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University of the City of Manila.
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Wilma Galvante
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As the chief of the Global Media Arts Network"s entertainment block, she experimented with dramas, light-hearted shows and hired good writers. She revived the love team tandem popularized in the 1970s, resurrected local comics titles and introduced fantasy series on prime time such as Mulawin. Through her initiative, the network brought the rights to a number of local comics titles such as Darna and Captain Barbel.
By the last quarter of 2003, Global Media Arts’s primetime shows led over the rival network’son
On September 11, 2015, Galvante was officially leaving her post as the Entertainment Head of TV5, to form a content company (similar to the IdeaFirst Company, which her predecessor Perci Intalan is one of the founders) that will produce TV5 programs including Happy Truck ng Bayan and Wattpad Presents. Immediately after graduating from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Wilma was employed as a production assistant at Radio Philippines Network.
Through this early work experience, she was able to understand how it is to run a television show from the financial to production aspect. She became a sought-after line producer in the 1970s and 1980s that even the film greats such as Lino Brocka and Lupita Kashiwahara demanded that she work for them.
She worked at ungodly hours.
The show kick-started other talent shows.
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