Nine Media News and Current Affairs
formerly known as Solar News and 9News
Nine Media News and Current Affairs (formerly known as Solar News and Current Affairs/Solar News and 9News and Current Affairs/9News) was the news and public affairs production arm and sole division of the Philippine media company Nine Media Corporation, which have been leased airtime from Southern Broadcasting Network (2011–2013) and Radio Philippines Network (2012–2024). The division supplies local news and content for Nine Media's television brands Talk TV, Solar News Channel, 9TV, and CNN Philippines. 9News stopped using this brand when the channel was launched as CNN Philippines on March 16, 2015, and the division was finally dissolved following the channel's closure on January 31, 2024, citing financial losses.
History
As Solar News (2012-2014)
After Solar Entertainment Corporation acquired 34 percent of Radio Philippines Network from the Philippine government as part of the RPN/IBC privatization in 2011, Solar TV launched Talk TV on March 2, 2011, and finally ventured into news at the end of 2011. On July 16, 2012, Solar News launched its first local newscasts, including Solar Network News, Solar Newsday, Solar Daybreak and Solar Nightly News. On October 30, 2012, two newscasts began airing on RPN (by-then affiliated with entertainment channel ETC) after it ceased its production of in-house flagship newscast RPN NewsWatch due to the retrenchment of the program's production team and other employees of the privatized network. On the same day, Talk TV rebranded as Solar News Channel on SBN UHF Channel 21 until November 30, 2013, when the channel transferred to RPN the following day.
As 9News (2014-2015)
In November 2013, San Miguel Corporation President and COO Ramon S. Ang acquired a majority stake in Solar Television Network as well as its stake on RPN. The Tiengs were the majority stockholders then of STVNI.
On August 20, 2014, Solar Entertainment Corporation chief Wilson Tieng announced that he had sold his entire share of Solar TV Network, Inc., including its 34% majority share of RPN, to Antonio Cabangon-Chua, owner of business newspaper BusinessMirror and Aliw Broadcasting Corporation. The Tiengs were losing money after they invested in RPN, and the group focused on the cable channels of the Solar Entertainment Corporation. To reflect the change of ownership, and upon announcement of the rebranding of Solar News Channel into 9TV by August 23, Solar News also rebranded to 9News, retaining its news and current affairs programming as 9TV expanded its weekend programming.
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