ABS-CBN Network (ABS-CBN) also known as Kapamilya Network is a major commercial television network in the Philippines. It is owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation. The first broadcast was on October 23, 1953 in a garden party in Quirino's residence using DZAQ-TV (owned by James Lindenberg of BEC), the first television station in the Philippines. The broadcast was the second commercial television broadcast in Asia and the first in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.