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13 unusual facts about The Filipino Channel


Balitang America

Balitang America (News America) is a 30-minute daily newscast with a nationwide scope, airing via satellite subscription on The Filipino Channel and its local affiliate station in the San Francisco Bay Area, KTSF.

The Filipino Channel targets this newscast to air over its other nationwide station affiliates as well as worldwide, via satellite.

Daniela Torrealba

The pageant was broadcast live via ABS-CBN in the Philippines and to many countries worldwide via Star World, The Filipino Channel and other partner networks.

Five Corners, Jersey City

The many stores around the intersection create a Little Manila including one of the first Filipino American groceries, Phil-Am Food Mart (now known as Phil-Am Merchandising and Casa Victoria) and The Filipino Channel.

Gretchen Fullido

Fullido is the current anchor for the segment, Star Patrol on TV Patrol and under the contract of ABS-CBN and TFC.

In 2011, Fullido made her television debut in ABS-CBN and The Filipino Channel with TV Patrol; as the replacement anchor for Star Patrol, replacing Christine Bersola-Babao.

Jannelle So

So has also worked as a correspondent for various news programs airing on The Filipino Channel.

Mike Guingona

Guingona co-hosted the program Citizen Pinoy on The Filipino Channel which was launched in 2005 in the U.S. and the Philippines.

Niña Corpuz

Niña anchors a news program, Balitang Europe, which airs on The Filipino Channel (TFC) and ANC.

Nobody, Nobody But... Juan

Juan's favorite pastime is watching Wowowee on The Filipino Channel, though he does not watch the show just for entertainment's sake.

The Filipino Channel

On September 24, 1994, then ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation (now ABS-CBN Corporation) through its newly established subsidiary ABS-CBN International signed a historic deal with the PanAmSat to bring the first trans-Pacific Asian programming service to some two million Filipino immigrants in the United States using the then-newly launched PAS 2 satellite.

The Filipino Channel (officially abbreviated as TFC) is a global brand of premium television network based in Redwood City, California.

A Mother's Story - distributed by ABS-CBN International (abroad) and Star Cinema (Philippines)


Caroline Duffy

The pageant will be broadcast live via ABS-CBN in the Philippines and to more than 80 countries worldwide via Star World, The Filipino Channel and other partner networks.

PINAGMULAN: The Journey Home

PINAGMULAN: The Journey Home (Origin: The Journey Home) was a reality television show that aired Sundays on TFC after TV Patrol.