NMTV

New Media Television, known on air as NMTV, is a Philippine free-to-air television network based in Cebu City, with alternate offices and studios located in Metro Manila. It is the flagship property of New Media Partners, Inc. with SCA Television Specifications and Sunburst Television Studios as the main content providers, with the latter being owned by SRBS Corporation. NMTV's flagship television station is DWSC-TV, which carries UHF channel 18 in the analogue feed and channel 36 in the digital spectrum.

NMTV was originally a consortium of television stations in Visayas and Mindanao that provided regional programmes and shared content across the archipelago, until it was reorganised into a single corporation under the SCA Television Networks, Inc, which holds most of the legislative franchises of the regional stations. It was later bought by SRBS Corporation, but was abruptly shutdown because of issues inside the company. SCA Television was soon spun-off to NMTV, under the New Media Partners branding created by a group of former SCA employees.

1973: Television Law; Committee for Television Broadcasting
Exactly one year after President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in September 23, 1972, the Philippine Congress at that time passed an act to control and regulate radio and television broadcasting in the Philippines. It included a clause that "no franchisee shall own more than one frequency, unless permitted by the governing body". The result was the creation of a new regulatory body, the Committee for Television Broadcasting, organised under the Office of the Press Secretary and the Board of Communications.

The CTB heavily regulated the radio and television industry and awarded franchises to promising companies. The agency also provided national and regional news to the individual companies from the Philippine News Agency, as it regulated news outputs from the franchisees, with them going so far as to revoke their license whenever the government gets criticised. Each regional service had its own on-screen identity to distinguish it from other regions, since there was often a sizeable overlap in reception capability within each region.

Upon the creation of the body, four franchises were awarded for Metro Manila, Batanes, and Ilocos Norte. The companies for these provinces consisted of Novaliches Central (Metro Manila), BTV (Batanes), BCTV (Batanes), and DTV (Ilocos Norte).

1974: Launch; Scramble for VisMin
The first CTB contractor to begin broadcasting was Novaliches Central, on April 2, 1974 beginning at 6:00pm. During the first nights of its broadcast, it took calls from people in the Manila area that congratulated the network's launch.

A year after CTB was formed, multiple companies from Visayas and Mindanao began to apply for franchises to broadcast from their own provincial areas.

1976-1979
In 1976, the CTB secretary, Rolando Espino, Jr., conducted an investigation of all the CTB companies following the launch of GTV-4, which was integrated as a government station by the National Media Production Center two years ago, which heavily criticised the Committee. The CTB would review the networks' performance, and either grant them extension for their franchises or replace them with another promising set of companies. Reviews like this also ensured that the companies maintained their high performance by maintaining the possibility of the loss of their licence.

Despite the review, no company has lost its position as the local CTB contractor for their region and all licences were extended for three more years. The only change to the network was the formation of a single Davao Region network franchise, operated by RT-DBW, following the collapse of Gulf Southern Network. The network ran into trouble when it was constructing its central transmitter, which was more powerful than its competitor, Davao Regional Networks, and was even more powerful than GTV-4's, as well as strict provisions in its contract to broadcast the Bisaya-language newscast from PNA. This meant that GSN was losing money rapidly and, despite some help from other CTB companies, declared itself bankrupt on November 2, 1976.