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Defunct news and current affairs division of Nine Media Corporation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nine Media News and Current Affairs (formerly known as Solar News and Current Affairs/Solar News and 9News and Current Affairs/9News) was the news and public affairs production arm and sole division of the Philippine media company Nine Media Corporation, which have been leased airtime from Southern Broadcasting Network (2011–2013) and Radio Philippines Network (2012–2024). The division supplies local news and content for Nine Media's television brands Talk TV, Solar News Channel, 9TV, and CNN Philippines. 9News stopped using this brand when the channel was launched as CNN Philippines on March 16, 2015, and the division was finally dissolved following the channel's closure on January 31, 2024, citing financial losses.
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As Solar News (2012-2014)
After Solar Entertainment Corporation acquired 34 percent of Radio Philippines Network from the Philippine government as part of the RPN/IBC privatization in 2011, Solar TV launched Talk TV on March 2, 2011, and finally ventured into news at the end of 2011.[1] On July 16, 2012, Solar News launched its first local newscasts, including Solar Network News, Solar Newsday, Solar Daybreak and Solar Nightly News. On October 30, 2012, two newscasts began airing on RPN (by-then affiliated with entertainment channel ETC) after it ceased its production of in-house flagship newscast RPN NewsWatch due to the retrenchment of the program's production team and other employees of the privatized network. On the same day, Talk TV rebranded as Solar News Channel on SBN UHF Channel 21 until November 30, 2013, when the channel transferred to RPN.
As 9News (2014-2015)
In November 2013, San Miguel Corporation President and COO Ramon S. Ang acquired a majority stake in Solar Television Network as well as its stake on RPN. The Tiengs were the majority stockholders then of STVNI.[2]
On August 20, 2014, Solar Entertainment Corporation chief Wilson Tieng announced that he had sold his entire share of Solar TV Network, Inc., including its 34% majority share of RPN, to Antonio Cabangon-Chua, owner of business newspaper BusinessMirror and Aliw Broadcasting Corporation. The Tiengs were losing money after they invested in RPN, and the group focused on the cable channels of the Solar Entertainment Corporation.[3][4] To reflect the change of ownership, and upon announcement of the rebranding of Solar News Channel into 9TV by August 23, Solar News also rebranded to 9News, retaining its news and current affairs programming as 9TV expanded its weekend programming.[5][6][7]
As CNN Philippines (2015-2024)
9News underwent a major overhaul in 2015, as parent Nine Media Corporation signed a five-year brand licensing agreement (later extended until the end of 2024) with Turner Broadcasting System/Warner Bros. Discovery to share resources with CNN to integrate the latter's content and 9News's reporting as CNN Philippines, which launched on March 16, 2015.
Closure
On January 25, 2024, Media Newser Philippines reported that Nine Media Corporation and CNN were closing down CNN Philippines by mutual agreement due to financial losses, as well as poor ratings of the network and loss of advertisers' support.[8]
Nine Media News and Current Affairs was dissolved a week late, on January 31, 2024. The division's live news operations had ceased on January 29, citing financial losses and a shift in focus to the operations of their sister channel, Aliw Channel 23.[9][10]
On the same day, after CNN Philippines signed off at 10:00 p.m., TV5 Network took over RPN's airtime and formally launched its replacement channel RPTV the following day. Its news programs are now outsourced from TV5's news division News5, which acquired Nine Media News and Current Affairs' news operations and assets. On July 1, 2024, CNN Philippines' operations and assets, as well as its current affairs archives, were handled over to the newly created NewsWatch Plus, a news service created by Nine Media Corporation together with its parent Broadreach Media Holdings, Inc and independently managed by former staff of CNN Philippines. The said launch was the revamp of former RPN's in-house newscast, which was defunct 11 years ago. Its current affairs archives will be seen initially on online and digital platform starting from July 1, 2024, and later on TV (via RPTV and Aliw Channel 23).[11] Other several personalities and remaining staff who are not part of its successor outlet (including the likes of Pinky Webb and Mai Rodriguez), however, were later resurfaced on Prage's newly launched news channel Bilyonaryo News Channel.
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