Viva Entertainment

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Viva Entertainment Inc.

Type	Private
Traded as	Viva Communications Inc.
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	November 11, 1981
Founder	Vic del Rosario Jr.
Headquarters	Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Vic del Rosario Jr. (Chairman and CEO)
Products	Motion pictures, television shows, music albums
Website	www.vivaentertainment.ph

Viva Entertainment Inc. (also known as Viva Communications Inc.) is a Philippine media and entertainment company headquartered in Pasig City. It was founded in November 11, 1981.

Divisions[]

Viva Communications Inc. (VCI)[]

• Viva Films
  • Neo Films (1995-2003, liquidated)
  • Falcon Films
• Viva Television
  • Vintage Television
  • Mega Productions (co-owned by Sharon Cuneta and Vic del Rosario)
• Viva International Pictures (VIP)
• Viva Artists Agency (VAA)
• Viva Live (formerly Viva Concerts & Events)
• Halo Halo Radio (Ultimate Entertainment)
  • Halo Halo Radio 105.1 Cebu
  • Halo Halo Radio 97.1 Davao
  • Halo Halo Radio 103.5 Zamboanga
• Viva Interactive
• Viva Networks
  • PBO: Pinoy Box Office
  • Viva Cinema (formerly Viva TV, from STAR TV package)
  • TMC: Tagalized Movie Channel (co-owned with MVP Entertainment)
  • Sari-Sari Channel (joint venture with Cignal TV/TV5 Network Inc.)
  • K Movies Pinoy (defunct)
  • Joint venture with A+E Networks
    • History
    • H2
    • Fyi (defunct)
    • Crime & Investigation Network
    • Lifetime
  • Joint venture with Celestial Tiger Entertainment
    • Celestial Movies Pinoy
  • Joint venture with WakuWaku Japan Corporation
    • WakuWaku Japan
  • Globalgate Entertainment^[1]
• Digital Network
  • Oomph TV (multichannel network, social media agency)
  • Vivamax (over-the-top streaming service)
• Viva Video, Inc. (Viva Communications' home video subsidiary)
• Video City (liquidated)

Viva Music Group (VMG)[]

• Viva Records
• Vicor Music
• Verje Music Publishing (VMP)
• Harmony Music Publishing
• Amerasian Recording Studios
• O/C Records (affiliate; label owned by Kean Cipriano)

Viva Publishing Group[]

• Viva PSICOM Publishing Corporation (formerly PSICOM Publishing Inc., 50%) - joint venture with the Gabriel family
• Viva Starmometer Publishing Corporation (formerly Starmometer Publishing Company, 50%) - joint venture with Edsel Roy
• VRJ Books Publishing

Viva International Food & Restaurants[]

• Botejyu
• Paper Moon Cake Boutique
• Pepi Cubano
• Yogorino
• Wing Zone

Notable brands and subsidiaries[]

Viva Cable TV[]

Pinoy Box Office[]

Viva Cinema[]

Viva TV[]

Halo Halo Radio[]

Halo Halo Radio is a brand name for Viva's radio stations. It was launched as Oomph! Radio before the end of 2014 following the acquisition of Ultimate Entertainment and its FM stations (but spun-off its concert/theatrical production arm and became Ultimate Shows, which remained owned by the Manalang family), thus it is Viva's new venture into radio broadcasting. Its format playlist consisted of local and international songs.

In May 2016, Viva Live briefly dropped the Oomph! Radio brand and went to an independent branding among stations by adding 70s, 80s and 90s music to its playlist, despite retaining its format and the Ultimate Radio name. In July 2016, however, Viva Live brought back the Oomph! Radio brand and its Top 40/OPM format. In February 2017, the Oomph! Radio brand was dropped permanently due to management decision.

In May 2017, Oomph! Radio was relaunched as Halo Halo Radio, an all-OPM station. With this launch, Halo Halo Radio became the de facto provincial counterpart of Manila-based Pinas FM 95.5 (a radio station of Iglesia ni Cristo's for-profit broadcast arm Eagle Broadcasting Corporation), the country's first all OPM radio station.

Halo Halo Radio stations[]

Branding	Callsign	Frequency	Power (kW)	Coverage
Halo Halo 105.1 Cebu	DYUR	105.1 MHz	10 kW	Cebu City
Halo Halo 97.1 Davao	DXUR	97.1 MHz	10 kW	Davao City
Halo Halo 103.5 Zamboanga	DXUE	103.5 MHz	10 kW	Zamboanga City

Viva Video Inc.[]

Viva Video Inc. (formerly Viva Home Entertainment, doing business as Viva Video) is the exclusive distributor of video products for local and international studios in the Philippines. Viva Video, Inc. is the home video affiliate of Viva Entertainment, Inc.

Viva Video, Inc. is the home video and DVD distribution arm of Viva Entertainment with the exclusive distributor of video products including films and television series.

The company releases titles from the film and television library of VIVA Films, as well as programs from other Viva Entertainment companies. Currently, they also serve as the distributor for television and/or movie product licensed by Nickeloedeon, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Cartoon Network, Big Idea Productions (makers of VeggieTales DVDs), Turner Entertainment Co., Cookie Jar Entertainment (partnership with DIC Entertainment until 2008), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (since 2014, distribution of Disney material had shifted to Magnavision Home Video), Skyfilms, Nine Network (makers of Hi-5 DVDs), Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Sesame Workshop (makers of Sesame Street), HIT Entertainment, and MGA Entertainment internationally for the Philippine market, and local products from VIVA Films, APT Entertainment, OctoArts Films, Regal Entertainment, Solar Entertainment, Studio5, FPJ Productions and Pioneer Films.

Viva Video holds licenses for:

Local

• Viva Films
• APT Entertainment
• OctoArts Films
• Regal Entertainment
• Solar Entertainment
• Studio5
• FPJ Productions
• Pioneer Films
• KP Entertainment Philippines

International

• Cookie Jar Entertainment (formerly Cinar, Filmfair and DIC Entertainment)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (including Touchstone Home Entertainment)
• MGM Home Entertainment, phased out in 2005 as MGM Holdings
• ABC
• MGA Entertainment
• Summit Entertainment
• Lionsgate Home Entertainment
• Syndicate Films
• Emperor Motion Pictures
• Lakeshore Entertainment
• Mandate Pictures
• Icon Entertainment
• Bauer Martinez
• Inferno Distribution
• Cineclick Asia
• Cinema Service
• Miro Vision
• Skyfilms (distribution duties are also shared by Star Home Video)
• Nick Jr.
• Nickelodeon
• Nine Network (makers of Hi-5 DVDs for the Philippine market)
• HIT Entertainment
• Big Idea Productions (makers of ‘’VeggieTales’’ DVDs for the Philippine market)
• Sesame Workshop (makers of Sesame Street DVDs for the Philippine market)
• Cartoon Network
• Turner Entertainment
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment
• Playboy Home Entertainment

Viva Video City[]

Viva Video City was the video retail affiliate of Viva Video, the home video unit of Viva Entertainment, Inc. As of 2015, all of the stores in the country are closed.

Viva-Psicom Publishing[]

Viva PSICOM Publishing Corporation (Viva PSICOM) is a publishing company jointly owned by Viva Entertainment and the Gabriel family. It was founded in 1990 by Arnel Jose Gabriel as a small desktop publisher, which later evolved into publishing the first Filipino wholly owned trade newspaper, the now-defunct Philippine IT Update.

The company, then known as PSICOM, rose to fame through the Diary ng Panget tetralogy authored by HaveYouSeenThisGirL.

In August 2013, Viva Entertainment acquired 50% of the company stocks, and it was later renamed as Viva-Psicom.

Products[]

Magazines[]

• OtakuZine
• Otaku Asia
• OtakuZine Anime Recommendation
• FH&S
• The GOLD Magazine
• Bare

Horror[]

• True Philippine Ghost Stories (Some stories were later adapted as episodes of GMA Network's Wag Kukurap.)
• Haunted Philippines (Some stories were later adapted as episodes of GMA Network's Wag Kukurap.)
• Pinoy Tales of Terror

Books by well-known authors[]

• Ramon Bautista (later moved to ABS-CBN Publishing)
• Tado
• Papa Dan of Barangay LS 97.1
• Papa Dudut of Barangay LS 97.1

Wattpad[]

• HaveYouSeenThisGirL
  • Diary ng Panget
  • Voiceless
  • She Died
  • That Girl
• Aly Almario
  • My Prince
  • He's a Kidnapper
  • The Other Side
  • Reaching You
• Alesana Marie
  • Talk Back and You're Dead
• Marcelo Santos III
  • Para sa Hopeless Romantic (republished)
  • Para sa Broken-Hearted
  • Mahal mo Siya, Mahal Ka Ba?

Japanese manga[]

• Hajime Isayama
  • Attack on Titan
• Mashima Hiro
  • Fairy Tail

Other genres[]

• Viva PSICOM Dark Series
• Kilig Republic
• GOLD Manga Series

References[]

External links[]

• Official homepage
• Forum Page
• Viva TV on Satellite TV in the United States
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Twitter
• Instagram