General Station Television

General Station Television is a Philippine commercial television network founded on July 4, 1975. It distributes and broadcasts Technic Heroes film series, Bionicle series, The Drillmation Series, Jamie's Got Tentacles!, Magic Vari, Countryballs: The Animated Series, Magically Girlz and other United El Kadsreian Nations, Croeyan, Herzolish, Minecraftian, Simerican, Azaran, Alexonian, Jetanian, Kuboian, and YinYangian programs, etc. It has sisters channels, GS Anime, GS Cinema, GS Comedy, GS Drama, GS Kids, GS Lifestyle, GS Reality, GS Sports, and GS World.

History
The network was founded on July 4, 1975 by Alfonsio Rubio Jr.. It's allowed to operate during Martial Law years. The first TV station was DWGS-TV channel 5 (now channel 10) in Metro Manila. It was followed by other Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao stations from 1976 to 1983. The first program was Hello GSTV hosted by Miss Lio, a Chinese Filipino who spoke very little Tagalog at the time.

The network gained popularity when Filipino viewers had critically acclaimed the Drillmation Series anime starting with Angry German Kid and other entertainment programs including a Vlokozuian program in 1978.

During the EDSA revolution happened, GSTV opened more TV stations, with DWGS-TV frequencies moved to channel 11 on November 1, 1986 and became fully privatized. In 1993, the channel moved to VHF 10. On 1994, GSTV was acquired by PolyGram Holdings.

On September 7, 2012, GSTV becomes first Philippine television network to broadcast in full HD (1080p), available on SkyCable, Destiny Cable, Cignal Digital Philippines, etc. It also available in El Kadsre via ElStar and Cignal Digital UEKN.

Programs
See List of programs broadcast by GSTV.

Broadcast hours history

 * 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm (1975-1980)
 * 12:00 am to 11:00 pm (1980-1983)
 * 10:00 am to 11:00 pm (1983-1986)
 * 10:00 am to 12:00 am (1986-1991)
 * 8:00 am to 12:00 am (1991-1999)
 * 6:00 am to 12:00 am (1999-2005)
 * 6:00 am to 1:00 am (2005-2010)
 * 5:30 am to 1:00 am (2010-2011)
 * 5:00 am to 1:00 am (2011-2016)
 * 24 hours (2016-present)