ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, known on-air as ABS-CBN News (formerly known as ''ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs''), is the

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and

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division of the Philippine media conglomerate

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. The division is the country's largest international news gathering and broadcast organization, maintaining several foreign news bureaus and offices through ABS-CBN's Global division. The division generates news output for the company's media assets such as radio station

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; the former main

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terrestrial television network (including its former free-to-air television and radio stations) and its current ad-interim replacements

Kapamilya Channel Kapamilya Channel () is a 24-hour Filipino pay television network owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation, a subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation. Its headquarters is located at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City and serves ...

A2Z A2Z may refer to: * A2Z (2006 film), a 2006 German action film *A2Z (TV channel) A2Z is a Philippine free-to-air blocktime broadcast television network based in Quezon City, with its studios located in Ortigas Center, Pasig. It serves as a flag ...

All TV All TV (stylized as ALLTV and known on-air as ALLTV2) is a Television in the Philippines, Philippine free-to-air Terrestrial television, broadcast television network serving as the flagship property of Advanced Media Broadcasting System (AMBS) ...

and

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; cable television through ANC and

DZMM TeleRadyo DZMM TeleRadyo (formerly TeleRadyo Serbisyo and also known as simply TeleRadyo) is a Philippine Pay television, pay television channel owned by Media Serbisyo Production Corporation, a joint venture between Prime Media Holdings (through its s ...

; international channel TFC; and news websites

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and patrol.ph, which the former ranks as the top news website in the country as of November 2021.

History

News division

The oldest of the two components, the news division began as the news section of two radio stations - DZBC (opened 1949) and DZAQ (opened 1950) both in the Manila area, and DZRI (opened 1951) in Pangasinan, all under the Bolinao Electronics Corporation and later under the Alto Broadcasting System, which broadcast news programs and commentary as part of their programming schedules. In 1956, the Chronicle Broadcasting Network, together with the first news broadcasts on DZXL, started the short-lived 24-hour station DZQL ''Radyo Reloj'' broadcasting news and current affairs until late 1959, the first station of its kind in the country. When the two networks merged in 1957, first as part of Bolinao Electronics Corporation and later on in 1961 adopting the ABS-CBN brand (which it started to adapt the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation as corporate name on February 1, 1967, and later ABS-CBN Corporation on October 1, 2008, with the former now serves as the conglomerate's secondary and alternative name since the said date of October 2008), the news services of these four Manila stations, later reduced to three, were combined into a unified news service but then with separate programs, as the network began expanding with the purchase and later opening of additional stations, first in the Ilocos region and the Cordillera, and then into the Visayas islands, Mindanao, and southern parts of Luzon, with the national radio service broadcasting from the Chronicle Building along Aduana street, Intramuros, Manila, which began broadcasting the two Manila stations in 1958. Alongside them was a small television news service on DZAQ-TV 3 and DZXL-TV 9 with updates broadcast daily, owing to the lack of proper news programs from the beginning of broadcasts in late 1953, with both stations' news bureaus based in the television studios in Roxas Boulevard, Pasay (opened in 1958). Proper news programming on TV, however, would begin in 1960 when news coverage for the national elections began. Channel 9's ''Coverage'' would be the first weekly news program produced by ABS-CBN and it would be followed by the first Filipino-language TV newscast, ''Balita Ngayon'', in 1966 on Channel 3 and in November 21 with the English-language newscast ''

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'' on late nights, which is today the longest running English-language national newscast. Channel 9 followed suit with the long-running ''Newsbreak'' as well, joined later by ''Apat na Sulok ng Daigdig''. By 1968, following the aftermath of the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Casiguran (in which

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was severely affected by the quake), leading to the collapse of the

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in August that same year, the joint radio and color television coverage of which was the first time ever for a Philippine media company to do so, DZAQ was later converted into a 24-hour Filipino language news and current affairs radio station, adopting the ''DZAQ Radyo Patrol 960'' branding under the initiative of former station manager

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, veteran broadcaster

Joe Taruc Jose Malgapo Taruc Jr. (; September 18, 1947 – September 30, 2017), also known as Joe Taruc, was a Filipino news anchor who worked at DZRH in the Philippines. He was one of the top-rating news anchors on radio. Aside from being a news ancho ...

, Ben Aniceto, the then ABS-CBN program director and Chief Engr. Emil Solidum, whose efforts led to the recruitment of the first generation of mobile field reporters for news coverage and flash reports, a first for any radio station at that time. The station would prove to be a leading source of breaking news stories in the late 1960s and before Martial Law stopped broadcasts in September 1972, Radyo Patrol services were operational in select regional stations, alongside an active service of regional programming in all provincial TV stations in addition to occasional nationwide broadcasts via satellite, the first for any station by then. In 1969 the network would also make history with the first ever weekend news broadcast, ''This Week's News'', a Channel 2 presentation. In July 1986, the news services of ABS-CBN were officially reactivated as part of the network's return to former owners, when DZMM was officially relaunched that month from the Benpres Building in the

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District of Pasig. The new station broadcast its newscasts twice daily, Mondays to Saturdays, with a Sunday midday news program. Two months later, both ''Balita Ngayon'' and ''The World Tonight'' made their television returns on the now reopened TV network. In February 1987, ''Balita Ngayon'' aired its final broadcasts to give way to the now current flagship Filipino language broadcast, ''

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'', which began on March 2, 1987. The network restarted regional TV news services in 1988, the same year it launched nationwide satellite broadcasts of ''TV Patrol'' to reach viewers all over the nation.

Current affairs division

The division traces its roots to the current affairs and commentary programming that both DZAQ and later on DZXL and DZQL aired beginning in the mid-1950s in both Filipino and English, keeping listeners informed of the latest issues that affect Filipinos. In the 1960s, these would also be complemented by television programming featuring such voices like Max Soliven and Francisco Rodrigo that were aired on the two TV channels.

Divisions

The division operates mainly and is headquartered at ABS-CBN Broadcast Complex in

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while the ABS-CBN regional stations also have their local news divisions, which is a big help in newsgathering for the whole network. It also has news bureaus in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East with the help of

The Filipino Channel The Filipino Channel, commonly known as TFC, is a global subscription television network owned and operated by the Philippine media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. Its programming is composed primarily of imported programs produced and distri ...

(owned by ABS-CBN Global, Ltd.), these make ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs ahead among the other news organizations in the country as they were the largest and the most comprehensive when it comes to local and international newsgathering. The division is currently headed by ABS-CBN's Senior Vice President for Integrated News and Current Affairs Mary Anne Francis B. Toral-Torres (who replaced Ma. Regina "Ging" Reyes, who retired on December 24, 2022). It is further subdivided into different subgroups: * Integrated News Administration Group, headed by Claude Vitug. * News Gathering Group, headed by Chi Almario-Gonzales. * News Production Group, headed by Dondie Garcia. *

ABS-CBN News Channel The 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 and Curre ...

, headed by Alvaro Dan Morga. * Regional News Bureaus, headed by Stanley Palisada. * Global News Bureaus, headed by Alcuin Papa. * ABS-CBN News Digital * ABS-CBN Weather Center is the

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division of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs. * DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 (formerly DWPM Radyo 630) is a Filipino-language news and talk AM radio station operated by Media Serbisyo Production Corporation, a joint venture between ABS-CBN and

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headed by the President, Marah Faner-Capuyan. ** DZMM Teleradyo (formerly ''TeleRadyo Serbisyo, or'' simply known as ''TeleRadyo'') the television counterpart of DZMM Radyo Patrol 630. * ''DocuCentral'' is the producer of highly acclaimed documentaries shown on ABS-CBN's platforms. Aside from regular programming, it also operates the

(ANC), the first and the only 24-hour

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news channel in the country. The division also operates a news website ABS-CBNnews.com in partnership with ''

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''.

Programs

Currently aired

DZMM Radyo Patrol 630/DZMM Teleradyo

Kapamilya Channel

*'' My Puhunan: Kaya Mo!'' *''

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'' *''

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'' *'' Tao Po!'' *''

'' *'' TV Patrol Express'' *''

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'' *''

A2Z

*'' My Puhunan: Kaya Mo!'' *''

'' *''

'' *'' Tao Po!'' *''

'' *'' TV Patrol Express'' *''

PRTV Prime Media

All TV

*''

'' *'' TV Patrol Express'' *''

ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC)

The Filipino Channel (TFC)

*''

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'' *''TFC News''

Defunct programs

Regional programs

;Newscasts *''TV Patrol Bicol'' (ABS-CBN TV-11 Naga) *''TV Patrol Central Visayas'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Cebu) *''TV Patrol Chavacano'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Zamboanga) *''TV Patrol Eastern Visayas'' (ABS-CBN TV-2 Tacloban) *''TV Patrol Negros'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Bacolod) *''TV Patrol North Luzon'' (ABS-CBN TV-2 Isabela, ABS-CBN TV-7 Laoag, ABS-CBN TV-3 Baguio, ABS-CBN TV-32 Dagupan and ABS-CBN TV-46 Pampanga) *''TV Patrol North Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Cagayan de Oro and ABS-CBN TV-11 Butuan) *''TV Patrol Palawan'' (ABS-CBN TV-7 Palawan) *''TV Patrol Panay'' (ABS-CBN TV-10 Iloilo) *''TV Patrol South Central Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 General Santos and ABS-CBN TV-5 Cotabato) *''TV Patrol Southern Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Davao) *''TV Patrol Southern Tagalog'' (ABS-CBN TV-10 Batangas) ;Regional news bulletins *''News Patrol Bicol'' (ABS-CBN TV-11 Naga) *''News Patrol Central Visayas'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Cebu) *''News Patrol Chavacano'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Zamboanga) *''News Patrol North Luzon'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Baguio and TV-32 Dagupan) *''News Patrol North Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Cagayan de Oro and TV-11 Butuan) *''News Patrol Palawan'' (ABS-CBN TV-7 Palawan) *''News Patrol South Central Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 General Santos and ABS-CBN TV-5 Cotabato) *''News Patrol Southern Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Davao) *''TV Patrol Panay News Advisory'' (ABS-CBN TV-10 Iloilo) ;Other regional programs *''Bagong Morning Kapamilya'' (ABS-CBN TV-2 Isabela, ABS-CBN TV-7 Laoag, ABS-CBN TV-3 Baguio and ABS-CBN TV-32 Dagupan) *''Maayong Buntag Kapamilya'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Cebu and ABS-CBN TV-2 Tacloban) **''Maayong Buntag Kapamilya Sabado'' **''Maupay nga Aga Kapamilya'' *''Maayong Buntag Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Davao and ABS-CBN TV-3 Zamboanga) **''Maayong Buntag Mindanao Sabado'' **''Buenos Días Zamboanga'' *''Magandang Umaga South Central Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 General Santos) *''Marhay na Aga Kapamilya'' (ABS-CBN TV-11 Naga) *''Pamahaw Espesyal'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Cagayan de Oro) *''Panay Sikat'' (ABS-CBN TV-10 Iloilo) **''Panay Sikat Sabado'' *''The Morning Show'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Bacolod) ;TeleRadyo programs * ''Headline Pilipinas'' * ''Lingkod Kapamilya sa TeleRadyo'' * ''Sakto'' * ''SRO: Suhestyon, Reaksyon, at Opinyon'' * ''Omaga-Diaz Reports'' * ''On the Spot'' * ''Pasada sa TeleRadyo'' * ''TeleRadyo Balita''

iPatrol Mo!

ABS-CBN News launched its own

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campaign during its coverage of the

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. Initially entitled ' (

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for ''Your Vote, You Patrol''), it reflects upon the station's flagship newscast, ''TV Patrol''. The campaign is now called ' (''Your Town, You Patrol'') and is often abbreviated as BMPM. An extension of the campaign ''BMPM: Ako ang Simula'' (''I Am the Beginning'') was launched on May 11, 2009 - and was its banner for the network's coverage of the 2010 Presidential Elections. A re-launch of the campaign was carried out in June 2009 by the network as part of its commemoration of Philippine Independence Day. For 2013, the campaign evolves to ''BMPM: Tayo Na!'' (

for ''Let's Go!'') as its citizen journalism arm for the network's coverage of the 2013 Elections. This campaign was kicked off on June 12, 2012. What once started out as an arm that is mainly dependent on using

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and MMS technologies, BMPM has provided more venues for "Bayan Patrollers" - people who submit reports to BMPM - through its digital and social media presence. BMPM also comes as a feature in two mobile apps - ABS-CBNnews.com's and

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's - which are present in

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, and

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. The network's two main competitors - GMA (

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) and TV5 (

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) - also have their own

campaigns named ''YouScoop+'' (formerly ''YouScoop'' and ''#BalitaKo'') and ''Mobile Journo'', respectively.

References

External links

ABS-CBN Official Website

ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs Official Website

ABS-CBN News Channel Official Website

DZMM Official Website

patrol.ph
{{ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs current programming

History

News division

Current affairs division

Divisions

Programs

Currently aired

DZMM Radyo Patrol 630/DZMM Teleradyo

Kapamilya Channel

A2Z

PRTV Prime Media

All TV

ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC)

The Filipino Channel (TFC)

Defunct programs

Regional programs

iPatrol Mo!

See also

References

External links