IBC-13 expands primetime drama with 'Maghihintay Sa'yo'

January 25, 2014

Remember of TODAS which stars Joey de Leon, Val Sotto, Spanky Rigor, Ritchie D' Horsey, Maribeth Bitchara and Frida Fonda, Iskul Bukol top-billed by Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon, and Eh Kasi Babae starring Gloria Diaz, Bessie Badillia, Debbie Miller, Tia Pusit and Charlie Davao, all the shows watching on IBC.

Schedule of the old shows on primetime: Monday for PPP: Piling Piling Pelikula, Tuesday for Iskul Bukol and Barrio Balimbing, Wednesday for TODAS, Chicks to Chicks and Loveliness with Alma Moreno, Thursday for Pinoy Thriller, Eh Kasi Babae and See-True with Inday Badiday, Friday for Tagalog Movie Greats and Regal Drama Hour presents Aiko, Saturday for Ora Engkantada with Luz Valdez, Sic O'Clock News, 13 14 15 with Ruffa Gutierrez, Aiko Melendez and Carmina Villaroel, and Sunday for The Sharon Cuneta Show and Sunday Funday with Aga Muhlach. Primetime soap opera like Ula Ang Batang Gubat with Judy Ann Santos and Andrea Amor with Janice de Belen, and the #1 gag show Goin' Bananas starring Christopher de Leon, Edgar Mortiz,Jay Ilagan,Al Tanay, Johnny Delgado and Zorayda Sanchez..

Now brimming with a lot of fresh and innovative shows in a top-rated and profitable broadcast network, IBC unveils another roster of shows that will now complete your viewing habit from daytime, primetime, to late night. The undisputed and certified no. 3 network has renovated its primetime television history, starting with the sitcoms, gag shows and political satires,variety shows, dramas, reality shows and game shows. The Kapinoy Network also aired line-up with the Viva Tagalog movies and the PBA and NBA basketball.

Canoy-led Intercontinental Broadcasting Corp. (IBC) has also beefed up its sports programming in action, which is anchored on airing the games of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) three times a week and the National Basketball Association (NBA) for weekends. The PBA is considered the second oldest play-for-pay professional basketball league in the world next to the NBA.

IBC just announced that it is the official Philippine broadcaster of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia which start next month. Viva Sports awarded the rights to be the exclusive Philippine broadcaster of the MNanjing Summer Youth Olympic Games in China in August, and the 31st Summer Olympaid in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in August 2016 for Filipino sports fans. Viva Sports on IBC will also air the Youth Olympic Games from August 16 to 28 at the same time.

Programming line-up success with the primetime newscast Express Balita beaten the rival newscasts and they expanded by airing their own daily dramas opposite their rivals of soaps for the huge success as counter-programming for their own weekday primetime teleserye.

It has been aggressively luring the best people in the industry to join its turf, producing quality shows to compete head to head with those offerings of ABS-CBN and GMA. In fact, more and more veteran actors had already signed up for different shows in the network will continue to challenge what seems to be a repetition of the prime time formula to compete in the entertainment and mass media industry.

The network already strings of hit shows on belt with Born to be a Superstar, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, The Million Second Quiz, DMZ-TV, Sandy's Romance, KapinoyLand, Maya Loves Sir Chief, Whattaboys, APO Tanghali Na! and T.O.D.A.S.. The superstar network aims to turn IBC around back to the glory days with its own pool of talents as the third leading network.

It has now also produced several drama series which are already very much competitive quality-wise sans those produced by rival networks. The Kapinoy Network is bringing drama to a new level upon producing its new soap operas. This is poised to be a new platform of drama production in Philippine television dominated by soap operas running for an average patterned with Mexican, Korean and Japanese drama serials featuring a fast-paced storyline and stellar casting had their foot in the door.

The sequestered TV station is now very aggressive in making its presence felt on primetime, The Kapinoy network is really decided to pit the Primetime Bida of ABS-CBN and the Telebabad of GMA via their Kapinoy Primetime. Starting this Monday, IBC is now offering six TV series on primetime with the premiere telecast of hit fantaseryes Carita de Angel and Janella in Wonderland, I Will Be Here, the most-anticipated primetime romantic teleserye Your Heart, My Love, the hit telenovela La Madrastra, and the Koreanovela My Love Patzzi.

Fighting beef up their primetime with new and exciting line up of shows which getting into the ratings game with ABS-CBN's Primetime Bida and GMA Telebabad is IBC's Kapinoy Primetime.

This format has been attributed to the high quality of Mexican and Korean TV serials, since the quality of the story and execution can be well-attended by the production people given with the fact that episodes.

Weeknights will definitely more exciting and more surprising, the no. 3 network will pit with the debut of 6 primetime series offerings against for more established line-up of the two networks like ABS-CBN and GMA — Carita de Angel, Janella in Wonderland, I Will Be Here, Your Heart, My Love, La Madrastra and My Love Patzzi in the series dominated by the Kapamilya and Kapuso network with a huge margin.

Headlined by the network’s top superstars, the 3 dramas are sure to engage viewers with its unique, inspiring, fantasy and love stories, that are completely different from the typical teleserye fare.

This year last January 6 on primetime to further the network’s drama line-up definitely get the top spot in the TV ratings race, the country’s third ranking network IBC had already premiered its newest fantaseryes on primetime are Carita de Angel starring the child star wonder Mutya Orquia in the lead role aired at 5:45PM competes with the rival teleseryes Annaliza and Paraiso Ko'y Ikaw and Janella in Wonderland top-billed by the teen star princess Janella Salvador as the title role at 7:45PM competes with Honesto and Adarna in the ratings showing that Pinoy audience crack a bigger share of the audience pie, as well as the mini-series I Will Be Here starring Jake Cuena at 8:30PM competes with the rival series such as Got to Believe and Carmela.

In the tradition of the most heart-moving Filipino soap operas of all time, IBC is a primetime drama expanding line-up in primetime with Your Heart, My Love, a romantic drama in unique blend of romantic drama, melodrama, suspense and action. This primetime hit romantic teleserye is topbilled by the optimum teleserye queen Claudine Barretto as the multi-awarded actress in television and movies together with Diether Ocampo and the action star Raymart Santiago. Makes the first teleserye of Barretto on IBC.

The series in a compelling, love and romantic story is premiere on January 27, 2014 starting at 9:15PM competes with the rival teleseryes of The Legal Wife and Rhodora X. Joining Barretto and Santiago are the veteran actors like Sandy Andalong, Christopher de Leon, the award-winning actress Cherry Pie Picache, the veteran actor Ronaldo Valdez, the veteran actress Ces Quesada and Ian Veneracion, whose lives intertwined with that of the veteran stars with Princess Punzalan and Juan Rodrigo.