Samar, formerly named as Western Samar, is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is the city of Catbalogan. It is bordered by Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Leyte and the Leyte Gulf, and includes several islands in the Samar Sea. Samar is connected to the island of Leyte via the San Juanico Bridge.
TV Patrol is a Philippine television newscast broadcast by ABS-CBN. It premiered on March 2, 1987, replacing Balita Ngayon. TV Patrol is the flagship national newscast of the network and is the longest-running Filipino language evening newscast. The newscast is anchored by Noli de Castro, Bernadette Sembrano, and Henry Omaga-Diaz. Previous anchors include Mel Tiangco, Korina Sanchez, Julius Babao, and Ted Failon.
TV Patrol Panay was the local news program of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Iloilo City. This tabloid-format news program was aired across the region of Western Visayas, except Bacolod and Negros Occidental which was served by TV Patrol Negros, and globally through The Filipino Channel. TV Patrol Panay was broadcast in the local Hiligaynon language. It is aired live from the ABS-CBN News Center Iloilo at 5:00 PM from Monday to Friday, simulcast on ABS-CBN TV-21 Roxas. It replayed at 9:30 pm on ANC. It also delivered news throughout the day via TV Patrol Panay News Advisory bulletins.
TV Patrol Southern Mindanao was the local news program of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Davao City, Philippines. It was the most watched news program in Davao City and Davao Region. The newscast was a tabloid-style format and delivers news headlines about the current events in Southern Mindanao.
News Patrol is an hourly news bulletin of ABS-CBN which replaced ABS-CBN News Advisory. The news bulletin was suspended on May 5, 2020 after ABS-CBN was forced to cease and desist its free TV broadcasting operations given by the order of the NTC. On May 8, 2020, News Patrol continued broadcast on cable channels TeleRadyo, ANC, Cine Mo!, TFC, online via ABS-CBN News' website, Facebook, YouTube and iWant TFC. It also served as the main newscast for Kapamilya Channel until it was replaced by a TV Patrol simulcast.
TV Patrol Central Visayas was the local news program of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Central Visayas. It was the most watched news program in Metro Cebu and Central Visayas as well as Bohol, Negros Oriental and Siquijor. The program delivers news headlines about the current events in Central Visayas. It used to be aired live daily from the ABS-CBN Newscenter Cebu at 5:00 PM, from Monday to Friday. It was also seen on Channel 9 Bohol and Channel 12 Dumaguete and on radio through DYAB Radyo Patrol 1512 Cebu, MOR 97.1 For Life! Cebu. It was simulcasted through DYAB Teleradyo on Sky Cable Cebu Community Channel 53. After the non-renewal of ABS-CBN's broadcast franchise, TVPCV aired its newscast via its official Facebook page, ABS-CBN Regional's YouTube channel and iWant. It also aired news bulletins called News Patrol Central Visayas airing several times a day every weekdays.
DYSS-TV, channel 7, is a commercial VHF television station owned and operated by GMA Network Inc.. Its studios and offices are located at the GMA Skyview Complex, Nivel Hills, Apas, Cebu City, while its transmitter facilities is situated at Mt. Busay, Brgy. Bonbon, Cebu City.
TV Patrol Chavacano was the local news program of ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Zamboanga Peninsula that aired on ABS-CBN TV-3 Zamboanga with simulcast on TV-10 Jolo. TV Patrol Chavacano delivers news from Zamboanga City and the Zamboanga Peninsula region along with the former Western Mindanao provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. Jewel Reyes was the main anchor of this newscast since 2017 after she became a reporter. It also produces its bulletin version News Patrol Chavacano airing several times a day every weekdays.
Maayong Buntag Kapamilya (MBK)/(Tagalog: Magandang Umaga Kapamilya; English: Good Morning Kapamilya) was the second regional morning show of ABS-CBN Cebu that dishes out the daily dose of fresh news, upbeat discussions of the current community affairs and special features teeming with the local flavors of Cebu City and Province, Bohol, Siquijor, Dumaguete and most of Negros Oriental.
Balitang Bisdak is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by GMA Cebu. Originally anchored by Bobby Nalzaro, it premiered on October 4, 1999. Nalzaro, Cecille Quibod-Castro and Alan Domingo currently serve as the anchors.
TV Patrol Negros was the local news program of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in the Negros Island Region. The newscast was a tabloid-style format. The program delivers news headlines in the Hiligaynon language about the current events in Bacolod and Negros Occidental, as it was removed from Western Visayas to form the Negros Island Region along with Negros Oriental from Central Visayas in 2015, but the region was now disestablished and made defunct since 2017.
TV Patrol South Central Mindanao is a local news program of ABS-CBN Regional Network Group delivering news reports on current events happening in South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani & General Santos City (Soccsksargen) and since 2018 Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur and North Cotabato, in Filipino while other languages such as Cebuano and Ilonggo spoken by the interviewees.
DYTC, broadcasting as MOR 94.3 For Life!, was a radio station owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studio is located at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, 5th Floor, Uytingkoc Bldg., Avenida Veteranos St., Tacloban.
DYAB was a commercial television station of Philippine television network ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studio is located at ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, 5/F Uytingkoc Bldg., Avenida Veteranos, Tacloban City and the transmitter is located at Mt. Naga-Naga, Tacloban City. On November 8 to December 23, 2013, ABS-CBN Tacloban went off the air for the first time in six weeks because of the landfall of Typhoon Haiyan, which damaged ABS-CBN's equipment, its transmitter and the building. It only resumed operations on December 23, 2013, after power was restored in the city and ABS-CBN bought new equipment for DYAB-TV prior to Christmas.
Waray is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern Visayas. It is the native language of the Waray people and second language of the Abaknon people of Capul, Northern Samar and some Cebuano-speaking peoples of eastern and southern parts of Leyte island. It is the third most spoken language among the Bisayan languages, only behind Cebuano and Hiligaynon.
Eastern Visayas is an administrative region in the Philippines, designated as Region VIII. It consists of three main islands, Samar, Leyte and Biliran. The region has six provinces, one independent city and one highly urbanized city namely, Biliran, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar, Eastern Samar, Southern Leyte, Ormoc and Tacloban. The highly urbanized city of Tacloban is the sole regional center. These provinces and cities occupy the easternmost islands of the Visayas group of islands.
ABS-CBN Regional Channel was a Philippine pay television channel which aired programming from the regional television and radio stations owned by ABS-CBN. The channel was launched as a test broadcast on 1 August 2016, and was officially launched on 15 March 2017.
Regional TV Weekend News is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by GMA News TV, GMA Network and GTV. It premiered on July 27, 2019 on GMA News TV and on March 21, 2020 on GMA Network. The show concluded on GMA Network on April 25, 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Visayas is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus reached Eastern Visayas on March 23, 2020, when the first case of the disease was confirmed in Northern Samar.
Stephany Uy-Tan is a Filipino politician who served as mayor of Catbalogan, Samar for two consecutive terms.
