Bye GMA...Hello ABC-GMA

[pexmode]

ubos siguro yaman ni mvp pag binili niya ang abs

[jingdalagan]

ubos siguro yaman ni mvp pag binili niya ang abs

mag-raise muna siya ng Php60billion, yun ang asking price eh

wag nyong sabihing papalag siya

[DeeCenDee]

jingdalagan

[MarionRivero]

Ateng, si lola Alfongga mo po ang nagbulong

ALFIE LORENZO
APRIL 13, 2012 FRIDAY

The latest and hottest news today:

GMA-7 was finally sold to TV5 for P48B!

How true? Abangan ang susunod na pakulo to confirm how MVP is now the richest man in the Philippines!

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/a...showbiz_al.htm

[jingdalagan]

sino namang angel ang nagbulong sa iyo nyan?

napag-usapan nga rin yan sa Kapuso thread.

sa akin lang naman, wala akong nakikitang mali. it's about raising capital anyway.

jingdalagan

DeeCenDee

[Hapee_Angel]

Networks shakedown rocks industry
By: Contributor, Winston A. Marbella
Philippine Daily Inquirer
April 26, 2012


TV5’s Manuel V. Pangilinan

MEDIA mogul Manuel V. Pangilinan, chairman of the telecommunications conglomerate PLDT/Smart/Sun, wants to acquire control of television network GMA 7.

A formal price offer still has to be worked out to bridge a P15-billion gap to swing the deal, but all major industry indicators—dropping profits, shifting consumer markets, rising costs, expensive new technology and cut-throat competition—are conspiring to make the buyout of GMA 7 inevitable, market analysts say.

“The major and controlling shareholders have not received a price that is acceptable to them,” GMA Network president Gilberto Duavit Jr. said in a statement responding to media reports. “That is not to say that GMA 7 will not be sold, but at the moment we are presently not pursuing serious negotiations with the PLDT group because they have not offered us a price that is acceptable to our shareholders,” Duavit said.

For weeks, the industry has been abuzz with reports that acquisition talks were under way. But price matters most, and one has to read the nuanced signals correctly.

Industry indicators

Major indicators foreshadow a shakedown in the television industry.

Technology is changing to high-definition, requiring massive capital input. Industry profits are shrinking and the rules of the game are changing.

Two major players—ABS-CBN and GMA 7—are suffering double-digit percentage reductions in profits. Advertisers are cutting back on spending.

An aggressive new kid on the block, TV 5, is challenging industry rules and rewriting tried-and-tested formulas.

Channel 5 is on the prowl for an acquisition. And there is a company ready to sell for the right price.

Purported asking price

Last week, a source in Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd., of which Pangilinan is CEO and Managing Director, said that the “asking price” for GMA 7 was between P45 billion and P51 billion—an amount the Pangilinan group was said to be willing to pay.

But latest reports said the three families controlling GMA 7 want P60 billion for the company.

The closing price of GMA 7 at the Philippine Stock Exchange on April 25 was P9.36. A 100-percent stake in GMA 7 would cost over P31 billion, but it is customary for buyers to pay a premium for acquisitions that give them control of their targeted companies.

At P45 billion, Pangilinan is willing to pay a premium of about 48 percent to GMA Network’s present market capitalization, but the controlling shareholders seek a premium of 94 percent.

The Pangilinan group has investments in several media companies and full ownership of television network TV 5. The PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund, through its subsidiary Media Quest Holdings, also has minority interests in print media: BusinessWorld, Philippine Star and the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The right price


KAPUSO chair and CEO Felipe L. Gozon

GMA-7 is controlled by the Duavit, Gozon and Jimenez families. The Gozon group, represented by GMA chairman Felipe L. Gozon, had admitted in the past that the company could be sold for “the right price.”

The sale of GMA-7 to the PLDT group nearly happened in 2001 with the signing of a memorandum of understanding. Duavit said agreements had been reached on the price for a majority stake of the firm, but the deal fell through because of issues encountered by the buyer that were not related to price.

But conditions could be right this time around.

Income drop

GMA 7 recently announced that its 2011 net income plummeted 39 % to P1.72 billion from P2.82 billion in 2010, as advertisers cut back and operating costs went up.

“Our net income took a beating,” admitted Ronaldo P. Mastrili, GMA 7 vice president of finance. “We experienced the lowest net income level of the past 5 years in the 4th quarter of 2011.”

Advertising revenue dropped 9 percent to P13.08 billion, while operating costs junped 8 percent as GMA launched GMA News TV to blunt competitive inroads in news.

Ratings game

Duavit said competitive pressures drove costs up:

“The spending was driven by the desire to win in the national ratings last year.”

GMA 7 cited a 3.1-point lead in household audience share over rival ABS-CBN and an 18.6-point lead over newcomer TV 5, according to media ratings firm Nielsen TV Audience Measurement.

Duavit rejected suggestions to emulate TV 5 by pirating big talent to attract more advertisers. “The norm was that the stars created the program and the network was measured in terms of who its stars were,” he said.

“We prefer to see it the other way around—that it’s the programs that make the stars and the network that creates the programs and the opportunities,” he said.

Spending cuts

GMA-7 plans to reduce programming costs and trim capital expenditure from nearly P896 million in 2011 to P650 million for 2012.

Two new stations are planned in the Ilocos and Bicol regions. The rest of the funds will be to upgrade towards high definition programming.

Despite posting lower profits, rival ABS-CBN has set a higher budget for expansion this year to diversify its revenue stream and ensure future growth.

Last week, company officials reported that profits fell nearly a quarter in 2011, from a net of P3 billion in 2010 to P2.4 billion in 2011, following an industry-wide drop in earnings from massive spending cuts by big advertisers.

A one-time gain from the sale of a stake in Sky Cable Corp., coupled with the company’s more diversified revenue stream helped save ABS-CBN from a worse decline, officials said.

Uncertain outlook

The outlook for 2012, however, remains uncertain after an unusually erratic first three months of the year.

“In January ad minutes went down by double digits. In February we saw some signs of recovery, but last March we had an all-time high for that month,” ABS-CBN chief financial officer Ron Valdueza told reporters. “We hope to sustain this momentum the rest of the year.”

Valdueza said the company might benefit from the unofficial start of the midterm campaign season by the fourth quarter of this year, “but it probably wouldn’t be that much.”

He said the group’s capital expenditure would increase by at least 19 percent this year to P5 billion, with the bulk to be invested in the Internet and cable television business of its subsidiary, SkyCable.

Diversifying

To diversify its revenue stream, ABS-CBN last year launched a total of 16 films, six of which grossed more than P100 million each to reach “blockbuster” status by Philippine standards. “Praybeyt Benjamin” grossed P342 million, making it the country’s biggest-selling movie.

This year the government plans to order television industry players to start broadcasting on digital frequencies and replace the existing inefficient and unreliable analog technology.

The National Telecommunications Commission is choosing between Japan’s Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting and the second-generation Digital Video Broadcasting platform from Europe.

This seismic shift in the industry’s business methods will benefit the big players at the expense of the smaller ones. It looks prudent for GMA-7 to start preparing while the price is right.


GMA 7’s Gilberto Duavit Jr.

[Hapee_Angel]

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
MVP: P60 BILLION TAG PRICE NG GMA NOT WORTH IT!
Posted by network war



Too expensive. That's how TV5 chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan described the P60 billion price tag sought for rival GMA Network Inc.

"Sobrang mahal yun," Pangilinan said when asked if his group would shell out double GMA Network's market value for full ownership of the broadcast company.

At the close of trading on Monday, listed GMA Network shares were priced at P9.40 each, valuing the company at P31.929 billion.
Pangilinan was supposed to have offered P45 billion for GMA Network, but the three families controlling the broadcast firm - the Duavits, Gozons, and Jimenezes - would sell for at least P60 billion.
Gilberto Duavit Jr., GMA Network president, said in a press release that they "are presently not in serious negotiations with the PLDT group as we have not yet received an offer price that is acceptable to us."

Pangilinan chairs Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., whose unit MediaQuest Holdings owns TV5. InterAksyon.com is the online news portal of TV5.

SOURCE

http://www.interaksyon.com/article/3...xpensive---mvp

[Hapee_Angel]

Thursday, April 26, 2012
GMA-7 BECOMING A MOVIE CHANNEL? QUALITY OF SHOWS ON A DECLINE!
Posted by network war



With press releases left and right claiming their national supremacy in the ratings game, one could wonder why an article like this is being written to portray GMA Network as declining.

Business-wise, the Kapuso network is sound. It is earning. And it is not in debt.

One is the slow and low content development. The network, amid its claim of being the top rating network, lags behind ABS-CBN in the number of shows in development, and the number of locally-produced shows currently being aired.

Although both networks utilized movie blocks to create stable, eye-ball drawing, and revenue-generating blocks with cost effeciency, GMA has in a way went overboard. In fact, one could wonder if the network executives are turning the network into a movie channel to compete not with ABS-CBN, but with Cinema One.

Apart from its 'Kapuso Movie Festival' airing in the mornings from Mondays to Sundays, GMA has also cancelled most of its shows in its Sunday block, and allowed block of 3 movies back-to-back-to-back.

I say the network is declining as most of its recent offerings were either conceptually half-baked, and unappealing to advertisers. Instead of coming up it usual fare of innovative programs, tho high-edgy new platforms which stood apart from ABS-CBN's usual formulaic shows, GMA opted for a quick relief --- the movie blocks.

How come a network boasting leadership is getting swamped with movie blocks, if not Korean imports who are not even Proudly Pinoy made?

The answer is on the business perspective. But we are not businessmen.

We are TV viewers. We only want shows that will entertain us, but not in a way annoy us on how ill-made they are.

Gone are the days that GMA Network surprises us viewers with its out-of-the-box offerings. Gone are the days of its entertaining all-original reality programs and ultra-funny sitcoms.

All the network could come up is to develop sitcoms to be top-billed by its biggest stars, not the usual comic stars we have learned to love. Where are the shows like 'Bahay Mo Ba 'To?' ? They even cancelled its one and only sitcom that is genuinely funny and watchable --- I'm looking at you 'Pepito Manaloto'.

But a Kapuso fan could could get a glimpse of hope, as new shows are now being announced. Two sitcoms are already being reported on development, the genre that is deemed a strength of GMA. Also one good note is the network strengthening its already strong daytime block, anchored by blocktimer 'Eat Bulaga' and a string of traditional soap operas which are tried and tested audience drawers.

I just hope that GMA would soon commit to develop new shows, which are groundbreaking and innovative. Refrain from following the footsteps of ABS-CBN. Why follow when you claim to be the industry leader? Right?

SOURCE

http://www.pinoytvcritic.com/2012/04...n-decline.html

[Hapee_Angel]

Friday, April 27, 2012
GMA EXECS ADMIT DESIRE TO BECOME NO.1 CAUSED THEM TO INCUR HUGE PROFIT DROPS IN 2011!
Posted by network war

GMA-7 is controlled by the Duavit, Gozon and Jimenez families. The Gozon group, represented by GMA chairman Felipe L. Gozon, had admitted in the past that the company could be sold for “the right price.”

The sale of GMA-7 to the PLDT group nearly happened in 2001 with the signing of a memorandum of understanding. Duavit said agreements had been reached on the price for a majority stake of the firm, but the deal fell through because of issues encountered by the buyer that were not related to price.

But conditions could be right this time around.


GMA 7 recently announced that its 2011 net income plummeted 39 % to P1.72 billion from P2.82 billion in 2010, as advertisers cut back and operating costs went up.

“Our net income took a beating,” admitted Ronaldo P. Mastrili, GMA 7 vice president of finance. “We experienced the lowest net income level of the past 5 years in the 4th quarter of 2011.”

Advertising revenue dropped 9 percent to P13.08 billion, while operating costs jumped 8 percent as GMA launched GMA News TV to blunt competitive inroads in news.

Ratings game

Duavit said competitive pressures drove costs up:

“The spending was driven by the desire to win in the national ratings last year.”

GMA 7 cited a 3.1-point lead in household audience share over rival ABS-CBN and an 18.6-point lead over newcomer TV 5, according to media ratings firm Nielsen TV Audience Measurement.

Duavit rejected suggestions to emulate TV 5 by pirating big talent to attract more advertisers. “The norm was that the stars created the program and the network was measured in terms of who its stars were,” he said.

“We prefer to see it the other way around—that it’s the programs that make the stars and the network that creates the programs and the opportunities,” he said.

Spending cuts

GMA-7 plans to reduce programming costs and trim capital expenditure from nearly P896 million in 2011 to P650 million for 2012.

Two new stations are planned in the Ilocos and Bicol regions. The rest of the funds will be to upgrade towards high definition programming.

Despite posting lower profits, rival ABS-CBN has set a higher budget for expansion this year to diversify its revenue stream and ensure future growth.

Last week, company officials reported that profits fell nearly a quarter in 2011, from a net of P3 billion in 2010 to P2.4 billion in 2011, following an industry-wide drop in earnings from massive spending cuts by big advertisers.

A one-time gain from the sale of a stake in Sky Cable Corp., coupled with the company’s more diversified revenue stream helped save ABS-CBN from a worse decline, officials said.

SOURCE

http://entertainment.inquirer.net/38...rocks-industry

[Hapee_Angel]

Friday, April 27, 2012
ANALYTS SAY ITS INEVITABLE FOR GMA NETWORK FALL!
Posted by network war

A formal price offer still has to be worked out to bridge a P15-billion gap to swing the deal, but all major industry indicators—dropping profits, shifting consumer markets, rising costs, expensive new technology and cut-throat competition—are conspiring to make the buyout of GMA 7 inevitable, market analysts say.

For weeks, the industry has been abuzz with reports that acquisition talks were under way. But price matters most, and one has to read the nuanced signals correctly.


Industry indicators

Major indicators foreshadow a shakedown on GMA Network and in the entire television industry,


Technology is changing to high-definition, requiring massive capital input. Industry profits are shrinking and the rules of the game are changing.

Two major players—ABS-CBN and GMA 7—are suffering double-digit percentage reductions in profits. Advertisers are cutting back on spending.

An aggressive new kid on the block, TV 5, is challenging industry rules and rewriting tried-and-tested formulas.

Channel 5 is on the prowl for an acquisition. And there is a company ready to sell for the right price.

Last week, a source in Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd., of which Pangilinan is CEO and Managing Director, said that the “asking price” for GMA 7 was between P45 billion and P51 billion—an amount the Pangilinan group was said to be willing to pay.

But latest reports said the three families controlling GMA 7 want P60 billion for the company.

The closing price of GMA 7 at the Philippine Stock Exchange on April 25 was P9.36. A 100-percent stake in GMA 7 would cost over P31 billion, but it is customary for buyers to pay a premium for acquisitions that give them control of their targeted companies.

At P45 billion, Pangilinan is willing to pay a premium of about 48 percent to GMA Network’s present market capitalization, but the controlling shareholders seek a premium of 94 percent.

The Pangilinan group has investments in several media companies and full ownership of television network TV 5. The PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund, through its subsidiary Media Quest Holdings, also has minority interests in print media: BusinessWorld, Philippine Star and the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

SOURCE

http://entertainment.inquirer.net/38...rocks-industry

[skywalker12]

Ganito na ang peg if ever matuloy ang sanib pwersa:

1. ABS-CBN
2. ABC-Se-Ve-N

[LAsimpleme]

Thursday, April 26, 2012
GMA-7 BECOMING A MOVIE CHANNEL? QUALITY OF SHOWS ON A DECLINE!
Posted by network war

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3OC300tbgU.../s320/gma1.jpg

With press releases left and right claiming their national supremacy in the ratings game, one could wonder why an article like this is being written to portray GMA Network as declining.

Business-wise, the Kapuso network is sound. It is earning. And it is not in debt.

One is the slow and low content development. The network, amid its claim of being the top rating network, lags behind ABS-CBN in the number of shows in development, and the number of locally-produced shows currently being aired.

Although both networks utilized movie blocks to create stable, eye-ball drawing, and revenue-generating blocks with cost effeciency, GMA has in a way went overboard. In fact, one could wonder if the network executives are turning the network into a movie channel to compete not with ABS-CBN, but with Cinema One.

Apart from its 'Kapuso Movie Festival' airing in the mornings from Mondays to Sundays, GMA has also cancelled most of its shows in its Sunday block, and allowed block of 3 movies back-to-back-to-back.

I say the network is declining as most of its recent offerings were either conceptually half-baked, and unappealing to advertisers. Instead of coming up it usual fare of innovative programs, tho high-edgy new platforms which stood apart from ABS-CBN's usual formulaic shows, GMA opted for a quick relief --- the movie blocks.

How come a network boasting leadership is getting swamped with movie blocks, if not Korean imports who are not even Proudly Pinoy made?

The answer is on the business perspective. But we are not businessmen.

We are TV viewers. We only want shows that will entertain us, but not in a way annoy us on how ill-made they are.

Gone are the days that GMA Network surprises us viewers with its out-of-the-box offerings. Gone are the days of its entertaining all-original reality programs and ultra-funny sitcoms.

All the network could come up is to develop sitcoms to be top-billed by its biggest stars, not the usual comic stars we have learned to love. Where are the shows like 'Bahay Mo Ba 'To?' ? They even cancelled its one and only sitcom that is genuinely funny and watchable --- I'm looking at you 'Pepito Manaloto'.

But a Kapuso fan could could get a glimpse of hope, as new shows are now being announced. Two sitcoms are already being reported on development, the genre that is deemed a strength of GMA. Also one good note is the network strengthening its already strong daytime block, anchored by blocktimer 'Eat Bulaga' and a string of traditional soap operas which are tried and tested audience drawers.

I just hope that GMA would soon commit to develop new shows, which are groundbreaking and innovative. Refrain from following the footsteps of ABS-CBN. Why follow when you claim to be the industry leader? Right?

SOURCE

http://www.pinoytvcritic.com/2012/04...n-decline.html

I couldn't agree more with this article. Napapansin ko ngang ang daming movie block naman ng GMA. And take note most of the movies they broadcast ay mula pa sa 70s-90s. Wala ba silang bagong mapalabas na pelikula sa TV nila like Asian or Hollywood films.

[DaGuardian]

Ganito na ang peg if ever matuloy ang sanib pwersa:

1. ABS-CBN
2. ABC-Se-Ve-N

i saw what you did there.

[Hapee_Angel]

JUN LALIN
APRIL 28, 2012 SATURDAY

‘Kaloka at pati pala ibang executives ng GMA 7 ay nalilito na rin sa naglalabasang balita na malapit nang mabili ni Mr. Manny V. Pangilinan ang Kapuso network.

Kahit kasi may denial na si Mr. Jimmy Duavit at nagsalita na ito na ‘not for sale’ ang GMA 7 ay nakakalito pa rin ang mga kumakalat na balita na ngayong Mayo ay magkakaroon na ng announcement na nabili na raw ni MVP ang share of stocks ng tatlong major stockholders ng Siyete.

Nang makasalubong ko noong isang araw ang isa sa executives ng Siyete ay nagtanong ito sa akin kung ano raw ba ang naririnig kong latest tungkol sa tsikang ‘yon dahil sila rin daw ay nalilito na sa mga naglalabasang balita.

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/a...showbiz_jl.htm

[Kikiyo_Mori]

Gash 31B lang fala ang market value. Kahit naman aketch di fafayag na doble the price ang peg. Aba matuwa na sila sa 50B noh. hakhakhak.

[immortal_badmike]

Gash 31B lang fala ang market value. Kahit naman aketch di fafayag na doble the price ang peg. Aba matuwa na sila sa 50B noh. hakhakhak.

echosera talaga yan si Gozon noh hellooo

[immortal_badmike]

pag pikon ang matandang PExer namemersonal talaga

hindi naman talaga akma ang presyuhan ni Gozon sa GMA noh isa lang naman ibig sabihin ni MVP ... "GMA is cheap." plain and simple.

[Rapha31]

Pwede naman niyang i-hire si Starczamora bilang assistant niya

[_Dyosa_Kirara_]

pataas presho pa ang GMA!! eh kung damit lang ang GMA sila yung damit sa divi!! na unknown ang brand eh!!

[MariaInes]

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
MVP: P60 BILLION TAG PRICE NG GMA NOT WORTH IT!
Posted by network war

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SmJPPGCCJV...+TV5+GMA-7.jpg

Too expensive. That's how TV5 chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan described the P60 billion price tag sought for rival GMA Network Inc.

"Sobrang mahal yun," Pangilinan said when asked if his group would shell out double GMA Network's market value for full ownership of the broadcast company.

At the close of trading on Monday, listed GMA Network shares were priced at P9.40 each, valuing the company at P31.929 billion.
Pangilinan was supposed to have offered P45 billion for GMA Network, but the three families controlling the broadcast firm - the Duavits, Gozons, and Jimenezes - would sell for at least P60 billion.
Gilberto Duavit Jr., GMA Network president, said in a press release that they "are presently not in serious negotiations with the PLDT group as we have not yet received an offer price that is acceptable to us."

Pangilinan chairs Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., whose unit MediaQuest Holdings owns TV5. InterAksyon.com is the online news portal of TV5.

SOURCE

http://www.interaksyon.com/article/3...xpensive---mvp

Mahal nga ang P60 bilyon kung ang halaga mo lang sa pamilihan ay P31 bilyon.
Kung anu't anupaman, nababagabag ako sa ginagawang ito ni G. Pangilinan. Baka gumising na lang ako isang araw, pag-aari na niya ang buong Pilipinas.
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