9TV was launched on August 23, 2014, at 12:00 MN, as a replacement for
Solar News Channel. Its first show as 9TV was a replay of
Nightly News. Solar News, the network's news arm was rebranded as
9News. The rebranding of the network came after Antonio Cabangon Chua's acquisition of Tieng's share of both STVNI (now known as Nine Media Corporation) and RPN to ALC Group of Companies due to the Tieng's loss of revenue after investing in RPN. The newscasts, current affairs programs, and public service programs carried from the SNC format and the personnel were retained. It also beefed up their weekend programming including cartoons, infotainment programs, reality, and infomercials to cater more viewers. The rebranding stage took almost seven months until 9TV was rebranded into
CNN Philippines that launched on March 16, 2015. 9News inked a partnership deal with international news network
CNN. As part of the transition to CNN Philippines, 9TV temporarily used green screen as their news studio while their main newsroom and studio is under renovation in December 2014 and 9TV newscasts and current affairs programs began adopting CNN-themed graphics a week later (January 15, 2015). Some non-CNN programming (
NBC and
CBS shows), as well as the Home Shopping Network (now
Shop TV) and Kids Weekend (now defunct
CNN Philippines Junior) block were axed in the coming months. ==Affiliate==