Type | Broadcast television network |
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Country | Philippines |
Broadcast area | Mega Manila |
Headquarters | UNTV Broadcast Center, 907 EDSA, Philam Homes, Quezon City, Philippines ADD Convention Center, Sampaloc, Apalit, Pampanga, Philippines |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Tagalog, English, Portuguese, Spanish |
Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Members Church of God International |
Parent | UNTV News and Rescue (PBC and BMPI) |
Key people | Eli Soriano Daniel Razon |
Sister channels | |
History | |
Founded | 2014 as ADDTV (test broadcast) |
Launched | September 3, 2017 |
Founder | Members Church of God International |
Former names | Ang Dating Daan Television (2014–2017) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital terrestrial television | Channel 55.03 |
Streaming media | |
Truth Channel Live Stream | YouTube |
Truth Channel (formerly known as Ang Dating Daan Television or ADDTV) is a Philippine religious television network. It is the flagship television network of the Members Church of God International (MCGI), together with UNTV News and Rescue, the network's carrier on free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT). It broadcasts 24 hours a day on Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Channel 38 (617.143 MHz) in Metro and Mega Manila, Rizal, Bulacan, Pampanga, Laguna, Cavite and some parts of Tarlac.
Its studios in the Philippines are located at the UNTV Building, 907 Brgy. Philam, EDSA Quezon City and at the ADD Convention Center, Brgy. Sampaloc, MacArthur Highway Apalit, Pampanga. It also has a broadcast facility in South America, a garage transformed into a makeshift studio in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, shared with MCGI's own international TV channels TV Verdade, TV La Verdad and The Truth Channel.[1]
Its digital transmitter is located at Emerald Hills, Sumulong Highway in Antipolo, Rizal. The 16-storey UNTV Broadcast Center along EDSA Philam is currently under construction to serve as its new headquarters by 2018, and it operates 24-hours a day, with the exception of Mondays, where the channel is offline from midnight to 4 am.
Truth Channel is known for its broadcast of Itanong mo kay Soriano, a talk show in Bible Exposition format popularized by Ang Dating Daan (ADD), the longest-running religious program in the Philippines, hosted by international radio and television evangelist Bro. Eli Soriano, together with broadcast journalist UNTV-BMPI CEO, Kuya Daniel Razon.
The segment has spontaneous question and answer format where live audience ask questions to the host. The religious program airs in four languages namely Filipino, English, Portuguese and Spanish with English subtitles.