DWVC-TV

DWVC-TV (virtual and digital channel 7) is a PlayStation TV affiliate owned by Sunbeam Television. This station is the only international channel owned by Sunbeam Television, making it a sister station of WSVN, WHDH, and WLVI.

Under RKO ownership
October of 1953, 2 new stations signed on on television, DZAQ-TV channel 3 (now DWWX-TV channel 2, ABS-CBN flagship station) and DZVC-TV channel 85 (former place of VGC, now independent). ABS went first place due to low number of television sets at the time that had UHF capability. VGC went to Dagupan, when General Teleradio (RKO General), which, at the time, owns KHJ-TV (now CBS-owned KCAL-TV), WNAC-TV (now independent station WHDH-TV), and WOR-TV (now MyNetworkTV O&O WWOR-TV), also went to Dagupan. VGC and General joined forces to make a VGC station running on the VHF dial. Then DWVC-TV was born. The DWVC callsign has the same meaning as the DZVC callsign, which is the former legal name of VGC. It signed on with VGC TV affiliation. General Teleradio also made secondary affiliations with NBC. DWVC was the first station to introduce color television in the Philippines. In 1956, NBC introduced color programming. So, DWVC followed suit. Using RCA's color system, local news and NBC programming went to color, as VGC did not went to color yet. In 1959, General Teleradio became RKO General, combining RKO's TV division and General Tire's TV division. In 1965, VGC finally went to color broadcast, which made DWVC a "fully-colored-programming" network. VGC was the only station at the time to have a regional station in the Luzon area, unlike ABS-CBN's DYCB-TV 3 Cebu and DYXL-TV 4 Bacolod. In 1972, due to VGC's "secretive" practices, VGC survived the martial law order to close all television stations without Marcos cronies. VGC ordered all of its television stations to have a one-month delay and do "secretive" practices. VGC's order could've been the reason of RKO's dishonesty case in America.

Also in 1972, DWVC changed its logo to the logo KMGH-TV in Denver, CO would use in 1983.

Sale to the Ansins
In 1983, the name "Sale to the Ansins" was the popular name of the news topic involving RKO General selling DWVC to Ed Ansin, the co-founder of Sunbeam Television. The reason was to avoid even the NTC to strip DWVC's license and to have some lessons about what happened to WNAC-TV. In 1982, David Mugar of New England Television replaced WNAC-TV with WNEV-TV with the same affiliation. WNEV would eventually become WHDH 8 years later, and Ansin would own that station after another 3 years. Since Ed Ansin owned WSVN, which is their first station, buying it from Cox in 1962, and is affiliated with NBC, Ansin continued the secondary NBC affiliations for another 7 years, until 1990, 2 years after NBC stripped WSVN's affiliation after numerous preempts.

TV3X1 (1998-2005)
In 1998, VGC replaced VGC TV with TV3X1, which the name symbolizes for its new flagship station, DWFV-TV channel 111. Then DWVC switched to TV3X1. VGC retained its 1997-98 fall season jingle for years but with new lyrics (specifically the VGC TV part being replaced by TV3X1 parts) and new music type.

PlayStation TV (2005-present)
DWTV-TV channel 26 (now DZPS-TV) in San Jose del Monte finished its one-year agreement with VGC to use the Satellite3X1 service. The results were great. So the DWTV owners formed BOMBO TV, with Bombo Radyo being involved, resulting in DZPS-AM 1080 as Bombo Radyo Manila 1080. BOMBO TV's pre-launch resulted in all VGC stations (except O&Os) to switch to BOMBO TV by January of 2005. DWVC was involved and VGC moved to sister station DZRK channel 15. BOMBO TV was bought by Sony and in 2013, BOMBO TV was turned to PlayStation TV, and DZPS-AM 1080, which once the Bombo Radyo of Manila, turned into a PlayStation Radio station.

Following VGC's acquisition of PlayStation for PHP4.5 trillion, PlayStation TV's stations got satellite digital broadcasts through VGC affiliates.

Logos
1953-1972 - DWVC used the WNAC-style 7.

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1972-1983 - DWVC used a logo that KMGH would use in the year DWVC dropped the logo.