Division of: TV5 Parent: TV5 | Headquarters: Mandaluyong City | |
Key people: Patricia Bermudez-Hizon (Head, Sports5)
Vitto Lazatin (Vice-president, Sports5) Slogan: Sports you watch, sports that matter. Sister networks: TV5
AksyonTV
Catsup
AKTV (2011-2013)
Hyper
PBA Rush | ||
TV5 Sports or Sports5 (formerly ABC Sports from 2004 to 2008) is a division of TV5, which airs many of the sports events in the Philippines. The world's second oldest professional basketball league, Philippine Basketball Association, was its flagship program since it acquired the television rights from 2004 to 2008 and from 2011.
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It is headed by veteran sportscaster Patricia Bermudez-Hizon, while former Solar Sports personality Vitto Lazatin is the vice-president.
History
Sports5 is the Sports division arm of TV5 Network Inc. In 2011, TV5 and IBC, inked a blocktime deal which subsequently became AKTV. It was launched on May 5, 2011 through a marathon held at the Mall Of Asia Grounds in Pasay City.
From then on, Sports5 obtained rights to air major sporting leagues and events like the Philippine Basketball Association, United Football League and the NCAA (returned to ABS-CBN Sports in 2015).
Until its flagship primetime sports block's closure in 2013 due to high blocktime costs and poor ratings, most of its programs are aired on IBC through its programming block AKTV. From June 2013 onwards, most of its sports coverages are shown on TV5, AksyonTV and Hyper. It is headquartered at TV5 Media Center, Reliance cor. Sheridan sts., Mandaluyong City.
Sports5 is the official TV partner of the Olympic Games in the Philippines from 2014 to 2016. In 2016, Sports5 acquired the Philippine broadcast rights (from ABS-CBN Sports) to air Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on free TV and satellite.