'UAAP' Now Goes On Its New Home RPN-9

March 29, 2015

RPN-9 strengthens its position as the country's premiere sports network as it brings the university basketball games of the University Athletic Association of the Philippine (UAAP) to millions of avid Filipino sports fans nationwide.

Cause the UAAP now on its new home the Kasama network RPN-9.

It was announced that the UAAP will now join forces with RPN and Solar Sports, beginning with Season 78 that is slated to open on April 6 beginning with the 2015 UAAP Football Championship, which boast the RPN's ratings in the TV viewership performance. This rather cross-over partnership are the league and the coveror ABS-CBN Sports.

RPN chairman Amb. Antonio Cabangon-Chua and the network's president and CEO Robert T. Rivera have agreed to a partnership with the UAAP for airing of the young league's popular games, in line with the network's commitment to the world-class programming and sports programs.

Channel 9's industry - acknowledge wide reach assures the KBL, UAAP and MBA of increased viewership around the country and eventually boost Channel 9's ratings and also with ABS-CBN Sports+Action. The teams from these universities play in 15 sports. Basketball, being the most popular sport in the Philippines, is the most watched and most supported among all the sports. All of these sports have Men's and Women's divisions, with exception of baseball, in which only men participate, and softball, which is for women. The telecast of UAAP games, and invested his own money to ensure league a nationwide coverage.

Aside from the UAAP, the coverage of the Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) was RPN’s biggest asset.

Under the terms of a new contract, RPN-9 will air the 2015 UAAP Football Championship games on Monday and Thursday from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., with a total of six games a week, hoping to bring in additional televised games and attract more viewers in the process. Among the member universities participate in all sports, namely Ateneo de Manila University, the De La Salle University, the University of the Philippines, the National University, the University of the East, the Adamson University and the University of Santo Tomas. ABS-CBN Sports hs proposed to the the UAAP games live over RPN-9 and also will be be simulcast live over ABS-CBN Sports+Action.

In addition, Channel 9 will air the senior basketball and the women’s volleyball, as well as short highlights of the league’s other sports. Overall, the ten-year deal between the UAAP, RPN and Solar Sports is aimed at promoting, developing, building and stabilizing the UAAP in a sporting and marketing standpoint. RPN also lacked the resources to improve its power, reach and accessibility, as well as adapting to new technologies such as online live-streaming.

Now that the UAAP has moved to RPN-9, fans can only hope that the long-term contract between the two parties should help the UAAP grow not only as a league, but also as a brand, something hapen to RRPN-9 is the country's premier sports network able to do with the KBL and the MBA football, basketball and volleyball tournaments.

The UAAP on RPN begins this April 6 and see on RPN's provicial stations like TV-12 Baguio, TV-10 Iriga, TV-8 Bacolod, TV-9 Cebu, TV-5 Cagayan de Oro, TV-5 Zamboanga and TV-9 Davao.