The last remnant of the popular 2000s TV channel has been removed.
Last April 27, free-to-air movies and entertainment channel Solar Flix made a slight on-air tweak in terms of its programming.
The channel, which launched in July 2022, has dropped the ETCerye banner for its Turkish dramas (also known as dizileri) in favor of the new Solar Flix Pinoy Dub programming belt.
The renaming of the belt comes after the channel introduced, on the same day, the series Twist Of Love, which airs Monday to Friday at 8:00 pm.
Despite the change, the channel continued to broadcast its ongoing series The Secret Of Feriha, The Untold Story, which airs weeknights at 9:00 pm, and carried it over to the new banner brand for the Tagalog-dubbed foreign serials.
Also included in the Pinoy Dub segment are the channel’s Turkish Drama Archive every weekday afternoon at 4:00 pm.
The removal of the ETCerye name also officially marks the end of an era for one of Solar Entertainment’s flagship channels in the past, ETC—which is Solar Flix’s predecessor.
The said title was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020 and stuck on for more than five years.
That is despite the channel’s rebranding in July 2022, which marked the end of ETC’s nearly two-decades on the air. Hence, making ETCerye the only remnant of the channel that used to occupy the said space.
Launched back in 2004, ETC first bore the sub-name Entertainment Central and was also only exclusive to pay television like the rest of Solar’s portfolio of channels.
It was Solar’s second attempt at creating an all-day entertainment channel, with their eponymous SEC having been rebranded in 2002 to give way to the Solar Sports channel.
In 2008, it would move to free-to-air television via the blocktime agreement with Southern Broadcasting Network (SBN)—where it stayed for most of its existence, except for brief transfer to RPN-9 from 2011 to 2013.
The channel capitalized on the popularity of foreign shows, mainly acquired from the United States, and became home to multiple hit series such as The Vampire Diaries, Glee, Pretty Little Liars, and Gossip Girl.
ETC also dabbled into original, local productions such as Project Runway Philippines, and Etcetera, among others.