It was acquired by Philippine media giant Viva Entertainment in late 1999.

It was also famed for its weekly boxing show called Blow by Blow during the 1990s, which began the popularity of professional boxer eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.

Its first major program was the coverage of the Philippine Basketball Association games in 1982.

[1] The games were initially aired at City2 Television from 1982 to 1983, then transferred to the Maharlika Broadcasting System in 1984.

Aside from producing sports coverages, Vintage Television had acquired foreign entertainment programming such as Japanese tokusatsu and anime series.