People's Television Network (Filipino: Pambansang TV;[2] abbreviated PTV) is the flagship state broadcaster owned by the Government of the Philippines.

Founded in 1974, PTV is the main brand of People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI), one of the attached agencies under the Presidential Communications Office (PCO).

Its head office, studios and transmitter were located at Broadcast Complex, Visayas Avenue, Barangay Vasra, Diliman, Quezon City.

As a government-run station, PTV received funding from the General Appropriations Act (Annual National Budget) and sales from blocktimers and advertisers, among others.

It was first headquartered in the Solana Building in Intramuros, Manila and later relocated to the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Bohol Avenue, Quezon City.

Broadcasters Tina Monzon-Palma and Jose Mari Velez were tapped by President Corazon Aquino to handle the newly rebranded station for a few months, before Palma and Vélez returned to GMA 7.

Shortly after he took over the mantle of government in June 1992, President Fidel V. Ramos appointed PTV Network's first board of directors.

With its 32 provincial stations across the country, the network has extended its reach and coverage to approximately 85 percent of the television viewing public nationwide.

On July 16, 2001, under the new management appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, PTNI adopted the new image and name National Broadcasting Network (NBN) carrying a new slogan "One People.

[11][12] PTV has started their modernization program since 2012, including the acquisition of studio technical equipment, cameras, vehicles and high-powered transmitter for the main office in Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, together with few regional offices, included in their plans is the rehabilitation of PTV stations in Naga, Baguio, Iloilo, Cebu, Zamboanga, Cotabato, Calbayog, Tacloban, Pagadian, Davao and Dumaguete.

[13][14] Despite being operated with little or no budget, the new PTV had still managed to cover the biggest events in the country including the 2013 National and Local Elections, 2013 Central Visayas earthquake, Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana), the visits of US President Barack Obama and Pope Francis, the APEC Philippines 2015.

In 2014, the partnership between the two was revived with an all new morning news program, RadyoBisyon, which is also simulcast on IBC-13 and heard in Radyo ng Bayan stations nationwide, broadcasting from its own studios and the RnB radio booth.

Under then-Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar, the network was set to implement a revitalization plan to improve the station's programming and expand its nationwide presence, to be at par with state-media outfits ARD & ZDF of Germany, BBC of United Kingdom, NHK of Japan, KBS and EBS of South Korea, PBS of the United States of America, CBC of Canada and ABC Australia.

Andanar also announced the appointment of Dino Antonio C. Apolonio, former vice president for Production Engineering of TV5 as the incoming Network General Manager.

The network is all set to roll-out its digital terrestrial television service initially on nine locations in the Philippines by introducing DTT transmitters and compression multiplexers.

[34] Finally, its official logo, which represents the elements of the Philippine flag and also previewed at the inauguration of its very own Cordillera hub, was launched upon the station's sign-on on June 28, 2017.

[35][36][37] On June 3, 2017, PTV began simulcasting CGTN programs, part of its staff having visited its facilities earlier in the year as part of a number of training visits to state and private TV channels worldwide, and later started their full-blown broadcast in 1080i Full HD on their Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcast on April 18, 2018.

A year since the network introduced their new logo, the new-look PTV was relaunched to the public in a trade launch on July 12, 2018, at the Marquis Events Place, Taguig.

During the trade launch, the network showcased their technological achievements since the new administration took over the network's operations in 2016, from upgrading the technical and transmission equipment into HD and Digital TV–ready to their social media presence and their revitalized program line-up from news & public affairs programs, local newscasts from Cordillera and Davao, documentaries, sports, entertainment, and public service shows co-produced by the network and their partner government agencies, along with upcoming local and foreign programs, including those from China, Japan, South Korea and the ASEAN Region.

[38] PTV went on a major visual facelift with the airing of their new Station ID entitled "Kasama Mo, Para sa Bayan" (lit.

The proposed PBC will also launch the country's first Specialty channels for the Muslim minority (Salaam TV) and the Lumad peoples of the south.

On June 14, 2024, the Presidential Communications Group announced the appointment of Antonio Baltazar "Toby" Nebrida Jr., a former news anchor as acting General Manager replacing Ana Puod.

The network serves as the main television broadcast arm of the government of the Republic of the Philippines and it is part of the Office of the Press Secretary.