Interpreting the Context of AkTV and IBC ending their Blocktime Agreement

Friday, April 12, 2013

On Spin, Snow Badua noted that MVP made the announcement that its blocktime agreement with IBC-13 (through AKTV, which is under the arm of Mediaquest Holdings, Inc) will not be renewed when it ends in May, it will be retained the PBA is the only Sports5-produced program for IBC.

Snow's source noted that AKTV would then move its coverage to TV5.

When this broke, Interaksyon posted this almost one hour later. Within that, they included their business article (as a link) detailing MVP's announcement of the end of their blocktime agreement, which was posted at 5:45pm, a couple of hours before the Spin piece was posted. The business post denoted that the block-timing agreement was not profiting as much as what they expected, so they decided not to renew it when it ends in May. It also clearly made it known that any commitments that AKTV is in connection with will be maintained.

Here are things that we know: