MANDAUE CITY — Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar led the groundbreaking for the P300 million Visayas Media Hub (VMH) on Thursday, Feb. 24 in Barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue City.
Andanar said this is the first-ever media hub facility initiated by the PCOO and People’s Television Network Inc. (PTV) that will serve as the main broadcast center for Regions 6, 7, and 8.
According to Andanar, Senator Christopher “Bong” Go was instrumental in pushing for the allocation of P300 million in the 2022 national budget for the construction of the state-of-the-art media facility to boost the capacity of government media in the Visayas.
Another P300 million was also included in the PCOO’s 2022 budget for the various equipment needed for the operations of the VMH.
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the PCOO will enter into a usufruct agreement for the use of the former’s Subangdaku lot in Mandaue City. Both agencies are also working closely for the detailed architectural and engineering design of the VMH.
Similar to the success of the Mindanao Media Hub in Davao City, Andanar bared that the VMH will be a world-class communications facility of the government in Cebu. It is the second media hub of the PCOO outside Metro Manila after the MMH conducted its pilot live broadcast in December 2020.