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. It is responsible for the daily news and information gathering and syndication of its news programs. The division is the Philippines largest news gathering and broadcast organisation and broadcasts on cable television, as well as online news through news.abs-cbn.com, which is the top news website in the country, as of November 2021. They are also the largest Filipino news organization internationally. It also maintains different foreign news bureaus and offices through ABS-CBN International, such as in North America, primarily in the United States and Canada; Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom, Hungary, and the Netherlands; Australia; Middle East, primarily in United Arab Emirates; different parts of Asia, such as Japan; and other parts of the world. It serves the main

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and its current ad-interim replacement

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and A2Z, the Regional Network Group (RNG), the former UHF channel

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(formerly Studio 23), the cable channels ANC and ABS-CBN TeleRadyo (formerly 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 ''

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'' on late nights, which is today the longest running English-language national newscast. Channel 9 followed suit with the long-running ''Newsbreak'' as well, joined later by ''Apat na Sulok ng Daigdig''. By 1968, following the aftermath of the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Casiguran (in which

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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

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District of Pasig. The new station broadcast its newscasts twice daily, Mondays to Saturdays, with a Sunday midday news program. Two months later, both ''Balita Ngayon'' and ''The World Tonight'' made their television returns on the now reopened TV network. In February 1987, ''Balita Ngayon'' aired its final broadcasts to give way to the now current flagship Filipino language broadcast, ''

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'', which begin in March 2, 1987.

Current affairs division

The division traces its roots to the current affairs and commentary programming that both DZAQ and later on DZXL and DZQL 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

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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

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(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. *

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, headed by Nadia Trinidad. * Regional News Bureaus, headed by Stanley Palisada. * Global News Bureaus, headed by Alcuin Papa. * ABS-CBN News Digital, headed by Lynda Jumilla. * ABS-CBN Weather Center is the

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division of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs. * TeleRadyo, formerly known as DZMM Radyo Patrol 630, is ABS-CBN's Filipino-language news channel headed by the 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

(ANC), the first and the only 24-hour

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news channel in the country. The division also operates a news website

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in partnership with ''

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''.

Programs

Currently aired

A2Z

*'' KBYN: Kaagapay ng Bayan'' *'' News Patrol'' *'' Rated Korina'' *''

'' *'' TV Patrol Weekend''

Kapamilya Channel

*'' KBYN: Kaagapay ng Bayan'' *'' News Patrol'' *'' Rated Korina'' *''

'' *'' TV Patrol Weekend'' *''

ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC)

TeleRadyo

* ''Headline Pilipinas'' * '' Kabayan'' * '' KBYN: Kaagapay ng Bayan'' * ''Sakto'' * ''Pasada sa TeleRadyo'' * ''TeleRadyo Balita''

The Filipino Channel (TFC)

*'' Citizen Pinoy'' *''TFC News''

Defunct programs

Regional programs

;Newscasts *''TV Patrol Bicol'' (ABS-CBN TV-11 Naga) *''TV Patrol Central Visayas'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Cebu) *''TV Patrol Chavacano'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Zamboanga) *''TV Patrol Eastern Visayas'' (ABS-CBN TV-2 Tacloban) *''TV Patrol Negros'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Bacolod) *''TV Patrol North Luzon'' (ABS-CBN TV-2 Isabela, ABS-CBN TV-7 Laoag, ABS-CBN TV-3 Baguio, ABS-CBN TV-32 Dagupan and ABS-CBN TV-46 Pampanga) *''TV Patrol North Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Cagayan de Oro and ABS-CBN TV-11 Butuan) *''TV Patrol Palawan'' (ABS-CBN TV-7 Palawan) *''TV Patrol Panay'' (ABS-CBN TV-10 Iloilo) *''TV Patrol South Central Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 General Santos and ABS-CBN TV-5 Cotab) *''TV Patrol Southern Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Davao) *''TV Patrol Southern Tagalog'' (ABS-CBN TV-10 Batangas) ;Regional news bulletins *''News Patrol Bicol'' (ABS-CBN TV-11 Naga) *''News Patrol Central Visayas'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Cebu) *''News Patrol Chavacano'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Zamboanga) *''News Patrol North Luzon'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Baguio and TV-32 Dagupan) *''News Patrol North Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Cagayan de Oro and TV-11 Butuan) *''News Patrol Palawan'' (ABS-CBN TV-7 Palawan) *''News Patrol South Central Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN 3 General Santos and ABS-CBN 5 Cotabato) *''News Patrol Southern Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Davao) *''TV Patrol Panay News Advisory'' (ABS-CBN TV-10 Iloilo) ;Other regional programs *''Bagong Morning Kapamilya'' (ABS-CBN TV-2 Isabela, ABS-CBN TV-7 Laoag, ABS-CBN TV-3 Baguio and ABS-CBN TV-32 Dagupan) *''Maayong Buntag Kapamilya'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 Cebu) **''Maayong Buntag Kapamilya Sabado'' *''Maayong Buntag Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Davao and ABS-CBN TV-3 Zamboanga) **''Maayong Buntag Mindanao Sabado'' **''Buenos Días Zamboanga'' *''Magandang Umaga South Central Mindanao'' (ABS-CBN TV-3 General Santos) *''Marhay na Aga Kapamilya'' (ABS-CBN TV-11 Naga) *''Maupay nga Aga Kapamilya'' (ABS-CBN TV-2 Tacloban) *''Pamahaw Espesyal'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Cagayan de Oro) *''Panay Sikat'' (ABS-CBN TV-10 Iloilo) **''Panay Sikat Sabado'' *''The Morning Show'' (ABS-CBN TV-4 Bacolod)

iPatrol Mo!

ABS-CBN News launched its own

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campaign during its coverage of the 2007 Philippine General Elections. Initially entitled ' (

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for ''Your Vote, You Patrol''), it reflects upon the station's flagship newscast, ''

''. The campaign is now called ' (''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

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. For 2013, the campaign evolves to ''BMPM: Tayo Na!'' (

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

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and MMS technologies, BMPM has provided more venues for "Bayan Patrollers" - people who submit reports to BMPM - through its digital and social media presences, including it
Facebook
account
Twitter
account, and its redesigne
website
(where people could upload their reports through the website's "Submit" page or through using the

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#BMPMTayoNa). BMPM also comes as a feature in two mobile apps - ABS-CBNnews.com's and

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's - which are present in iOS, Android, and

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. The network's two main competitors - GMA and TV5 - also have their own

campaigns named ''YouScoop'' and ''News5 Everywhere'', respectively.

References

External links

ABS-CBN Official Website

ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs Official Website

ABS-CBN News Channel Official Website

DZMM Official Website

patrol.ph
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