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Industry
  
Entertainment

Founded
  
1981

Area served
  
Nationwide

Type
  
Multimedia production corporation

Traded as
  
Viva Communications Inc.

Founder
  
Vicente "Vic" del Rosario, Jr.

Headquarters
  
Quezon City and Ortigas Center, Pasig City

Subsidiaries
  
Viva Films, Vicor Music Corporation, Viva Television

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Viva Entertainment Inc. (also known as Viva Communications Inc.) is a Filipino-owned entertainment company based in Quezon City and Pasig City, Philippines. It was founded in 1981 by Vicente "Vic" del Rosario, Jr.

Contents

Divisions

  • Viva Communications Inc. (VCI)
  • Viva Films
  • Neo Films
  • Falcon Films
  • Viva Television
  • Vintage Television
  • Mega Productions (co-owned by Sharon Cuneta and Vic del Rosario)
  • Viva International Pictures (VIP)
  • Viva Artists Agency
  • Viva Live (formerly Viva Concerts & Events)
  • Oomph! Radio (Ultimate Entertainment)
  • Oomph! Radio 105.1 Cebu
  • Oomph! Radio 97.1 Davao
  • Oomph! Radio 103.5 Zamboanga
  • Viva Interactive
  • Viva Cable TV
  • PBO: Pinoy Box Office
  • Viva TV (formerly Viva Cinema, from STAR TV package)
  • TMC: Tagalized Movie Channel (co-owned with MVP Entertainment)
  • Sari-Sari Channel (joint venture with Cignal Digital TV/TV5 Network Inc.)
  • Joint venture with A+E Networks
  • History
  • H2
  • Fyi
  • Crime & Investigation Network
  • Lifetime
  • Joint venture with Viacom
  • MTV Pinoy
  • Comedy Central
  • Joint venture with RTL-CBS Asia
  • RTL CBS Entertainment
  • RTL CBS Extreme
  • Joint venture with Celestial Tiger Entertainment
  • Celestial Movies Pinoy
  • Viva Sports
  • Viva Sports Management
  • Viva Video, Inc. (Viva Communications' home video subsidiary)
  • Viva Video City
  • Viva Music Group (VMG)
  • Viva Records
  • Vicor Music Philippines
  • Terno Recordings (co-owned with Toti Dalmacion)
  • Verje Music Publishing (VMP)
  • Harmony Music Publishing
  • Amerasian Recording Studios
  • 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
  • Cafe of Tokyo
  • Paper Moon Cake Boutique

    • Oomph! Radio

    Oomph! Radio is a brand name for Viva's radio stations. It was launched before the end of 2014 following the acquisition of Ultimate Entertainment and its FM stations, thus it is Viva's new venture into radio broadcasting.

    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, Turner Entertainment Co., Cookie Jar Entertainment (partnership with DIC Entertainment until 2008), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Skyfilms, Nine Network (makers of Hi-5 DVD's, 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, GMA Films, FPJ Productions, Pioneer Films and Star Cinema.

    Viva Video holds licenses for:

    Local

  • Viva Films
  • APT Entertainment
  • OctoArts Films
  • Regal Entertainment
  • GMA Films
  • Star Cinema
  • Solar Entertainment
  • Studio5
  • FPJ Productions
  • Pioneer Films

    • 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
  • Nick Jr.
  • Nickelodeon
  • Nine Network (makers of Hi-5 DVD's for the Philippine market)
  • HIT Entertainment
  • Sesame Workshop (makers of Sesame Street DVD's for the Philippine market)
  • Cartoon Network
  • Turner Entertainment
  • Universal Studios Home Entertainment
  • Playboy Home Entertainment

    • Viva Video City

    Viva Video City is the video retail affiliate of Viva Video, the home video unit of Viva Entertainment, Inc.

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

    • Japanese manga

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

    • References

    Viva Entertainment Wikipedia
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