Big News

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Big News
Big News logo 2008.jpg
Final titlecard of Big News in 2008
Genre News program
Live action
Created by Associated Broadcasting Company
Directed byRosario Andres
Presented by
Country of originPhilippines
Original languages
  • English (1962–72 and 1992–2004)
  • Tagalog (2004–08)
Production
Executive producersSonny Fernandez
Jackie Sierda
Production locationsABC 5 Studio B, Novaliches, Quezon City
Running time30 minutes
Production company ABC News and Public Affairs
Original release
Network ABC 5
ReleaseMarch 19, 1962 (1962-03-19) 
September 22, 1972 (1972-09-22)
ReleaseFebruary 24, 1992 (1992-02-24) 
August 8, 2008 (2008-08-08)

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]

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History

First incarnation (1962–1972)

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 1962, and went off the air in 1972 due to martial law. [4]

Second incarnation (1992–2004)

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 and Eric Eloriaga. On March 1, 1993, they were joined by Kathy Tanco-Ong. However, Tanco-Ong would later bow out of the newscast in 1995. On May 5, 1997, they were replaced by Thelma Dumpit-Murillo and Anthony Pangilinan. On March 2, 1998, Janice Pronstoller joined the newscast. 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, replacing Dumpit-Murillo and Pangilinan. On May 22, 2000, Veloso was joined by Rod Nepomuceno as her co-anchor. On June 3, 2002, Nepomuceno was replaced by Atty. Mike Toledo.

Big News (2004–2008)

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.

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