TV Patrol North Luzon
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Created by | ABS-CBN Regional Network Group |
Developed by | ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs |
Starring | Cris Zuñiga (Dagupan) Dhobie de Guzman (Baguio) Grace Alba (Laoag) Harris Julio (Isabela) |
Country of origin | Philippines |
Original languages | Filipino Ilocano (interviewees only) |
No. of episodes | n/a (airs daily) |
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Running time | 40 minutes |
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Network | ABS-CBN TV-3 Baguio ABS-CBN TV-32 Dagupan |
Release | January 27, 1997 present | –
TV Patrol North Luzon (previously known as TV Patrol Baguio TV Patrol Northern Luzon) is a local news program of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Northern and Central Luzon. The newscast is done in a tabloid-style format. It delivers the most recent news and current affairs issues in Filipino language.
It airs live at 5:00 PM from Monday to Friday, and is broadcast on all ABS-CBN Regional transmitters in Cordillera, Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, and most of Central Luzon; with radio simulcasts via MOR 103.1 Baguio and its relay station 91.3 MHz in Santiago, Isabela.
The newscast is primarily anchored by Dhobie de Guzman, Cris Zuñiga, Grace Alba, and Harris Julio; together with a team of ABS-CBN reporters through its regional bureaus in Baguio City, Dagupan City, Laoag, Ilocos Norte and Santiago, Isabela. Reports and studio presentation originate in their respective newsrooms, but master control now originates from Baguio.
Since June 2018, the newscast is also broadcast via ABS-CBN Baguio's digital signal.[1]
History
As TV Patrol Baguio and TV Patrol Northern Luzon
As part of the expansion of regional operations, the newscast premiered on January 27, 1997 as TV Patrol Baguio. This is the second regional edition of TV Patrol in Luzon after TV Patrol Naga (now TV Patrol Bicol), which was launched in 1996. Two years after, TV Patrol Dagupan was launched then on DWEC-TV Channel 3. Airing for an hour beginning that year up to 2006, the two regional newscasts aired back-to-back bringing the latest news stories each for their respective coverage areas with Jonathan Ortega and Aljo Trinidad (from TV Patrol North Mindanao) as the first presenters, respectively, for the Baguio and Dagupan editions. In 2006, with the frequency change to channel 32, the Dagupan edition was transformed into TV Patrol North Central Luzon, which now serves as the local news broadcast for Pangasinan, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Zambales and Aurora, and by now broadcasting at 5pm, the same time as its Baguio counterpart. The five provinces used to carry the broadcast of TV Patrol Northern Luzon.
The news program offers several segments such as "Sari-Sari" for human interest stories, "RX Patrol" for health issues, Pulis Patrol for police and crime reports. Add to that the revival of the segment "Alam Ba News?" which tackles about everything under the sun with suggested topics from viewers.
On September 16, 2013, TV Patrol Northern Luzon reformatted their logo, opening titles, and graphics similar to the main newscast.
On June 19, 2017, TV Patrol Northern Luzon updated its logo and graphics and its lower thirds thus were changed to Gotham font to match the national TV Patrol. This is the thirteenth newscast to update its graphics, similar to the national newscast.
Expansion as TV Patrol North Luzon
On June 29, 2018, as a cost-cutting measure to digitalize its stations aligning with Channel 2 Manila,[2] ABS-CBN Regional announced that TV Patrol Northern Luzon, together with TV Patrol North Central Luzon, TV Patrol Cagayan Valley and TV Patrol Ilocos will be merged to TV Patrol North Luzon. The merger of newscasts further extended the newscast's coverage over the entire Northern and Central Luzon, including Ilocos and Cagayan Valley regions. All four newscasts ended their broadcasts on June 29, 2018 in preparation for the debut of the expanded pan-regional newscast for these areas.
The newscast was launched in July 2, with a unique OBB different from the national newscast and majority of its regional counterparts (also adopted by TV Patrol North Mindanao and TV Patrol South Central Mindanao, both of which were launched on the same day). TV Patrol North Luzon is anchored in four locations with a unique 4-presenter format (similar to the national edition from 1987 to 1995, sister station DZMM's Headline Pilipinas and GMA Davao's One Mindanao during its first months on air and GMA Western Visayas's One Western Visayas), with Dhobie de Guzman presenting from ABS-CBN Baguio, Cris Zuñiga from ABS-CBN Dagupan, Grace Alba from ABS-CBN Laoag, and Harris Julio from ABS-CBN Isabela. Although studio presentation remained in operation for all affected regions, master control was centralised to the Baguio City news center. Also, while being simulcast on DZRR-FM in Baguio and DWAI-FM in Santiago City, the newscast did not hook up on the MOR FM stations in Dagupan (DWEC) and Laoag (DWEL-FM).
Since August 21, 2018, TV Patrol North Luzon included news reports from Pampanga, a separate television market currently served by DWIN-TV 46 but receives signals from the North Central Luzon sub-opt relays. The province's station was one of the network's former originating outlets, where it produced its own local newscast TV Patrol Pampanga until it was axed on June 29. Currently, the Pampanga bureau scaled back news production by introducing short News Patrol bulletins throughout the day delivered in the Kapampangan dialect; however, Pampanga news reports are produced in Filipino for the North Luzon newscast, as well as integration of these to the national newscast.
Awards
The news program won the 31st Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) for Best News Program.[citation needed] It had beaten TV Patrol, Bandila, and 24 Oras. The program was also nominated for Best News Program in the recent[when?] KBP Golden Dove Awards.[citation needed]
Areas of coverage
Baguio Bureau
- Baguio City and Benguet
- Sagada and Mountain Province
- Tabuk City and Kalinga
- Kabugao and Apayao
- Banaue and Ifugao
- San Fernando City and La Union
- Bangued and Abra
Dagupan Bureau
- Dagupan City and Pangasinan
- Tarlac City and Tarlac
- Cabanatuan City and Nueva Ecija
- Olongapo City and Zambales
- Baler and Aurora
- City of San Fernando and Pampanga (shared coverage with either by News Patrol Kapampangan or by the national TV Patrol)
Santiago Bureau
- Santiago City
- Tuguegarao City
- Cabarroguis
- Basco
- Bayombong
- Isabela
- Cagayan
- Batanes
- Quirino
- Nueva Vizcaya
Laoag Bureau
- Laoag City and Ilocos Norte
- Vigan City and Ilocos Sur
Anchors
- Dhobie de Guzman (Anchor for Baguio/North Luzon News Cluster Manager)
- Cris Zuñiga (Anchor for Dagupan/Dagupan News Desk)
Occasional Anchors
- Grace Alba (Anchor for Laoag)
- Bryan Realgo (Anchor for Laoag)
- Harris Julio (Anchor for Isabela)
News Executives/Senior Reporters
- Maira Wallis-Nuarin (Executive Producer / Director / Baguio News Chief)
- Jonathan Ortega (Dagupan News Chief)
- Randy Menor (Ilocos News Chief)
- Darlene Gemino-Ballad (Isabela News Desk)
- Mae Cornes (Baguio News Desk)
- Bryan Realgo (Ilocos News Desk)
- Mark Guda (Pampanga News Desk)
Reporters
- Micaella Ilao (Baguio)
- Justine Aguilar (Baguio)
- Michelle Soriano (Baguio)
- Noriel Padiernos (Dagupan)
- Elaine Fulgencio-Español (Dagupan)
- Joanna Tacason (Dagupan)
- Grace Alba (Laoag)
- Ria Galiste (Laoag)
- Dianne Dy (Laoag)
- Harris Julio (Isabela)
- Trisha Mostoles (Pampanga)
- Gracie Rutao (Pampanga)