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1953
After setting up a transmitter tower in San Juan and importing 300 TV sets, Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) on October 23 airs a party that ABS co-owner Tony Quirino hosts at his home
Quirino had bought into Bolinao Electronics, James Lindenberg’s five-year-old firm supplying radio equipment to Filipino broadcasters. Bolinao was then renamed Alto, after Quirino and his wife Aleli
1991
To carry out ABS-CBN’s venture into filmmaking, then CFO Eugenio Lopez III recruits Charo Santos-Concio, Malou Santos, Simon Ongpin and Olive Lamasan, among others, for Star Cinema
1993
Star Cinema’s initial offering, “Adan Ronquillo,” a coproduction with Regal Films, earns P58.2 million at the box office
1990
Central CATV Inc. becomes the first cable operator in the Philippines. It is now known as SKYcable.
1994
Launch of SKY in Cebu.
1995
More and original channels are introduced, including MYX and SNN.
Ribbon Cutting of Kayu - Chef Izzy Sy, Don Luis Aboitiz, Mayor Paz Radaza, Elo Fernan, and Ambassador Manuel Lopez(background Ria Sy Francis Sy, Reesha Sy, Marisse Sy)November 2012
Rockwell Land Corporation acquires the 3.2-hectare property, 32 Sanson, where the home of the Aboitiz family and their furniture factory and showroom, Mehitabel, once stood.
1961
Meralco Securities Corp. (MSC), the future First Philippine Holdings Corp. (FPH), is founded as a vehicle to purchase and operate power utility Meralco. Soon after, owner Eugenio Lopez Sr. (EL Sr.) fast-tracks Meralco’s expansion program.
1966
Oscar M. Lopez (OML), the second of EL Sr.’s five children, heads the newly created Department of Economic Research and Development of MSC.
1967
Meralco Securities Industrial Corp. (MSIC) is organized to build and operate pipelines to bring petroleum products from the refineries in Batangas; today, the company is known as First Philippine Industrial Corp.
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