Big News
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Big News was a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by ABC. Originally anchored by Duds Rivera and Bong Lapira, it aired from March 19, 1962 to September 22, 1972. The newscasts returned on February 24, 1992. The show concluded on August 8, 2008. Cherie Mercado served as the final anchor.[1]
History
1962–1972; First incarnation
The Big News was originally anchored by Duds Rivera and Bong Lapira[2] with Antonio Tecson as head of the newsroom. Lapira later left the newscast in 1967 to transfer to ABS-CBN to anchor Newsbreak on DZXL-TV Channel 9 and he was replaced by Jose Mari Velez.[3] The show first aired on March 19, 1962, and went off the air on September 22, 1972 due to martial law.[4]
1992–2004; Second incarnation
On February 24, 1992, three days after ABC returned to the airwaves, the program resumed its telecast,[4] but this time, it was anchored by Tina Monzon-Palma. On September 14 of that year, she was joined by Eric Eloriaga and later Kathy Tanco-Ong on March 1, 1993. Tanco-Ong would later bow out of the newscast in 1995. In 1997, they were replaced by Anthony Pangilinan and Thelma Dumpit-Murillo, who also anchors the network's early evening Filipino newscast Balitang Balita as its new anchors. On March 2, 1998, Janice Pronstoller joined the newscast replacing Pangilinan following the birth of his son Donny Pangilinan. Monzon-Palma went to become the anchor of ABS-CBN's late night newscast The World Tonight while Eloriaga became the anchor of RPN's NewsWatch, both newscast's main rivals during pre-Martial Law days.
On May 3, 1999, Amelyn Veloso became the new anchor of the newscast together Rod Nepomuceno as her co-anchor, replacing Pangilinan, Pronstroller, and Dumpit-Murillo. On June 3, 2002, Nepomuceno was replaced by Atty. Mike Toledo.
2004–2008; Big News
On April 12, 2004, when the network reformatted most of its programs, former ABS-CBN anchor Cherie Mercado, joining with Veloso as co-anchor and the newscast switched to Filipino in order to compete with the other networks' newscasts.
On October 2, 2006, the newscast exchanged timeslots with Sentro, the early-evening news program of the network.
On August 8, 2008, the program, together with Sentro aired its final broadcast and on the next day (August 9), the station was rebranded as TV5.
Anchors
- Duds Rivera (1962–72)
- Bong Lapira (1962–67)
- Jose Mari Velez (1967–72)
- Eric Eloriaga (1992–97)
- Tina Monzon-Palma (1992–97)
- Kathy Tanco-Ong (1993–95)
- Anthony Pangilinan (1997–98)
- Thelma Dumpit-Murillo (1997–99)
- Janice Pronstroller (1998–99)
- Amelyn Veloso (1999[5]–2006)
- Rod Nepomuceno (1999–2002)
- Atty. Mike Toledo (2002–04)
- Cherie Mercado (2004–08)
Substitute anchors
- Vivian Zalvidea
- Atty. Joseph Andres
- Jove Francisco
- Martin Andanar
References
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See also
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- TV5 (Philippine TV network) news shows
- TV5 (Philippine TV network) original programming
- 1960s Philippine television series
- 1970s Philippine television series
- 1990s Philippine television series
- 1962 Philippine television series debuts
- 1972 Philippine television series endings
- 1992 Philippine television series debuts
- 2008 Philippine television series endings
- Philippine English-language television shows
- Filipino-language television shows