GMA Pinoy TV

GMA Pinoy TV, is a Filipino Channel incorporated in February 2004 by GMA Network and its subsidiaries, GMA International & GMA Worldwide; it was launched in 2005, primarily in Japan and USA, as a 24-hour international Filipino television station. The channel is targeted towards overseas Filipinos and their families in the Philippines. The network airs shows produced by GMA Network. Drawing on programming from its flagship station in the Philippines, the network's programs can be seen in the United States (including Hawaii and Alaska), Japan, Guam, Saipan, Papua New Guinea, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, the Middle East, North Africa, Hong Kong, and Europe.

Background

Start of GMA Pinoy TV (2004–2005)

GMA Pinoy TV was first launched in Japan in March 2005. It was later launched in several parts of the United States in the same year, such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and the states of the East Coast.

The official GMA Pinoy TV launch in America happened in San Francisco on 23 July 2005 and was aired on SOP the following Sunday, 31 July 2005. The event was attended by thousands of Filipinos eager to see once again the stars of GMA for whom they have not seen for so long. The channel later spread out in the entire country of the US by August 2005. Since then GMA Pinoy TV started to reach out to more countries globally.

Pinoy

Pinoy is an informal demonym referring to some of the Filipino people in the Philippines and overseas Filipinos around the world.

An unspecified number of Filipinos refer to themselves as Pinoy or sometimes the feminine Pinay. The word is formed by taking the last four letters of Filipino and adding the diminutive suffix -y in the Tagalog language (the suffix is commonly used in Filipino nicknames: "Ninoy" or "Noynoy" for Benigno (Jr. and III respectively), "Totoy" for Augusto, etc.). Pinoy was used for self-identification by the first wave of Filipinos going to the continental United States before World War II and has been used both in a pejorative sense as well as a term of endearment similar to Chicano. Although Pinoy and Pinay are regarded as derogatory by some younger Filipino-Americans, the terms are widely used and gaining mainstream usage particularly among members of the masses.

Pinoy was created to differentiate the experiences of those immigrating to the United States but is now a slang term used to refer to all people of Filipino descent. Mainstream usages tend to center on entertainment (Pinoy Big Brother) and music (Pinoy Idol) which has played a significant role in developing national and cultural identity. Pinoy music impacted the socio-political climate of the 1970s and was employed by both Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and the People Power Revolution that overthrew his regime. As of 2016, the term is extensively used by the government of the Philippines itself, with apparently no derogatory connotations. It is more positive than the slang term "flip".

Épinoy

Épinoy is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A farming village situated 19 miles (30.6 km) southeast of Arras at the junction of the N43 and D21 roads.

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100% Pinoy

100% Pinoy is an informative news and public affairs television show in the Philippines aired every Thursday evenings by GMA Network. The show is currently hosted by Miriam Quiambao and Joaquin Valdes.

Final hosts

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