Eastman Media

Eastman Media was a broadcasting company owned by Jose Lintag.
== History ==
Eastman started out in 1931. They owned KEAS (now DWAS). The owner of Eastman that time were the Lintag family. It was headquartered in their house on Quezon City. They also launched KPRS (now DZPR) in their hometown Pampanga.
During World War II, Japanese took over the station (together with KZRH, now DZRH) and KEAS became PIRO (Philippine Radio) for their propaganda use.
After the Philippine independence, they renamed KEAS to DWAS, and KPRS to DZPR. On 1949, with the help of RCA, they tested two stations on VHF and UHF frequencies, one is D2EAS and D8EAS (which closed down in 1950, now home of DNBC-TV).
Eastman then focused on buying/owning television stations all over the Philippines. They made a station in Pampanga (DWEM-TV, now DWPZ) and on other parts of the Philippines.
On 1980, brothers Juan and Nathan were finding a seller for their company/network that would be launched a month later. However, with only few money, they were not abld establish it. Then, they found Eastman Media which is willing to buy the company/network. They bought it for 10 million pesos.
After the launch, the independent stations went to their subsidiary (Philippine Media Group).
On 1982, Eastman acquired Surigao Broadcasting Company, which owns DXPW-TV (that will be the future PhiNet station on 1990).
On 1999, they filed a chapter 11 bankruptcy. Trinome bought the assets of Eastman including PhiNet.
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