Brief History of Philippine Media

By neriralphg
  • 1560

    Pre-Colonial Traces

    -Developed a system of communication and information dissemination
    -Learning language system in a written form
    -Ancient alphabet is called Alibata or Baybayin
    -Folk tales and epics, as well as family storties helped in developing mulit-language archipelago
    -Umalohokan or the town crier s the closest broadcast system of information dissemination in town
    -Barangay head or datu calls for sepcial election to place someone as the Umulahokan to help settle in a certain dispute

  • The Print Industry and Filipino Freedom

    Books,magazine & newspapers brought to the Philippines, but mostly printed in different language
    Predominant literate ruling during Spanish colonial period over unschooled & uneducated lower class
    First newspaper in the country(1811)mostly made for Spaniards
    Del Superior Govierno
    La Solidaridad published in(1889)
    The Manila times(1898)
    Manila Bulletin(1900)
    Alternative Press Publication(1980s)
    Bill of rights guarantee freedom of press(1987)
    Liwayway magazine(1900s)
    American commic arrival(1940s)

  • The Broadcast Industry

    Telegraph& Telephone system in the country during the Spanish colonial period(1800s)
    1st telephone system of the country began its operation(1890)
    Americans took over the operations of the telegraphs &telephones(1990)
    Radio Broadcast experiments(1920s)
    Henry Herman first operated a small radio station(1922)
    Television(1946)
    Licensed perceived tv station(1950)
    DZAQ-TV channel 3 first tv broadcast(1953)
    The Manila Chronicle(1956) then merger of ABS-CBN later on
    top 2 stations today ABS-CBN & GMA &

  • The European Film Import

    -Launching of cinema by Lumiere Brothers cinematographe
    -Short Films (1897)
    -America's Short film was imported in Manila (1900s)
    -Zazuela (1800s & 1900s)
    -Very first Filipino film produced by Jose Nepomuceno's Dalagang Bukid (1919)
    -Dawn of freedom (1949)
    -Golden age of Philippine cinema
    -Garnered honors for the country's film (1950s)
    -Manuel Conde bought Asian films to Italy & France (1952)
    -Force shutdown of studios (1960)
    -Predominant youth subculture(1960s-1970s)
    -ABS-CBN(1990s)
    -GMA7(2000s)

  • Local Online Media

    -Philippine officially connected to the world of internet on March 1994
    -First commercial internet service provider by MosCom August 1994
    -1987 BBS groups created a network to connect with each other
    -1990 proposal to have a similar network connection
    -email exchange 1993
    -internet, internet cafes,& games
    -Accessing internet via cellphones
    -Philippines named as the "Social media capital of the world" in 2011 as 93.9 population area are heavy Facebook users
    -Philippines, top 10 heavy twitter user