Whois & Analysis for abs-cbn.com

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean.

It consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City, both part of Metro Manila.

Bounded by the South China Sea on the west, the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest, the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Vietnam to the west, Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south.

ABS-CBN Corporation, commonly known as ABS-CBN, is a Filipino media and entertainment group based in Quezon City.

It is the Philippines' largest entertainment and media conglomerate in terms of revenue, operating income, net income, assets, equity, market capitalization, and number of employees.

ABS-CBN was formed by the merger of Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network.

It was first founded in 1946 by Jewish American electronics engineer James Lindenberg and Judge Antonio Quirino (the brother of the sixth Philippine President Elpidio Quirino) as Bolinao Electronics Corporation (BEC).

BEC would in turn become Alto Broadcasting System or ABS.

Chronicle Broadcasting Network, on the other hand, was founded in 1952 by newspaper mogul Don Eugenio Lopez, Sr.

and his brother Fernando Lopez (the Philippine Vice President for three terms from 1949 to 1953 and 1965 to 1973).

The two companies were merged and incorporated as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation on February 1, 1967, shortened to simply ABS-CBN Corporation in 2010 to reflect the company's diversification.

The common shares of ABS-CBN was first traded on the Philippine Stock Exchange in July 1992 under the ticker symbol ABS.