From GMA News TV to GTV

A week short of its 10th year, GMA News TV will become GTV starting tomorrow.

Dubbed as the country’s first free-to-air news and public affairs channel, GMA News TV started losing steam 3 years after its debut by adding a handful of entertainment programs. Despite reviving the Dobol B block in 2017 and its move from Channel 11 to Channel 27 in 2019, it only managed to maximize its news and public affairs programming to at most 80%.

By September 2020, GNTV’s news and public affairs programming, including its Dobol B block, began decreasing with the addition of movie blocks, anime in the morning and a couple of asianovelas. By November that year, GMA struck a deal with NCAA. At the same month, the channel revealed its new shows, most of them which are youth-oriented. Among them are The Lost Recipe and anthology My Fantastic Pag-Ibig, both which started…