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Snow Badua
Edmund "Snow" Pineda Badua (born April 22, 1977) is a Filipino sports journalist writing articles for Spin.ph. He is also the founder of "PTV Sports", a nightly sports newscast aired on PTV which served as his home network from March 2006 to January 2015. Career history In the late 1990s, he was a DJ for 101.5 Big Sound FM Cabanatuan under his on-air name "John Patrick". On March 6, 2006, Badua joined PTV (which is NBN, by the time) and he created what have been the number one sports newscast in the country, NBN Sports. He do multi-tasking skills for the one-hour sports newscast, acts as a head writer, reporter, host, cameraman and editor. He also covered field reports for the NBN News team. Within the years, the show also joined by co-hosts Saleema Refran, Jasmin Romero, Meg Siozon, Dennis Guillermo, Flor Perez, Dennis Principe, Ycah Montes, Nicole Ramos and Michelle Gavagan with reporters Robert Belen, JP Palileo, Christabel de Leon, Keisha Halili and Arianne Mallare and DZ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League
The Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines. History Manny Pacquiao launched the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League on August 29, 2017, starting off as a semi-professional league. According to Pacquiao, the league is not intended to be a competitor to the Philippine Basketball Association, the country's top professional basketball league. The MPBL was intended to feature both a regional commercial and barangay-level league with teams on the commercial side to have a home locality in addition to a corporate sponsor. In the first months, the league hosted teams from Luzon with future plans to expand to accommodate teams based in Visayas and Mindanao like the defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association. It is planned that an expanded MPBL will have two conferences, North and South, where the best teams from both divisions will face in the finals similar to the format of the National Basketball Association of the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chito Narvasa
Andres "Chito" Yuseco Narvasa, Jr. (born October 18, 1956) is a Filipino business executive and former basketball player and coach. He is best known as the ninth commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association. Personal life He is the son of Andres Narvasa, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, and Janina Yuseco. He is also the brother of former MBA and PBL commissioner Ogie Narvasa. Basketball Narvasa, along with his brother, Ogie, played for the Ateneo Blue Eagles. The Narvasa brothers were also part of the Philippine national teams of 1977 and 1978. They jointly coached the Blue Eagles from the early to late 1980s. Narvasa coached the Shell and Purefoods franchises in the PBA from 1995 to 1998. He was also the president of the Basketball Coaches Association of the Philippines (BCAP). PBA Commissioner On May 14, 2015, Narvasa was appointed as the ninth league commissioner via a unanimous 12–0 vote by the PBA Board of Governors. He took the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipino Sportswriters
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Filipino Sports Journalists
Filipino may refer to: * Something from or related to the Philippines ** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines. ** Filipinos, people who are citizens of the Philippines or are of Filipino descent. Other uses * Filipinos (snack food), branded cookies manufactured in Europe See also * * * Filipinas (other) Filipinas may refer to: * ''Filipinas, letra para la marcha nacional'', the Spanish poem by José Palma that eventually became the Filipino national anthem. * The original Spanish name, and also used in different Philippines languages including F ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Chito Salud
Angelico Tiu Salud (born June 17, 1962), better known as Chito Salud, is a Filipino lawyer and sports executive who currently serves as team governor of the Converge Fiber Xers in PBA. He was the first president and CEO of the Philippine Basketball Association and previously served as its eighth commissioner. He is the son of Rudy Salud, who was the commissioner of the PBA from 1988 to 1992. Education Salud is a graduate of a Bachelor of Science degree in Legal Management at the Ateneo de Manila University and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines. He is a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi. Career Professional Prior to his involvement with the PBA, Salud has had extensive work experience in both government and private sectors: * Appointed as President of the National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation, a government owned and controlled corporation (GOCC), in September 2000 by former President Joseph Estrada. * Appointed as President of the Natural Resou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABS-CBN News Channel
ABS-CBN News Channel, commonly known as ANC, is a 24/7 Philippine pay television news channel. It was launched in 1996 as the first all-news network in English language. The majority of its programs are produced by ABS-CBN News. The channel is broadcast on terrestrial television in Guam through Dededo's channel 22. ANC is being broadcast from the ANC studio in ABS-CBN Newsroom, Studio 6 & Studio 7 in ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in the Philippines. An international feed called ''ANC Global'' is also available worldwide as part of TFC premium channels via cable, satellite, iWantTFC and TFC IPTV. History The ABS-CBN News Channel was originally established in 1996 as the Sarimanok News Network or SNN. SNN was the brainchild of the late Eugenio Lopez, Jr. who envisioned a 24-hour television network that would become the primary source of news and information for Filipinos. On May 1, 1996, SNN was first offered on Sky Cable. Back then the channel served the viewers through two ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Twister
Mohan Gumatay (born October 19, 1977), known professionally as Mo Twister, is a Filipino American radio and television presenter. He is best known for his ''Good Times'' programs, which started as a radio show and later spun off to the television and Internet. He currently resides in Las Vegas and remotely hosts the ''Good Times with Mo'' (''GTWM'') radio show on Magic 89.9 in the Philippines, as well as his own ''GTWM'' podcast. Discography TV shows *''Celebrity Talk'' present (Main Host) ( TV5) *'' Talk TV'' (ABS-CBN) *''SOP'' (GMA Network) *'' ASAP'' (ABS-CBN) (1999–2003) *''Cyberkada'' (ABS-CBN) *'' The Buzz'' (ABS-CBN) *''Sabado Live'' (ABS-CBN) *''Keep on Dancing'' (ABS-CBN) *''Y Speak'' (Studio 23) *''Showbiz Central'' (GMA Network) - co-host (2007–2010) *''Points of View'' (Studio 23) *''Kabarkada, Break the Bank'' (Studio 23) *''Last Woman Standing'' ( Q) *''Good Times'' (Studio 23) *''iMO: In My Opinion'' (ANC) *''Paparazzi'' - co-host ( TV5) *'' Juicy'' - co-host ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfrancis Chua
Alfrancis P. Chua (born January 17, 1966) is a Filipino sports executive and former basketball player and coach. He is currently the team manager of Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and the sports director of San Miguel Corporation (SMC), overseeing the professional sports teams of the SMC group (Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, the San Miguel Beermen, the Magnolia Hotshots and the Petron Blaze Spikers). Playing career *Letran Squires (NCAA) *UST Glowing Goldies ( UAAP) *Philips Sardines ( PABL) *Lucky Cement (Taiwan) Coaching career Philippine Basketball League (PBL) Stag Pale Pilseners (1995-1996) Chua was the head coach of the Stag Pale Pilseners in the Philippine Basketball League. He achieved the grand slam during the franchise's debut 1995-1996 season, winning the Reinforced Conference, All-Filipino Cup and the Danny Floro Cup. After two seasons, Stag won four of the six tournaments held. Tanduay Gold Rhum Masters (1997-1999) The Stag franchise was renamed the Tanduay Gold Rh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel
The Barangay Ginebra San Miguel is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The most popular team in the league, it is owned by Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. (formerly, La Tondeña Distillers, Inc.), a subsidiary of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC). The team is one of three PBA ball clubs currently owned by the SMC group of companies, along with the Magnolia Hotshots and the San Miguel Beermen. Barangay Ginebra is one of three teams with 14 PBA championships—second-most in league history behind San Miguel's 28 titles—the other being the Magnolia Hotshots and the now-defunct Alaska Aces. La Tondeña, Inc. (renamed, La Tondeña Distillers, Inc., after SMC acquired majority control in 1987) joined the PBA in 1979 as an expansion team. After some rough times during their first few seasons, their fortunes changed when veterans Robert Jaworski and Francis Arnaiz arrived in 1984, following the disbandment of the famed Toyota Tamaraws. With new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN Philippines
CNN Philippines (abbreviated as CNN PH) is a commercial broadcast, cable and satellite television network in the Philippines. It is owned and operated by Nine Media Corporation, together with Radio Philippines Network (RPN) as the main content provider, under license from Warner Bros. Discovery. Replacing 9TV, CNN Philippines was launched on March 16, 2015. CNN Philippines is the fifth local franchise of CNN in Asia, after CNN Indonesia, CNN Türk, CNN Arabic and CNN-IBN (now CNN-News18 in India). CNN Philippines' local programming is produced from the Upper Ground Floor of the Worldwide Corporate Center, Shaw Boulevard corner Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Mandaluyong. The channel maintains its analog transmitter located at the RPN Compound, #97 Panay Avenue, Brgy. South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City; while digital transmission facilities are located at the Crestview Subdivision, Barangay San Roque, Antipolo, Rizal. On October 14, 2014, Turner Broadcasting System with Nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' (''PDI''), or simply the ''Inquirer'', is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines. Founded in 1985, it is often regarded as the Philippines' newspaper of record. The newspaper is the most awarded broadsheet in the Philippines and the multimedia group, called The Inquirer Group, reaches 54 million people across several platforms. History The ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' was founded on December 9, 1985, by publisher Eugenia Apóstol, columnist Max Solivén, together with Betty Go-Belmonte during the last days of the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, becoming one of the first private newspapers to be established under the Marcos regime. The ''Inquirer'' succeeded the weekly ''Philippine Inquirer'', created in 1985 by Apostol to cover the trial of 25 soldiers accused of complicity in the assassination of opposition leader Ninoy Aquino at Manila International Airport on August 21, 1983. Apostol also published the '' Mr. & Ms. Spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
