DWSS-TV

DWSS-TV, digital channel 26, virtual channel 11, is a PBS member station licensed to Parañaque City and serves the Metro Manila television market. It is owned by StarMedia.
== History ==
===Foundation of StarMedia===
StarMedia was founded in New Donk City in the Americas by American media expert Andy Johnson. When the FCC released the bid for that area's channel 43 license, Johnson immediately went into the bid. Although being a media expert, the FCC did not accept his bid for reason related to the financial status of his company. That license would be awarded to the Righi Broadcasting Company and became RBC owned-and-operated station (now Heroes & Icons affiliate) WNDR.
He later transferred his company to the Philippines after deciding to live with his wife Olivia (née Rubio). The Radio Control Office (RCO), a forerunner of the NTC, gave the Johnson couple the license for channel 11.
Then as now, non-commercial licenses don't exist in the Philippines. But Johnson tried to program it as an educational/non-commercial independent, a plan originally made for his former New Donk City bidding station. Later in 1964, Johnson's new station was assigned the call letters DWSS-TV, and signed on in 1965 as a member station of the National Educational Television network.
When NET folded into PBS in 1970, DWSS became a PBS member.
Some DWSS local programming were produced by VGC, which was criticized by the Johnson family in 1999 for the fall campaign for VGC's television network for being too close to public, non-commercial programming.
== Programs ==
List of programs broadcast by DWSS/PBS Philippines
== Gallery ==
DWSS11.png|PBS Kids logo (2013–present)
05875FCC-125E-42E1-9A06-1B3FB0B1349E.png|PBS Kids Logo (secondary, 2013–present)
bandicam 2019-07-21 09-53-06-386.jpg|PBS Kids Channel bumper for individual PBS Member Stations from late 2016
== Trivia ==
* DWSS' PBS Kids logo is only using a boy named Dash.
Category:Philippines
Category:Public Broadcasters
Category:Channel 11
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1999
Category:Media Companies established in 1999
Category:1999
Category:PBS member stations
Category:Parañaque
Category:Metro Manila