{{Infobox television , image = Sentro logo used from March 10, 2008 to August 8, 2008.jpg , image_size = 220 , caption = Information At Your Hands (Impormasyon sa iyong mga kamay) , genre =

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, creator =

ABC Development Corporation TV5 Network Inc., commonly known as TV5, is a Philippine media company based in Mandaluyong, with its alternate studios located in Novaliches, Quezon City. It is primarily involved in radio and television broadcasting, with subsidiaries and ...

, company = ABC News and Public Affairs , director = Rosario Andres , presenter =

Martin Andanar Jose Ruperto Martin Marfori Andanar (born August 21, 1974) is a Filipino television news personality, news anchor, radio commentator, podcaster, and voice-over artist. He served as the secretary of the Presidential Communications Office of the ...

, narrated = Mike Carreon , opentheme = , endtheme = , country = Philippines , language = Filipino (April 12, 2004-June 22, 2007)
English (June 25, 2007-August 8, 2008) , executive_producer = Sonny Fernandez
Jackie Sierda , location = ABC 5 Studio B, Novaliches,

Quezon City Quezon City (, ; fil, Lungsod Quezon ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read in Filipino as Kyusi), is the List of cities in the Philippines, most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a populatio ...

, camera = , runtime = 30 minutes , network = ABC 5 , picture_format =

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, audio_format = Mono , first_aired = {{Start date, 2004, 04, 12 , last_aired = {{End date, 2008, 08, 08 , preceded_by = Balitang Balita (as early evening newscast)

Big News ''The Big News'' is the evening television news program of ABC 5. It was the first evening news program on Philippine television. It aired from March 19, 1962, to September 22, 1972. After the reopening of ABC 5 in 1992, Originally anchored by ...

(as late night newscast) , followed_by = TEN: The Evening News ''Sentro'' (Filipino word for "center") is a

Philippine television Television in the Philippines was introduced in October 1953 upon the first commercial broadcast made by Alto Broadcasting System (now ABS-CBN), making the Philippines the first Southeast Asian country and the second in Asia to do so. Even b ...

news broadcasting show broadcast by ABC 5. Originally anchored by John Susi and

Ali Sotto Ali Sotto (born Maria Aloha Leilani Sancianco Carag; May 29, 1961) is a Filipino singer before she become an actress, radio broadcaster and former news anchor. Her previous screen name was Aloha and now Ali Sotto. She is popularly heard on radio ...

it premiered on April 12, 2004, on the network's evening line up replacing Balitang Balita. The show concluded on August 8, 2008.

served as the final anchors. It was replaced by TEN: The Evening News in its timeslot.

History

The newscast premiered on April 12, 2004, replacing ''Balitang Balita''. It was first anchored by John Susi who was held over from its predecessor ''Balitang Balita'' and former actress Ali Sotto. Sotto that time was with contract with GMA Network under its radio arm DZBB. On October 2, 2006, the newscast exchanged timeslots with ''

'', the evening news program of the network. Susi and Sotto were replaced by

, who became the final anchor of the newscast. On June 25, 2007, ''Sentro'' was reformatted as an all-English newscast answering to Q's ''

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'', despite the retention of the name and some of the opening text and ending reminders still in Filipino. This used to be the language of ''

'' before its main language was changed to Filipino in 2004. On August 8, 2008, ''Sentro'', together with ''Big News'', aired its final broadcast; it is also the last program to be aired on ABC-5 before it signed off for the last time at around 10:00pm and rebranded the next day as TV5.

Anchors

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(2004–2006) *

(2006–2008)

Substitute anchors

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Sentro Logo.jpg, Sentro logo used from June 25, 2007 – March 7, 2008

History

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