UAAP 2013 Telecast on PTV Primetime

April 29, 2013

The UAAP 2013 telecast on PTV Primetime! The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) kicks off its 75th season with its new television partner PTV, the country's premiere government-owned TV network known as Telebisyon ng Bayan.

This year’s host De La Salle University with Fr. Maximino D. Rendon, C.M. has prepared a grand opening number which will be held at the Cuneta Astrodome. The exciting cheerleading competition concludes the successful 75th Season of the UAAP which joined forces with the People's Television Network at the beginning of the season. “We are thankful to the UAAP for partnering with us. The league brought audiences thrilling sports action not only in basketball but also in other sports.

Students, alumni and other sports fanatics will surely be excited for the UAAP this season airing on the government-owned People's Television Network. The basketball games will be brought to a wider audience with its primetime schedule with one game every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday starting at 7pm and two-games on Sunday starting at 4pm. Various UAAP sports like volleyball, swimming, taekwondo, chess, tennis, table tennis, andbeach volleyball will also be given full-game coverage on and season-long highlights.

PTV and the UAAP formalized its new partnership last June 2012. The UAAP is the latest addition to the programming line-up of PTV as Telebisyon ng Bayan that includes the ABL and UCAA games, the educational programming on television CONSTEL: Counting Studies via Television will including Physics in Everyday Life, Chemsitry in Action, Science Made Easy, Fun with Math and English High School, and the PTV's flagship national news programs like Panahon.TV, Balitaan, Good Morning Boss!, News@1, PTV Sports, News@6 and NewsLife along with weekends News@1: The Week that Was, News@1 Junior and The Weekend News together with The Veronica Chronicles, I-Connect, PTV Special Forum, GSIS Members Hour, Biz News, Damayan and Government@Work together with sports coverage like Masters Tournament, the Asian Games, the Southeast Asian Games and the Olympic Games, an election coverage Hatol ng Bayan 2013 and award-winning cultural and educational programs Concert at the Park, Ating Alamin, Paco Park Presents, noontime children's cartoons Cartoon Hour, Mag-Agri Tayo! and Tele-Aralan ng Kakayahan.

The UAAP is currently composed of 12 member schools - Far Eastern University, National University, Adamson University, University of Santo Tomas, University of the East, Far Eastern University Diliman, University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas High School, De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School, De La Salle University, University of the Philippines Integrated School and Ateneo de Manila University under probationary status and the member.

PTV is the national television network of the government where the UAAP games are shown. Also airing vairous popular sports basketball events on PTV-4 like the Universities and Colleges Athletic Association (UCAA) and ASEAN Basketball League (ABL).