ABS-CBN News

**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.

It serves the main ABS-CBN, the Regional Network Group, the UHF news, sports, lifestyle and entertainment channel A23, 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 (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. 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 Integrated News and Current Affairs Ging Reyes. It is further subdivided into different subgroups:

* Integrated News Operations Group, headed by Claude Vitug.

* News Gathering Group, headed by Dindo Amparo.

* Current Affairs Group, headed by Dondi Ocampo.

* News Production Group, headed by Marielle Gaceta-Catbagan.

* Investigative and Research Group, headed by Chi Almario-Gonzales.

* ABS-CBN News Channel, headed by Nadia Trinidad.

* Regional Network Group News and Current Affairs, headed Stanley Palisada.

* Global News Bureaus, headed by Alcuin Papa.

* ABS-CBN News Digital, headed by 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.

* 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.

## Programs

### Kapamilya Channel

* News Patrol

* Swak na Swak

* Rated Korina

* TV Patrol

* TV Patrol Weekend

* The World Tonight

### A2Z

* A2Z News Alert (temporary program only on Typhoon Ulysses update)

* Rated Korina

* Balitang A2Z

* AksyonTime

### ABS-CBN News Channel

* ANC Breaking News

* ANC Headlines

* ANC Live

* ANC Presents

* ANC Rundown

* After the Fact

* Asian Air Safari

* At The Table

* Chasing Flavors

* CHInoyTV

* Cityscape

* Dayaw

* Dateline Philippines

* Executive Class

* Galing Pook

* Graceful Living

* Headstart with Karen Davila

* Kerygma TV

* Local Legends

* LSS: The Martin Nievera Show

* Market Edge

* Modern Living TV

* Rev

* Show Me The Market

* State of the Art

* The Art Show

* The Boss

* The Game Changer Philippines

* The Wine Show

* The Word Exposed

* The World Tonight

* Top Story

### TeleRadyo

* Headline Pilipinas

* Kabayan

* Sakto

* Pasada sa Teleradyo

* TeleRadyo Balita

* TeleRadyo Balita Weekend

* Dateline Ngayon

### A23

* Frontline sa Umaga

* Headline Pilipinas

* Dateline Ngayon

* Frontline Tonight

### The Filipino Channel

* Adobo Nation

* Balitang America

* Balitang Global

* Citizen Pinoy

* Kwentong Disyerto

### A2Z Regional

* Balitang A2Z Regional

* Maayong Buntag ka-A2Z

## 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.

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. This campaign was kicked off on 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 TV5 - also have their own citizen journalism campaigns named YouScoop and News5 Everywhere, respectively.

Lopez, Inc. (56.53%) | ABS-CBN Holdings Corporation (37.61%) | Direct public ownership (6.61%) | Total public ownership (42.64%)

**Parent**
Lopez, Inc. (Lopez Holdings Corporation)

**Divisions**

**Subsidiaries**

**ABS-CBN Films**
Star Cinema | Black Sheep Productions | Quantum Films | TFC at the Movies

**TV Stations**
**Kapamilya Regional**
**A23 Regional**

**Television channels**
Analog/Digital free-to-air channels
A23 | Kapamilya Channel
Cable/Satellite channels
International channels

**Telecommunications and digital media**

**Licensed products**
ABS-CBN Publishing, Inc.

**Web TV**
iWant TFC | Kapamilya Online Live | Sky On Demand | Kabarkada Online Live

**YouTube Channels**

**Internet and Social Media**

**TV Productions and Partners**
CBN Asia | AMCARA Broadcasting Network

**Other**
Star Music | TNT Records | ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra

**Inactive**
Cinema One Premium HD

**Former TV Productions and Subsidiaries**
Probe Productions | TAPE Inc.

**Defunct**

**Inactive Radio networks**
ABS-CBN Radio

**Inactive TV Stations**
**ABS-CBN Regional**

**Inactive Television channels**
Analog free-to-air channels
ABS-CBN
Digital free-to-air channels

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