Five anniversary parties for Studio 23

Manila Standard (page 20), Thursday, October 4, 2001

Studio 23 celebrates its fifth year with an anniversary bash on October 6 at Powerplant in Rockwell Center.

Five unique parties will be held simultaneously under one roof. There's a Chill-out Room with lounge music, coffee, and conversation courtesy of Studio 23 hosts Ryan Agoncillo (The Explorer), JC Gonzalez (Digital Tour), Cher Calvin (Points of View), and Angel Jacob (Breakfast). A rave party will conjure the dark and haunted scenes in Charmed, The Others, Dark Angel, and Scariest Places On Earth with an international DJ spinning dance tracks. A hip-hop style bash will get together those who dig Dawson's Creek and Popular. Those who swear by rock music can bang their heads to no end at a Rock Concert with marathon performances from Myx and Halo-Halo heroes Slapshock and Sandwich. And for the more adventurous, there's a world music room with exotic tunes a la Survivor and Temptation Island played.

Since its first broadcast in 1996, Studio 23 has had plenty of reasons to celebrate in a grand scale. Groundbreaking shows like Dawson's Creek and Charmed have made the network a favorite among teens and twentysomethings.

New and exciting program are line up in the last remaining months of the year. The party has just begun for the station that dubs itself as "Cool TV." Studio 23's reality TV releases (Temptation Island, Survivor: Africa, Murder in Small Town X) and its upcoming offerings in teen television (Dark Angel), drama (The District), and comedy (Veronica's Closet, Just Shoot Me, Bewitched) affirm the channel's leadership in UHF programming.