Solar Entertainment

Solar Entertainment Corporation
Solar Entertainment
Company typePrivate
IndustryMass media
FoundedJanuary 3, 1976 (1976-01-03) (as a TV movie company)
July 15, 1988 (1988-07-15) (as a film distribution company)
June 17, 2000 (2000-06-17) (as a cable television network)
January 1, 2008 (2008-01-01) (as a broadcast company)
Headquarters
Solar Century Tower, 100 Tordesillas St., Corner H.V. Dela Costa St., Salcedo Village, Makati, Metro Manila
,
Philippines
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Brands
  • Solar All Access
  • SolarFlix
  • Solar Learning
  • Solar Sports
  • Shop TV
  • Solar Pictures
  • Solar Scoop
  • Sinag Maynila Film Festival
  • BYD
  • Dynamex
  • Dynamo
  • Federated Distributors, Inc.
  • Gourdo's
  • KLG
  • KLG Foodservice
  • L. Meyerf Pharma, Inc.
  • Manila Goldcoast Development Corporation
  • Shacman
  • Solar Resources
  • Winning Touch International Marketing, Inc.
ServicesBroadcasting
Television
Cable television
TV Production
Motion Picture
Film distribution
Digital media
Streaming
Foodservice
Revenue 1.372 billion (FY 2015)
124.43 million (FY 2015)
OwnerSolar Films Inc. (38%)
Wilson Y. Tieng (21%)
William Y. Tieng (15%)
DivisionsFormer:
Nine Media News and Current Affairs (formerly Solar News) (2011—2024)
SubsidiariesCurrent:
ETC Productions
Southern Broadcasting Network
Solar Digital Media Holdings
Domestic Satellite Philippines, Inc.
Former:
Nine Media Corporation (formerly Solar Television Network, Inc.) (2011—2014)
Websitewww.solarentertainment.ph

Solar Entertainment Corporation (also known as Solar Entertainment, and simply known as Solar or SEC) is a Filipino media company based in Makati, Philippines. Founded and owned by the brothers Wilson, William and Willy Tieng, Solar Entertainment operates three digital free-to-air channels and one cable channel. Solar also owns a film distribution company (Solar Pictures) and defunct freemium digital television service (Easy TV Home).

Solar Entertainment owns and operates three digital TV channels: SolarFlix, Solar Sports, Solar Learning and Shop TV. It also owns television network Southern Broadcasting Network (SBN).

Solar Entertainment formerly owns Nine Media Corporation, a Solar's former broadcast media firm, which privatized Radio Philippines Network (RPN) in 2011. NMC and RPN are currently owned by ALC Group of Companies and operates RPTV, a free-to-air channel in partnership with TV5 Network.