GMA Pinoy TV was first launched in March 2005 in Japan. It was later launched in several parts of the United States in the same year, such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the states of the East Coast. The channel was launched in San Francisco on July 23, 2005. A second channel,
GMA Life TV, was successfully launched on February 16, 2008 and soon grew to 109,000 subscribers. GMA Pinoy TV had 225,000 subscribers as of September 2009. The percent of subscribers has gone up 34% according to
GMA New Media, Inc. In December 2010, both GMA Pinoy TV and GMA Life TV has expanded its coverage area in the US to Chicago, Illinois, New York, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Alabama and Virginia, and internationally to Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom and Europe. In 2011, the channels were launched in Australia and Papua New Guinea. On October 5, 2011, GMA Pinoy TV accepted two awards from the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) in New York for 2011 Excellence in Multicultural Marketing Awards. On April 26, 2023,
ABS-CBN Corporation and
GMA Network, Inc. announced that GMA Pinoy TV will be available on
ABS-CBN's
iWantTFC (now
iWant) for viewers outside of the Philippines on May 1 alongside
GMA News TV and
GMA Life TV. ==See also==