Inquirer Lifestyle Series: Fitness.Fashion with Samsung Documentary

Producers: ABS-CBN, Docu Central and Ultimate Productions, Inc.

The story of the Inquirer Lifestyle Series: Fitness.Fashion with Samsung fashion show when media imposed during the several years, in 1941, the outbreak of World War 2 and September 23, 1972, with the imposition of martial law.

My countrymen, as of the twenty-first of this month, I signed Proclamation № 1081 placing the entire Philippines under Martial Law...

— Ferdinand Marcos, September 21, 1972.

Before The Manila Times was born, several native papers were already in existence written in Spanish, and most of them were nationalistic and revolutionary.

The first issue of The Manila Times had a sheet of two leaves, or four pages, measuring about 12 by 8 inches, each page divided into two columns. The first page was taken up by announcements and advertisements. Page 2 was the editorial page. It contained the editorials and the more important news of the day. Page 3 was devoted to cable news from Europe and the United States all bearing on the Spanish-American War.

From the first world war to the modern history of The Philippines since 1986 to present, the lifestyle media was boomed in the last 60 years (1953-2013).

Several pre-martial law sports, lifestyle and entertainment magazines in the Philippines, as well the TV stations at the time.

At the turn of the 1980's, The Philippine Daily Inquirer was a daily newspaper founded on December 9, 1985 by publisher Eugenia Apóstol, columnist Max Solivén, together with Betty Go-Belmonte (wife of Speaker of House of the Representatives Feliciano "Sonny" Belmonte) during the last days of the regime of the Philippine dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, becoming one of the second private newspapers to be established under the Marcos regime.

On 28 February 1986, after the Revolution, Geny Lopez returned to the country after self-exile in the United States and started rebuilding from what was left of the station. Recovery was difficult and resources were low, hence, former ABS-CBN employee Freddie M. García was brought in to rework the station's programming. By 1988, ABS-CBN had regained its foothold in Philippine TV ratings.

A video clip of ABS-CBN's inauguration on September 1986 and the ABS-CBN Family singing the station's jingle: "The Philippines' Largest Network" which combines the 1987 six-note "A-B-S-C-B-N" instrumental jingle" and the 1967 slogan "The Philippines' Largest Network" composed by Phil Defino. 

On 1 March 1987, Channel 2 was relaunched with the live musical special, The Star Network: Ang Pagbabalík Ng Bituin (The Return of the Star) which noted for the then-brand-new numerical white tri-ribbon channel 2 logo with a white rhombidal star (from 1988 to 1992 the ribbons were tri-coloured in red, green and blue) as a centrepiece of the network's revival. Within the year, ABS-CBN also beefed up its news programmes with TV Patrol, anchored by a team of newsreaders composed of now former Vice-President Noli de Castro, Mel Tiangco, Frankie Evangelista, and Angelique Lazo, with the late Ernie Baron telling the daily weather forecast.

Other reputable news programmes followed, such as Magandang Gabi, Bayan and Hoy Gising!. The entertainment programmes of ABS-CBN were also revamped with series that previously aired on RPN-9 and IBC-13: (Eat Bulaga!, Okey Ka Fairy Ko!, The Sharon Cuneta Show, Coney Reyes on Camera) while producing original content (The Maricel Soriano Drama Special, Palibhasa Lalake, Home Along Da Riles). Another feature of its return to the top of the ratings is the introduction of the live-action sentai and tokusatsu show formats (with Bioman and Shaider) to Philippine television. Filipino-dubbed anime programmes, another network and Philippine television first, would only begin in the transition to the 1990s.

On October 1987, the PMPC Star Awards for Television was launched.

The video clip of TV Patrol's premiere telecast on March 2, 1987 (courtesy of ABS-CBN News Library), while the video clip of PMPC Star Awards for Television '87 segment: Best Station for Balanced Programming: the station IDs of ABS-CBN, PTV, GMA, RPN and IBC in 1987 (courtesy of Philippine Movie Press Club Archives).

PTV-4's coverage of The 1988 Seoul Olympic Games,

On November 7, 1988, the GMA-Tower of Power transmitter was opened by Philippine President Corazon Aquino and the GMA Network board of directors. A grand TV special was started after the inauguration. 

A video clip for the inauguration ceremonies of the Tower of Power Transmitter (full video) was aired on the same date on the said station. (courtesy of GMA Network Library)

The 1988 Seoul Olympics in Spain and PTV-4 was the official broadcaster of this event for the 2nd time after the historic Edsa People Power Revolution in 1986.

Geny Lopez died of a heart attack and cancer on 29 June 1999 in West Avenue Medical Center in Quezon City. This happened on the same year when the network inaugurated its Millennium Transmitter in the corporation grounds, resulting in a more clear signal for its television and radio stations nationwide, and put up its own grand New Year's Day broadcast for the year 2000 in 3 simultaneous locations, and unveiled a new logo a day later.