Solar Entertainment

Solar Entertainment Corporation
Solar Entertainment
TypePrivate
IndustryMass media
FoundedJanuary 3, 1976 (1976-01-03) (as a TV movie company)
July 15, 1988 (1988-07-15) (as a film distribution company)
June 17, 2000 (2000-06-17) (as a cable television network)
January 1, 2008 (2008-01-01) (as a broadcast company)
Headquarters
Solar Century Tower, 100 Tordesillas St., Corner H.V. Dela Costa St., Salcedo Village, Makati, Metro Manila
,
Philippines
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Brands
  • Solar All Access
  • SolarFlix
  • Solar Learning
  • Solar Sports
  • Shop TV
  • Solar Pictures
  • Solar Scoop
  • Sinag Maynila Film Festival
  • BYD
  • Dynamex
  • Dynamo
  • Federated Distributors, Inc.
  • Gourdo's
  • KLG
  • KLG Foodservice
  • L. Meyerf Pharma, Inc.
  • Manila Goldcoast Development Corporation
  • Shacman
  • Solar Resources
  • Winning Touch International Marketing, Inc.
ServicesBroadcasting
Television
Cable television
TV Production
Motion Picture
Film distribution
Digital media
Streaming
Foodservice
RevenueIncrease ₱1.372 billion (FY 2015)
Increase ₱124.43 million (FY 2015)
OwnerSolar Films Inc. (38%)
Wilson Y. Tieng (21%)
William Y. Tieng (15%)
DivisionsFormer:
Nine Media News and Current Affairs (formerly Solar News) (2011—2024)
SubsidiariesCurrent:
ETC Productions
Southern Broadcasting Network
Solar Digital Media Holdings
Domestic Satellite Philippines, Inc.
Former:
Nine Media Corporation (formerly Solar Television Network, Inc.) (2011—2014)
Websitesolarstudiosinc.com

Solar Entertainment Corporation (also known as Solar Entertainment, and simply known as Solar or SEC) is a Filipino media company based in Makati, Philippines. Founded and owned by the brothers Wilson, William and Willy Tieng, Solar Entertainment operates three digital free-to-air channels and one cable channel. Solar also owns a film distribution company (Solar Pictures) and defunct freemium digital television service (Easy TV Home).

Solar Entertainment owns and operates three digital TV channels: SolarFlix, Solar Sports, Solar Learning and Shop TV. It also owns television network Southern Broadcasting Network (SBN).

Solar Entertainment formerly owns Nine Media Corporation, a Solar's former broadcast media firm, which privatized Radio Philippines Network (RPN) in 2011. NMC and RPN are currently owned by ALC Group of Companies and operates RPTV, a free-to-air channel in partnership with TV5 Network.