DYCL-TV

DYCL-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Tacloban City, Philippines, airing programming from GMA Manila and GMA Cebu. Owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent, the station maintains a hybrid analog/digital transmitting facilities atop Mt. Canlais, Basper, Tacloban City.^[1][2][3]

In 1987, as part of the relaunch of GMA which reopened thirteen years before with its flagship station in Manila, DYCL-TV channel 7, the first television station in Eastern Visayas, was opened for soft launch and introduction a variant of the GMA Radio-Television Arts ident aside from sporting a light blue square logo with the network name in white, also had a circle 7 logo in use, In its final years, the blue circle 7 logo used was similar to those used by the ABC in some United States cities (later used the rainbow colors of red, yellow, green and blue stripes, as GMA prepares for a network reformatting).

GMA Tacloban went commercial broadcast operations in 1988 as DYCL-TV channel 7, the second VHF television station established in Tacloban City after the establishment of provincial stations of BBC Channel 2 (owned by Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation). Its transmitter was at 5-kilowatt power capacity, covering Tacloban City and nearby islands. During that same year, News at Seven Tacloban, the station's first local newscast was launched as the first local newscast of GMA Radio-Television News (now GMA Integrated News) that serving Tacloban City. At that time, DYCL-TV was the first regional station of the GMA Radio-Television Arts network to introduce some localized news. The station's programming was scheduled until 1992, when GMA Tacloban became a relay station of DYSS-TV Cebu City followed by frequency from Channel 7 to Channel 10; thus allowing it to work at par with Cebu-based programming, as well as becoming a hub for viewers in the Tacloban City area and Leyte provinces.

On April 30, 1992, following the network's Rainbow Satellite Network launch, DYCL-TV officially commences a satellite station to bring live broadcasts of national and foreign programming from the network's flagship station DZBB-TV Channel 7 Manila to viewers in the Eastern Visayas region, with retaining local programming from its Cebu station to serve local audiences. Following the launch, GMA utilizes a new logo to correspond with the rebranding and a satellite-beaming rainbow in a multicolored striped based on the traditional scheme of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, with GMA in a metallic form uses a San Serif Futura Extra Bold and analogous gloominess of Indigo as its fonts in the letters.

On October 4, 1999, GMA Tacloban began simulcasting the first local newscast Balitang Bisdak, which originated from GMA Cebu that catering the Waray viewers in Tacloban City besides Cebuano.

On November 8, 2013, GMA Tacloban went off the air due to the landfall of Typhoon Haiyan, causing the station's transmitter facility and the electrical lines were heavily damaged brought by the said typhoon. A month later, the program returns after power was restored in Mt. Canlais, Basper.

On December 31, 2021, GMA Tacloban commenced its ISDB-T digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 34 covering Tacloban City and the provinces of Leyte, as well as several parts of Samar and Biliran.

All of the following programs are relayed from GMA Cebu:

• Balitang Bisdak
• Word of God Network

UHF Channel 34 (593.143 MHz)

• Tacloban
• Leyte

• Samar
• Portion of Biliran
• Portion of Southern Leyte
• Portion of Sorsogon

DYCL-TV's programming is relayed to the following stations across the Eastern Visayas.

• DYSS-TV
• List of GMA Network stations

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