VGC Affiliates Association

The VGC Affiliates Association is an organization jointly owned by the owners of primary and secondary affiliates of the FV+ network. It is the group structure of the network's affiliation system.
== History ==
In 1956, in a mission by VGC to expand coverage after opened their second station DWVP-TV in Angeles City, Pampanga (later a WB affiliate in 1995; now a PlayStation TV affiliate), they opened the VGC Affiliation Program and the VAA to support it.
The association was initially under an invite-only basis, meaning only VGC can reach out and pick stations, and was only giving primary affiliations, which continued for 12 years after 1958, the year VGC removed the invite policy.
Their first member was General Teleradio (now RKO General), which put upstart DWVC-TV in Dagupan and the construction permit for DWOR-TV in Laoag, which would launch 2 years later, as primary VGC affiliates. About 2 months later, VGC picked Westinghouse Broadcasting, owner of a CBS affiliate in VGC's home area of the Manila region, who picked NBC affiliates DWBZ-TV in Baguio and DXKM-TV in Davao and ABC affiliate DWJZ-TV in Batangas as affiliates. It later expanded in 1963, when they chose Central Luzon Newspaper Company which picked DZII-TV in Santiago City, which is outside Central's newspaper coverage, as an affiliate.
Soon after in 1965, VGC formally allowed Secondary Membership, which meant secondary VGC affiliates were now possible. VGC first signed with Dela Vera Broadcasting to make independent station (now PSTV O&O) DXDV-TV in Davao to be the backup affiliate, airing programs preempted by DXKM for extensive coverage.
In 1970, VGC signed a deal with the Philippine Television Company, the eventual founder of VGC's major competitor, to sign on independent DPHI-TV in Quezon City (part of the Manila market) as a backup affiliate to network flagship DZVC-TV.
=== Shakeups ===
==== Martial Law shakeup ====
In 1972, all VGC affiliates went off the air shortly after the Martial Law announcement. A shakeup happened to the Cagayan Valley, then-served by Santiago City's DZII. It's then-owner Central Newspapers (now Central Communications) sold the station to local newspaper The Itawis Times. It would later be sold to Brazilian entrepeneur and television host Silvio Santos when the newspaper was consumated by VGC. Soon after the 1972 sale, the station left the VGC network and they moved to DWSV-TV (then on channel 7; now on channel 9). All other stations that remained with the network returned to the air in October.
==== 1980 shakeup in Davao ====
Westinghouse sold DXKM to the Tribune Company. Tribune has always been VGC's #1 rival in the United States in the newspaper industry, and the company disaffiliated the station from the network in 1980, turning its secondary NBC affiliation to primary.
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