Ted Failon at DJ Chacha sa Radyo5

## Program Information

### Genre

News, public affairs, investigative journalism, commentary, Talkback, Infotainment, Music

## Release

### Original network

TV5
92.3 Radyo5 True FM
One PH

### Broadcast from

October 5, 2020-present

***Ted Failon at DJ Chacha sa Radyo5*** is a Philippine morning infotainment radio program hosted by Ted Failon and Czarina Balba-Guevara a.k.a. DJ Chacha that airs on weekdays from 6:00 am to 10:00 am. It started broadcast on 92.3 Radyo5 True FM since October 5, 2020.

The program is simulcast on TV5 from 6:00 am to 7:30am (until February 19, 2021; resumed on October 4) and on One PH from 6:00 to 10:00 am, except during severe weather coverage when all three outlets carry the show in its entirety, Allied Broadcasting Center-owned 104.7 Ka-Boses Radio Tacloban and 99.9 Ka-Boses Radio Ormoc City, both located in Failon's home province of Leyte also airs the program through a syndication agreement since October 19, 2020.

A distinct feature of *Ted Failon at DJ Chacha* and its lineal predecessors is Failon's usage of music and sound effects while anchoring the program, but added entertainment segments catering to celebrity interviews, comedy, love advice, free money contests, and music requests under the current format, mirroring the practice of South Korean morning infotainment shows.

## Overview

On September 2, media reports surfaced that Failon, Balba-Guevara and his program staff are to transfer to Radyo5 92.3 News FM, a news and public affairs FM radio station owned by TV5 Network's affiliate, Nation Broadcasting Corporation for his own radio program on the station, it was later made official on September 11.

Contrary to first reports of the premiere date being set on September 21, 2020, it was pushed back to October 5. Preliminary information from network-level arrangements further disclosed that the program would double its airtime to four hours, with the first half allotted for news and the remaining half will be modeled after Failon's original commentary style while he was with DZMM.

Further details from the network-level arrangements were made official on the program's virtual media conference held on October 1, 2020, including the first disclosure of giving away cash prizes to lucky listeners and interviews with newsmakers. Balba-Guevarra stated that the program would be the "2.0" of their previous show.

*Ted Failon at DJ Chacha* premiered on October 5, 2020 at 6:00 am, replacing Orly Mercado and Cheryl Cosim's *Early All Ready* and prompting *Boljak!* hosted by attorneys Bruce Rivera and Jess Falcis to move to an evening timeslot as lead-out programming after Radyo5's simulcast of *Frontline Pilipinas* until its final broadcast on New Year's Eve.

The program was simulcast from 6:00 am to 7:30 a.m. on TV5 and initially ran 6:00 - 9:00 am on One PH, rendering it as TV5's first morning show since *Aksyon sa Umaga*, which ended in 2017. It also added segments catering to celebrity interviews (*Good Morning Lodi*), comedy (*Make Us Laugh*), love advice (*Dear Ted and Cha*, discontinued after November 12, 2020), live phone-in musical requests (*Music By Request*) and free phone-in money contests (*Hula-Hits*) - mirroring the format of South Korean morning drive-time infotainment shows such as Jang Sung-kyu's *Good Morning FM* of MBC FM4U, Kim Young-chul's *Power FM* of SBS Power FM and Kim Tae-hoon's *Freeway* of KBS Happy FM, making it the pioneer Philippine radio (and television) program to adopt the practice. During severe weather coverage, the show would break format and simulcast proceedings in its entirety on all platforms, such happened during the station's November 12, 2020 coverage of Typhoon Vamco, locally known as Typhoon Ulysses.

On October 19, 2020, the program began to be broadcast in Failon's home province of Leyte through a syndication agreement with Allied Broadcasting Center-owned 104.7 Ka-Boses Radio Tacloban and 99.9 Ka-Boses Radio Ormoc City; the move was formally acknowledged by the hosts on its October 23 broadcast.

Further changes on the program began on January 4, 2021, when it added motivational speaker and wealth and life coach Chinkee Tan for his own segment *Chink Time: Learn and Earn*. On January 11, the cable and satellite simulcast on One PH permanently expanded to include the entire 4-hour airtime of the program partly due to insistent viewer request and entry of the station's new management from Cignal and PhilStar. Prior to the expansion, the 9:00 am hour of the radio show was pre-empted by *Mag-Badyet Tayo!*, hosted by Tan and Christine Bersola-Babao except on select days when Tan was unavailable. The program itself moved to the 10:00 am slot on the same day.

The March 11, 2021 episode acknowledged the simulcast of inactive yet still NBC-owned DXTY 101.1 News FM Zamboanga.

The TV5 simulcast of *Ted Failon at DJ Chacha sa Radyo5* ended on February 19, 2021 to give way to an expanded TV5 Kids programming block and the launch of Frontline sa Umaga on May 10, 2021. It resumed airing on October 4, along with former One PH show Mag-Badyet Tayo, with an shortened airtime of 30 minutes; as Frontline sa Umaga moved to the timeslot of now-defunct Idol in Action.

Since May 20, the *Think About It* segment was expanded to digital streaming service Spotify. It marks Failon's expansion to digital platform.

## Hosts

### Main hosts

* Ted Failon (2020–present)
* Czarina Balba-Guevara (2020–present)

### Segment anchors

* Pastor Jeff Eliscupidez (*The Daily Brad Devotions*, 2020–present)
* Chinkee Tan (*It's Chink Time: Learn and Earn*, 2021–present)

## Current segments

Upon the program's transfer to Radyo5 92.3 News FM, it debuted the following interactive segments, unless noted otherwise.

* ***Hula-Hits*** - a phone-in segment where listeners try to guess the first (or second) song leading-off the broadcast at 6:00 a.m. The lucky caller wins PHP2,000 if guessed correctly. The rules were revised in April where contestants would now try to guess the titles of all songs played on the broadcast.
* ***Think About It*** is Failon's long-form editorial about a national issue. During the first two weeks of the program, it served as a lead-out after *Radyo5 Network News* but exchanged spots with *The Daily Brad* to become the lead-in before the show's fourth hour. Since May 20, the segments were expanded and exported to Spotify.
* ***Dear Cha*** -
* ***Good Morning Lodi*** - caters to celebrity interviews. By December 2020, it expanded to include newsworthy successful entrepreneurs
* ***The Daily Brad Devotions*** - morning religious devotion with segment anchor Pastor Jeff Eliscupidez from Victory, serving as lead-out segment after *Radyo5 Network News* since October 19, 2020.
* ***Make Us Laugh*** - a phone-in segment where two callers would try to make the hosts laugh through jokes in 60 seconds and they are later voted upon by listeners. The winner of the vote wins ₱2,000 and since October 19, 2020, additional free SatLite digi-boxes and three-month prepaid load.
* ***Music By-Request*** - phone-in segment where listeners request a song to be played immediately by the hosts.
* ***Ito ang Trending*** - rundown of social media posts garnering significant attention in the past 24 hours. Its own segment theme song is 4Minute's "Hot Issue".
* ***Chink Time: Learn and Earn*** (since January 2021) - financial and motivational tips, presented by Chinkee Tan.
* ***Kaninong Boses Ito*** - a phone-in segment where the listener guesses the person speaking on a news soundbyte. The winner wins PHP2,000 for guessing the person correctly.