ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs

ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, known on-air as ABS-CBN News (formerly known as ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs), is the news and current affairs programming division of ABS-CBN. The organization is responsible for the daily news and information gathering of its news programs.

ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs
Division ofABS-CBN
CountryPhilippines
Area servedWorldwide
Key people
  • Ging Reyes (Head, Integrated New and Current Affairs and Managing Director, ABS-CBN News Channel)
  • Claude Vitug (Head, Integrated News Operations)
  • Dindo Amparo (Head, Integrated News Gathering Group)
  • Dondi Ocampo (Head, News, Variety, Infotainment and Talk [Ecosystem 1])
  • Marielle Gaceta-Catbagan (Head, Integrated News Production Group)
  • Chi Almario-Gonzales (Head, Investigative and Research Group)
  • Ces Oreña-Drilon (Acquisition Content Head, Lifestyle Ecosystem)
  • Lynda Jumilla (Executive Editor, ABS-CBN News Digital)
  • Nadia Trinidad (Chief Operating Officer, ABS-CBN News Channel)
  • Stanley Palisada (Head, Bureaus and Regional Network Group News)
  • Alcuin Papa (Head, Global News Bureaus)
  • Marah Faner-Capuyan (Station Manager, DZMM Radyo Patrol 630)
HeadquartersABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Sgt. Esguerra Avenue corner Mother Ignacia Street, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
SloganIn The Service of the Filipino
Magka-Kapamilya, Maglilingkod sa Isa’t Isa
Language
Websitenews.abs-cbn.com

It serves the main ABS-CBN, the Regional Network Group, the UHF sports channel S+A, the cable channels ANC and DZMM TeleRadyo, the international channel TFC, the flagship radio station DZMM and the regional radio networks DYAP 765 Palawan, DYAB 1512 Cebu and DXAB 1296 Davao and news websites news.abs-cbn.com and patrol.ph.

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 changed its corporate name to ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation in 1967 and ABS-CBN Corporation in 2010), 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 City (opened in 1958).

Proper news programming on TV, however, would begin in 1960 when news coverage for the national elections began, followed by the first Filipino-language TV newscast, Balita Ngayon, in 1966 on Channel 3 and in the following year with the English-language newscast The World Tonight on late nights, which is today the longest running English-language national newscast. Channel 9 followed suit with the long-running Newsbreak as well. By 1968, following the aftermath of the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Casiguran (in which Manila was severely affected by the quake), leading to the collapse of the Ruby Tower 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 Orly Mercado, veteran broadcaster Joe Taruc, 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 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 Ortigas Center District of Pasig City. The new station broadcast its newscasts twice daily, Mondays to Saturdays, with a Sunday midday news program.

Current affairs division

The division traces its roots to the current affairs and commentary programming that both DZAQ and later on DZXL aired beginning in the mid-1950s in both Filipino and English, keeping listeners informed of the latest issues that affect Filipinos.

Divisions

The division operates mainly and headquartered at ABS-CBN Broadcast Complex in Quezon City 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 (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 long-time journalist and former ABS-CBN's North America Bureau Chief, and now ABS-CBN's Senior Vice President for News and Current Affairs Ging Reyes. It is further subdivided into different subgroups:

  • Integrated News Operations Group, headed by veteran ABS-CBN journalist and former DZMM Radyo Patrol Sais Trenta reporter, Claude Vitug.
  • News Gathering Group, headed by veteran ABS-CBN journalist, former DZMM Radyo Patrol Sais Trenta reporter and former Middle East News Bureau chief, Dindo Amparo.
  • Current Affairs Group, headed by experienced news department staff, Dondi Ocampo.
  • News Production Group, headed by Marielle Gaceta-Catbagan.
  • Investigative and Research Group, headed by experienced news department staff and former reporter for Manila Standard Today, Chi Almario-Gonzales.
  • ABS-CBN News Channel, headed by its Chief Operating Officer and veteran ABS-CBN News correspondent and former ABS-CBN News North America Bureau Chief, Nadia Trinidad.
  • Regional Network Group News and Current Affairs, headed by television journalist and former Head of News for ABS-CBN Iloilo, Stanley Palisada.
  • Global News Bureaus, headed by Alcuin Papa.
  • ABS-CBN News Digital, headed by its executive editor and veteran ABS-CBN journalist, former senior political correspondent and former ABS-CBN News chief of reporters, Lynda Jumilla.
  • ABS-CBN Weather Center is the weather forecasting division of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs.
  • DZMM Radyo Patrol 630, ABS-CBN's flagship AM radio station headed by station manager, Marah Faner-Capuyan.
  • DZMM TeleRadyo, ABS-CBN's flagship AM radio station on Television headed by station manager, Marah Faner-Capuyan.
  • DocuCentral is the producer of highly acclaimed documentaries shown on ABS-CBN's platforms.

Aside from regular programming, it also operates the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC), the first and the only 24-hour English language news channel in the country. The division also operates a news website ABS-CBNnews.com in partnership with BusinessMirror.

Logo used from 2000 to 2013.

Programs

Currently aired

ABS-CBN

ABS-CBN News Channel

TeleRadyo

S+A

The Filipino Channel

Regional programs
Newscasts
Main article: TV Patrol § TV Patrol on ABS-CBN Regional Network Group
Regional news bulletins
Main article: News Patrol § Regional editions
  • 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 4 Cagayan de Oro and TV-11 Butuan)
  • News Patrol Palawan (ABS-CBN TV-7 Palawan)
  • News Patrol South Central Mindanao (ABS-CBN 3 General Santos and ABS-CBN 5 Cotabato)
  • News Patrol Southern Mindanao (ABS-CBN TV-4 Davao)
  • TV Patrol Panay News Advisory (ABS-CBN TV-10 Iloilo)
Other regional programs

Defunct programs
Main articles: List of programs aired by ABS-CBN § ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, List of programs shown on the ABS-CBN News Channel § Previously shown, and List of programs aired by ABS-CBN Sports and Action § News

iPatrol Mo!

ABS-CBN News launched its own citizen journalism campaign during its coverage of the 2007 Philippine General Elections. Initially entitled Boto Mo, iPatrol Mo! (Tagalog for Your Vote, You Patrol), it reflects upon the station's flagship newscast, TV Patrol. The campaign is now called Bayan Mo, iPatrol Mo! (Your Town, You Patrol) and is often abbreviated as BMPM.[2]

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! (Tagalog for Let's Go!) as its citizen journalism arm for the network's coverage of the 2013 Elections.[3] This campaign was kicked off last June 12, 2012.

What once started out as an arm that is mainly dependent on using SMS and MMS technologies, BMPM has provided more venues for "Patrollers" - people who submit reports to BMPM - through its digital and social media presences, including its Facebook account, Twitter account, and its redesigned website (where people could upload their reports through the website's "Submit" page or through using the Hashtag #BMPMTayoNa). BMPM also comes as a feature in two mobile apps - ABS-CBNnews.com's and COMELEC's - which are present in iOS, Android, and Windows.

The network's two main competitors - GMA and 5 - also have their own citizen journalism campaigns named YouScoop and News5 Everywhere, respectively.

See also

References
  1. "ABS-CBN's 'Bandila' earns Emmy nomination". ABS-CBN News. 2007-08-22.
  2. ABS-CBN launches Boto Mo, I-Patrol Mo: Ako Ang Simula ABS-CBN News (May 10, 2009). Retrieved on March 15, 2019.
  3. Rosalinda L. Orosa (March 21, 2013). Bayan Mo, iPatrol Mo: Moving for change Philstar. Retrieved on March 15, 2019.
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