1986.html</ref> ABS-CBN resumed broadcasting on September 14, 1986 and its Cebu and Bacolod stations were returned to its original owner. DWWX-TV is still used as the callsign of the network's flagship station in Metro Manila.

BBC became well-remembered for its trademark jingle, ''Big Beautiful Country'', composed by [[Jose Mari Chan|José Mari Chan]] and sung by various OPM singers of the 70s. By 1980, its relaunch as City 2 made history as the first national station to incorporate computer-generated graphics using the [[Scanimate]] system for its station identity and promo spots.

==Programming==
{{main article|List of programs aired by Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation}}

==Radio stations==
*[[DWAN|DWWA 1160/1206]] - Metro Manila. Call letters were changed to DWAN; it was later owned by [[Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation]] and then under the management of [[Metropolitan Manila Development Authority]]. This station is currently inactive.
*[[DWRR 101.9|DWWK-FM/DWOK-FM 101.9]] - Metro Manila. The frequency was awarded to [[ABS-CBN]] in 1986.

==See also==
*[[DWWX-TV]]
*[[DWRR 101.9]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Television in the Philippines}}

[[Category:Defunct Philippine television networks]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1973]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 1986]]

[[en:Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation]]