Chinatown TV started out as a co-produced show with NBN 4 under the name AM@NBN in 2001. After one year, NBN’s change of station format into a sports channel prompted the show to move to IBC 13 and rebranded it as AM@IBC. It became Chinatown TV in 2012 and continued to air on IBC 13 ever since. It also started airing on NET 25 in December 2016.
Chinatown TV is the first and only 60-minute Filipino-Chinese lifestyle show on nationwide television. It has also organized several historic events such as the first ever Mr. and Ms. Chinatown, continuous years of nationwide telecast Chinese New Year Celebrations with ABS-CBN, event partnerships with global Chinese TV networks both in Mainland China and abroad, to name a few.
On its weekly show, the common topics of Chinatown TV include people, current events, sports, fashion, travel, food, health, learning basic Mandarin, and several other relevant issues to the Filipino-Chinese Community. The show airs every Saturday 9 -10 a.m. on NET 25 with replays every Sunday 10-11 a.m. and 11 p.m. on IBC 13.
Now on its 16th year, Chinatown TV is proud to deliver the first ever, trilingual Filipino-Chinese News Program, entitled CNTV (Chinese News TV). In its continued journey to promote shared Filipino-Chinese culture and keep the public informed on current events both in the Philippines and abroad, CNTV will be the first news program that will be regularly reporting Philippine headlines in Mandarin Chinese. It will also report International headlines using Mandarin as the principal language, with English and Filipino as supporting languages.
In October, CNTV will start airing every Monday to Friday at 7 to 7:30 a.m. on NET 25. The target audience is Filipino Chinese entrepreneurs, parents, and families who check the news every morning before they start their day.
As a 30-minute news show, the aim is to deliver concise and factual headlines both locally and globally, in a language and medium that addresses the Filipino-Chinese community. The news anchors are Chinatown TV hosts Candice Tan, Wesley Chua, Monica Shi, as well as Demry Cheng, Ricky Sun, Jin Chen, and Michelle Pan, to name a few.