IBCinema (TV channel)

**IBCinema**
Country	Philippines
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Network	IBC
Slogan	Enjoy ang movie, Kaibigan!
Headquarters	IBC Compound Center, Lot 3–B, Capitol Hills Drive cor. Zuzuarregui Street, Barangay Matandang Balara, Diliman, Quezon City
Programming
Language(s)	Filipino (main) ; English (secondary)
Picture format	1080i (HDTV); (downscaled to 16:9 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
Sister channel(s)	DWAN Channel; DMZ Channel; IBC Classics; IBC Kids
History
Launched	September 13, 2020 (test broadcast); October 5, 2020 (official launch)
Former names	IBC Box Office (2021–2022)
Links
Website	Official Website
Availability
Digital	17 (545.143MHz; LCN 11.30); (Digital test broadcast)
ABS-CBN TV Plus	Channel 40
GMA Affordabox	Channel 39
RPN Digivisionbox	Channel 36
IBC Digibox	Channel 04
Cable
SkyCable	Channel 51 (Digital)
Destiny Cable	Channel 51 (Digital)
Satellite
Cignal	Channel 45
G Sat	Channel 45
SatLite	Channel 45

IBCinema (stylized as IBCINEMA) is a Philippine free-to-air television channel created and owned by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation. IBCinema is the second movie channel of IBC after the former Cinema Movie (defunct), a cable channel owned by the network, and the first digital terrestrial television movie channel. The programming consists of mainstream and independent local films (including all the films shown on IBC's PPP: Piling–Piling Pelikula and Kaibigan Sinerama, IBC Plus' Kaibigan Movie Fest and PPP: Piling–Piling Pelikula) and Filipino-dubbed international films.

Named after IBC's former movie block of the same name, the channel was on test broadcast from September 13, 2020 until October 4, 2020, and was officially launched on October 5, 2020. As an all–movie channel, IBCinema operates daily from 5 am to 1 am.

It is the fourth network launched under the IBC television branding, along the leading TV network IBC, the Filipino-language UHF news channel IBC News Network, the UHF TV network IBC Plus and the digital archive television channel IBC Classics.

Overview[]

The channel consists from selected local and Filipino–dubbed international movies aired on IBC, IBC Plus and IBC Toons. As a digital channel, IBCinema is not allowed to compete with other movie channels in the Philippines that broadcast through cable and satellite. In March 22, 2021, IBCinema eventually picked up a new competition from GMA Network's digital movie channel I Heart Movies, whose approach tends to favor more movies and films as opposed to the same digital movie channel.

On July 4, 2022, IBCinema was revamped as the only movie channel, merging its movie programming with IBC Box Office, which was shut down permanently on July 3, 2022.

Programming[]

IBCinema carried local films from four Filipino major film companies (Viva Films, Seiko Films, Regal Entertainment, Solar Pictures and their own studio IBC Films) and minor film companies (OctoArts Films, Globe Studios, TBA Studios, Reality Entertainment and selected Filipino independent film companies), along with Filipino–dubbed international films from its distributors including Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures, among others.

Movie blocks[]

Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order.

Cine Chinese – showcasing Tagalog–dubbed Chinese movies every weekend morning.
Cine Pinoy – a block consisting of Filipino films released from 1970's to early 2000's.
Hapon Sine – a block consisting of Tagalog–dubbed foreign movies.
IBCinema Presents – weekend local movies every weekend.
Kaibigan Movie Marathon – weekend movie marathon.
Kaibigan Sinemax – a block consisting of contemporary Filipino films on Mondays to Thursdays and Eastern foreign movies on Friday.
Movietime – a block consisting of Tagalog–dubbed foreign movies.
PPP: Piling Piling Pelikula – showcasing Filipino action movie idols/legends from the 70s to the present.
Sine Aksyon – featuring local action films every Saturday night.
Spectacular Action on Screen – Tagalog–dubbed action films every Saturday night.
Sunday Movie Theater – Tagalog–dubbed foreign blockbuster movies every Sunday night.

Shorts[]

Cine Facts (facts on local movie celebrities; during commercial breaks)

Schedule[]

Monday–Friday

5 am – Sunday Movie Theater (replay) (M); Sine Aksyon (replay) (T–F)
7 am – Cine Pinoy (replay)
9 am – Movietime
11 am – Kaibigan Sinemax (replay)
1 pm – Cine Pinoy
3 pm – Hapon Sine
5 pm – Sine Aksyon
7 pm – Kaibigan Sinemax
9 pm – Movietime
11 pm – Cine Pinoy (replay)

Saturday

5 am – PPP: Piling Piling Pelikula (replay)
7 am – Cine Chinese
9 am – Kaibigan Movie Marathon
5 pm – IBCinema Presents
9 pm – Spectacular Action on Screen
11 pm – Movietime

Sunday

5 am – Sine Aksyon (replay)
7 am – Cine Chinese
9 am – Kaibigan Movie Marathon
5 pm – Spectacular Action on Screen (replay)
7 pm – PPP: Piling Piling Pelikula
9 pm – Sunday Movie Theater
11 pm – Movietime

Channel lineup[]

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
13.01	480i	4:3	IBC	IBC
13.02			IBC PLUS	IBC Plus
13.03			IBCLASSICS	IBC Classics
13.04			IBCINEMA	IBCinema
13.05			IBC KIDS	IBC Kids
13.06			DWAN CHANNEL	DWAN Channel
13.07			DMZ CHANNEL	DMZ Channel
13.31		240p	IBC OneSeg	IBC OneSeg

Notes

all non-encrypted digital terrestrial TV channels broadcast within the area of the household will also be carried.
IBC Classics, IBCinema, IBC Kids, DWAN Channel and DMZ Channel are encrypted and scrambled with Multi2–based encryption, because of that, thus requiring SMS activation to unscramble those channels.
IBC Classics, IBCinema, IBC Kids, DWAN Channel and DMZ Channel are their digital channels to IBC Digibox, a digital set–top box marketed by the network.