ABS-CBN Sports and Action Koronadal

ABS-CBN Sports and Action Koronadal was a regional television station associated with ABS-CBN Corporation and identified in the company’s station listings by the callsign DXAR-TV. It served Koronadal in South Cotabato, Philippines, as part of ABS-CBN’s network of owned or affiliated broadcast outlets outside Metro Manila. The station carried the ABS-CBN Sports and Action service, commonly abbreviated as S+A, whose programming focus included sports coverage, sports-related entertainment, news, and other television programming supplied through the ABS-CBN network. The station was not an independent national channel in its own right. Its identity combined the national S+A brand with a local terrestrial transmission facility serving the Koronadal market. This structure enabled viewers in the area to receive ABS-CBN’s sports-oriented programming through a regional broadcast outlet, while the station remained part of the wider ABS-CBN television and radio distribution system. ABS-CBN Sports and Action Koronadal became defunct during the regulatory and corporate disruption that ended ABS-CBN’s terrestrial broadcast operations in 2020. On May 5, 2020, the Philippine National Telecommunications Commission issued a cease-and-desist order after ABS-CBN’s legislative franchise expired. ABS-CBN subsequently failed to secure renewal of its franchise when its application was denied on July 10, 2020. The resulting shutdown ended the station’s operations along with the terrestrial operations of the S+A network and other ABS-CBN broadcast outlets. No separate current operating business, ownership structure, executive roster, or financial disclosures are established for the Koronadal station in the supplied reference material.

ABS-CBN Sports and Action Koronadal was a local television station in Koronadal, South Cotabato, operating under the ABS-CBN Sports and Action identity and listed with the callsign DXAR-TV. It formed part of ABS-CBN Corporation’s broader network of regional broadcast facilities. Rather than functioning as a standalone national media company, the station served as a local terrestrial outlet through which ABS-CBN’s S+A programming could reach audiences in and around Koronadal. The S+A service was positioned around sports and related programming. At the local-station level, this meant that the Koronadal outlet’s principal role was transmission and distribution: it connected the national or network-supplied channel schedule with viewers in its assigned regional market. The station therefore represented both the ABS-CBN corporate network and the S+A sports-oriented channel brand. Its operating history ended in 2020 amid the loss of ABS-CBN’s authority to continue terrestrial broadcasting. According to the supplied reference material, ABS-CBN ceased operations on May 5, 2020, after the National Telecommunications Commission issued a cease-and-desist order following the expiration of the company’s legislative franchise. The company’s franchise application was later denied on July 10, 2020. Those events brought the terrestrial S+A service and its regional stations, including the Koronadal outlet, to an end. The station is consequently a defunct broadcast brand and facility rather than an active local television operation. The available material does not establish a separate founding date, station-specific management roster, ownership transfer, or post-2020 successor service.

• 2020

  Terrestrial broadcast shutdown

  [1]List of ABS-CBN Corporation channels and stationsen.wikipedia.org

  ABS-CBN’s terrestrial operations, including the S+A station network associated with DXAR-TV in Koronadal, ceased on May 5 after the National Telecommunications Commission issued a cease-and-desist order following the expiration of ABS-CBN’s legislative franchise.

• 2020

  Franchise application denied

  [1]List of ABS-CBN Corporation channels and stationsen.wikipedia.org

  ABS-CBN’s franchise application was denied on July 10, preventing the company from restoring its former terrestrial broadcast network and leaving the Koronadal S+A station defunct.

A regional terrestrial television outlet extending ABS-CBN’s sports-focused S+A programming to viewers in Koronadal and surrounding areas.

• Sports television

  ABS-CBN Sports and Action programming

  The station’s principal offering was the ABS-CBN Sports and Action service, a sports-focused television brand distributed through ABS-CBN’s broadcast network. Its programming identity centered on sports coverage and sports-related television content. In Koronadal, the service was delivered through the local DXAR-TV terrestrial outlet rather than as an independent locally originated national channel.

• Television broadcasting

  DXAR-TV terrestrial service

  DXAR-TV was the local terrestrial television facility associated with ABS-CBN Sports and Action in Koronadal, South Cotabato. Its function was to transmit the S+A service to the regional market and extend ABS-CBN’s broadcast reach beyond its principal metropolitan operations. The service ended when ABS-CBN’s terrestrial operations were shut down in 2020.

• 2020

  Cessation of terrestrial broadcastingOther

  Background

  ABS-CBN’s legislative franchise expired, and the National Telecommunications Commission issued a cease-and-desist order affecting the company’s terrestrial broadcast operations.

  Action taken

  ABS-CBN stopped terrestrial broadcasting on May 5, 2020, ending the broadcast operation associated with the Koronadal S+A station.

  Aftermath

  The Koronadal station and the wider terrestrial S+A network became defunct. ABS-CBN’s franchise application was subsequently denied on July 10, 2020.

  Source

1. 1List of ABS-CBN Corporation channels and stationsen.wikipedia.org