Dateline Philippines

*Dateline Philippines*
Dateline Philippines
	Titlecard used since October 26, 2015
Genre	News program
Created by	ABS-CBN Corporation
Developed by	ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs
Presented by	Weekday anchor ; Karmina Constantino; Saturday anchor ; Rica Lazo
Country of origin	Philippines
Original language	English
No. of episodes	n/a (airs daily)
Production
Running time	1 hour
Original release
Network	Sarimanok News Network (now ANC)
Release	July 8, 1996 –; present

Dateline Philippines is the flagship midday newscast of the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) covering the day's most important headlines in politics, business, sports, and entertainment. It concentrates on news from the more than 7,000 islands of the Philippines as reported by ABS-CBN News, the largest news organization in the country.

It is remarkable for being ABS-CBN's longest running national newscast that originated on cable and was produced by Sarimanok News Network (now ABS-CBN News Channel). It debuted on July 8, 1996, and was first hosted by Frankie Evangelista, Gene Orejana, and Joyce Burton-Titular.

The show now airs from 12:00 NN to 1:00 PM (PST) and is hosted by Karmina Constantino on weekdays and Rica Lazo on Saturdays.

COVID-19 pandemic and ABS-CBN shutdown

The Sunday edition of Dateline Philippines was no longer produced on March 22, 2020, as a result of the implementation of an enhanced community quarantine to help stop the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.

Furthermore, with ABS-CBN shutting down free-to-air operations due to the expiration of its legislative franchise and in compliance with the NTC's cease and desist order, the current status of the said edition remained unknown until it was eventually cancelled as a result of the network's shutdown and permanent loss of broadcast franchise followed by the company's retrenchment layoffs.^[1] Dateline Philippines Sunday was then replaced by provisional programming on the same date.

Dateline Philippines Weekday and Saturday editions resumed on air in full scale on April 26, 2020, when the timesharing of programming between both DZMM TeleRadyo and ANC ended.

Anchors

Weekdays

Karmina Constantino

Saturday anchor

Rica Lazo

Substitute

Stanley Palisada
Denice Dinsay
Ron Cruz
Vivienne Gulla
Katrina Domingo
Michelle Ong
Bettina Magsaysay
Pia Gutierrez
Migs Bustos

Previous anchors and segment presenters

Frankie Evangelista
Joyce Burton-Titular (currently an host for The 700 Club Asia and acting)
Kathy San Gabriel
Gene Orejana
Harry Gasser (segment anchor from ABS-CBN Cebu)
Ron Cruz (Currently an anchor for Top Story and The World Tonight Sunday Edition)
Gigi Grande
TJ Manotoc
Primy Cane (segment host from ABS-CBN Cagayan de Oro)
Ryan Gamboa (segment anchor from ABS-CBN Bacolod)
Gretchen Fullido (segment anchor, showbiz and weather; Currently as Star Patrol segment presenter for TV Patrol)
Ricky Carandang
Mari Kaimo (currently an host for The 700 Club Asia and acting)
Erwin Tulfo (currently a representative of ACT-CIS Partylist)
Pinky Webb (moved to CNN Philippines and later Bilyonaryo News Channel)
Tony Velasquez (currently an anchor for The World Tonight)
Caroline Howard
Alvin Elchico (currently an anchor for TV Patrol)
Boyet Sison ("Hardball" segment host)
Raine Musñgi (moved to Bilyonaryo News Channel)

References

^ Santos, Elmor. "ABS-CBN to lay off workers effective August 31". CNN Philippines. Archived from the original on July 16, 2020. Retrieved July 16, 2020.

[1] Santos, Elmor. "ABS-CBN to lay off workers effective August 31". CNN Philippines. Archived from the original on July 16, 2020. Retrieved July 16, 2020.

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