Maria Perpetua Concepcion Del Rosario-Escudero (born December 8, 1975), professionally known as Connie Sison (), is a

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broadcast journalist, reporter, host and news anchor. She is best known for being the news anchor of '' Balitanghali'' on GMA News TV now ( GTV), being one of the hosts of

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's morning show ''

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'', and ''

Pinoy M.D. ''Pinoy M.D.'' is a Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Connie Sison, David Ampil II, Raul Quillamor, Oyie Balburias and Jean Marquez, it premiered on June 12, 2010. Premise The show provides information ...

''. She also hosts the radio version of ''Pinoy M.D.'', ''Pinoy M.D. sa Dobol B'' that airs on DZBB. Her hosting skills in ''Pinoy M.D.'' got her a Bantog award for Media Practitioner in Television given by Department of Science and Technology in 2018.

Television career

In 1997, Sison's first job was being a field reporter at

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(now

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's sister network owned by

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, and SNN (later rebranded as

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). ABS-CBN promoted her after 8 months and she became a reporter for hard news in ''

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''. Later on, Sison became an anchor of ''La Niña Watch'', a program that focused on

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, and she was also included in '' Hoy Gising!'', ABS-CBN's public service show. In 2001, Sison was included in ABS-CBN's morning program '' Alas Singko Y Medya'' as one of the show's hosts. Sison also hosted a

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program called ''Kakasa Ka Ba?'' that she co-hosted with JV Villar. In 2006, she exited ABS-CBN through a retirement package. Sison moved to RPN 9 in the same year while awaiting for her non-compete clause to end. The only considered rival network of ABS-CBN at that time was

. Sison anchored evening newscast '' NewsWatch Aksyon Balita'' with

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and Aljo Bendijo as their co-anchors for a year. In 2007, as soon as her non-compete clause contract ended in ABS-CBN, Sison continued her career in

. She was entrust to do several news and current affairs shows in GMA's main channel and its secondary network, Q Channel 11, which was later rebranded as GMA News TV. Among those shows were '' DoQmentaries'' (a monthly documentary program), '' News on Q'', '' On Call: Siksik Sa Impormasyon. Bilis na Pag-Aksyon,'' and '' Balitanghali'' (a daily noon newscast on GMA News TV which she co-hosted with

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). In GMA's main channel, she is one of the hosts of the morning program ''

''. She also hosts the medical-focused show ''

'', which got a radio version in DZBB (GMA's flagship radio station) and officially titled as ''Pinoy M.D. sa Dobol B''. In 2018, she is the very first recipient of the Bantog award for Media Practitioner in Television given by Department of Science and Technology as a result of her hosting of ''Pinoy M.D.'' She was also rewarded with a P 100,000 cash, which she opted to give to the Kapuso Foundation as a donation. In 2020, her professionalism in her work was tested when she interviewed Senator Richard Gordon and she was unpleasantly interrupted by Gordon in the midst of the interview. Despite the situation, Sison remained calm and some

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s condemned Gordon's actions as being rude and lauded Sison's composure.

Personal life

Connie Sison was born as Maria Perpetua Concepcion Del Rosario on December 8, 1975 in

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, Philippines. She attended Maryknoll College during her elementary years. In college, she took up BS Psychology in

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and graduated. Aside from being a broadcast journalist, she does painting as a hobby. She is married to entrepreneur Christopher James Escudero and they have three daughters. Filipino actor Martin del Rosario is her nephew (Martin's father is Connie's older brother, Robert del Rosario). Sison was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and tried to confront the disease through doing exercise and proper diet.

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