RPN is home of ABL

October 12, 2013

The ABL basketball with the deal of the government-owned sequestered TV and radio station RPN-9 on the league's television live coverage with the ABL franchise.

The Kasama Network remains a third in ranking and carries the ABL (ASEAN Basketball League), which as popular as basketball games. Sure, the ABL airing this station despite the games increased popularity there is an audience for basketball in this country. ABL had the programming schedule on RPN-9 improve programming. The network's flagship national news programs Arangkada Balita (Angelique Lazo) and NewsWatch (Kiko Pangilinan) develop among the viewers while airing the games on ABL nights making more money.

The government-owned stations are Channel 4 (PTV), Channel 9 (RPN) and Channel 13 (IBC) having the basketball games at the same time of the networks.

Borh the government networks in sports products, PTV-4 airing the UAAP games (also simulcast over Studio 23), RPN-9 has the ABL games along with the popular and top-rated canned foreign shows in the US, hit telenovelas, asianovelas, animes and more mass-based local programming and IBC-13 remains the certified number 3, airing the PBA and NBA basketball games along with the local productions.

The ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) signed a contract with Radio Philippines Network (RPN) to cover the basketball games live for over a million pesos with Solar Sports, a sports channel of Solar Entertainment Corporation. Aside from the live games of ABL aired on RPN in the TV industry, Solar Sports would provide additional coverage on Basketball TV cable channel to highlight its own professional basketball league.

The league schedules its games on Saturdays and Sundays to accommodate the airing of the local productions like The Million Peso Money Drop, BOSES: Tinig P-Noy, Superstar, Spin-A-Win, Roderick en Nova, Champoy and Mister Kemis Bayani increasing the ratings to help boost Channel 9's ratings while the country's leading men's professional basketball league in Southeast Asia.

Six clubs from six different countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the teams of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam with San Miguel Beermen, Indonesia Warriors, Siagon Heat, the JobStreet.com Singapore Slingers, the Westports Malaysia Dragons, the Philippine Patriots, the Chang Thailand Slammers and Sports Rev Thailand Slammers.

This came about as The Kasama Network has carry ABL games and intends to improve its news program as part of its plan to restructure and be competitive against business giants ABS-CBN-2 and GMA-7 along with the number 3 spot of IBC-13, TV5 and Studio 23. The changes, RPN and Viva Sports said, are necessary to counteract the growing opposition posed by the soap operas, sitcoms, drama anthologies, game shows and reality shows being aired by other networks during the nightcap of the double-header league.