TV Patrol Eastern Visayas

TV Patrol Eastern Visayas (previously known as TV Patrol Tacloban) was a local news program of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Tacloban City. It was the most watched news program in the Eastern Visayas. It was aired online via its official Facebook page, ABS-CBN Regional's YouTube channel and iWant. It also produces its bulletin version News Patrol Eastern Visayas airing several times a day every weekdays.

TV Patrol Eastern Visayas
Final title card
Also known asTV Patrol Tacloban
First incarnation:
April 14, 1997 (1997-04-14) – November 7, 2013 (2013-11-07)
Second incarnation:
December 23, 2013 (2013-12-23) – September 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
News Patrol Eastern Visayas
(news bulletin version)
GenreLocal Newscast
Directed byZandrix Andrade
Presented byRanulfo Docdocan
Narrated byBob Abellanosa (1997–2007)
Clifford Nolido (2007–2013)
Ranulfo Docdocan (2013–2020)
Country of originPhilippines
Original languages
  • Waray
  • Cebuano (interviewees only in Western parts of Leyte and Southern Leyte)
No. of episodesN/A (airs daily on weekdays)
Production
Executive producersSharon Evite-Carangue
Jenette Fariola-Ruedas
Production locationsABS-CBN Newscenter Tacloban, 5/F Uytingco Bldg., Avenida Veteranos, Tacloban City, Leyte
Camera setupMultiple-camera setup
Running time40 minutes
Production companies
Release
Original network
Picture format480i (SDTV)
Audio formatStereo
Original releaseApril 14, 1997 (1997-04-14) –
August 28, 2020 (2020-08-28)
Chronology
Related showsTV Patrol

It aired daily from the ABS-CBN Newscenter in Tacloban at 5:00 PM, from Monday to Friday. It simulcast over ABS-CBN TV-7 Catbalogan, and TV-10 Calbayog, and radio via MOR 94.3 Tacloban For Life!

All the employees, reporters and anchors of the newcast were retrenched last August 31, 2020.

TV Patrol Eastern Visayas had been covering the latest in-depth news from all over the Eastern Visayas in Waray, the major language of the region. Its area of coverage goes as far as Biliran and Samar, Leyte's neighboring islands. Cebuano was spoken by the interviewees in Western parts of Leyte and Southern Leyte.

History

As TV Patrol Tacloban
Final logo as TV Patrol Tacloban from October 7, 2013 to September 7, 2018

First aired on April 14, 1997 after the launching of the originating station in 1996, TV Patrol Tacloban has been running for more than 20 years, with its original anchor Bob Abellanosa, and later by Clifford Nolido, who since transferred to ABS-CBN Iloilo as its Station Manager. Nolido has been replaced by his former sit-in anchor Ranulfo Docdocan when he took over in 2013. The newscast is the only regional news program to air in the Waray language.

On November 7, 2013, the program temporarily suspended airings for the first time in 6 weeks after Tacloban City was hit by Typhoon Yolanda on November 8 the following day, which damaged the broadcast equipment of ABS-CBN Tacloban.[1][2][3] The program returned to broadcast on December 23, 2013 after power was restored in the city, repairs were completed in the station, and main anchor Docdocan recovered from injuries covering the typhoon in Guiuan, Eastern Samar.[4]

As of September 12, 2017, TV Patrol Tacloban had been the remaining regional TV Patrol that currently uses the 2013 version of the logo, OBB, and graphics package of the national newscast (the other is TV Patrol Bicol), as most of its regional counterparts have updated to the current package that has been used since July 4, 2016.

The newscast aired its final telecast on September 7, 2018.

As TV Patrol Eastern Visayas

After 20 years as TV Patrol Tacloban the newscast was officially relaunched as TV Patrol Eastern Visayas starting Monday, September 11, 2017.[5] The new branding thus expands its reach to cover news stories and features from all over the Samar and Leyte provinces, as well as in Biliran. Alongside the rebrand came a new OBB sequence, similar to the other editions and using the current national graphics package just like the other stations. A new studio was also unveiled following the launching of the newly renovated offices of ABS-CBN Tacloban.

The rebrand and expansion was made possible in the midst of ABS-CBN's cost-cutting measures to its regional content that saw parts of Luzon and Mindanao either merged or axed its newscasts after June 2018.

After over a year later since its relaunch and broadcasting in Standard Definition (480i, 4:3 SDTV) format, TV Patrol Eastern Visayas finally switched to anamorphic widescreen 16:9 format starting on October 1, 2019. This marks the first time a regional TV Patrol newscast begun broadcasting in widescreen but sometimes will switch back to 4:3.

The newscast temporarily suspended airings for the second time from May 5 until May 7, 2020, as a result of the cease and desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to stop the broadcasting operations of ABS-CBN, but the newscast resumed on May 8, 2020 via Facebook's live streaming platform Facebook Live.[6]

The newscast aired its final episode on August 28, 2020 as a result of retrenchments after bills for the renewal of ABS-CBN's franchise was denied by the Congress of the Philippines.[7]

Broadcast areas

Personalities

Final anchor
  • Ranulfo Docdocan (2008–2020; also a reporter)

Final reporters
  • Geron Ponferrada (2009–2020)
  • Jenette Fariola-Ruedas (2007–2020)
  • Sharon Evite-Carangue - (2006–2020; Executive Producer and News Head; also a relief anchor for Docdocan)

Former anchors
  • Ranulfo "Bob" Abellanosa (1997–2007; a former working Board Member of Leyte, currently anchor of TV5's Frontline Eastern Visayas)
  • Clifford Nolido (2007–2013; now as station manager of ABS-CBN Iloilo and Bacolod)

Former reporters

Final cameramen
  • Dwayne Pedrosa
  • Jayson Pabua
  • Kirk Arlo Salazar
  • Gleenn Paraiso
  • Alexander Hosena

Final director
  • Zandrix Andrade

Former director
  • Dwayne Pedrosa

Segments

Final
  • Mga Laray Ulohan (lit. news headlines)
  • Ronda Patrol
  • Sikat Patrol
  • Weather Weather La
  • An Maupay nga Sumat

Former
  • Aprub Ka!
  • Lingkod Kapamilya
  • Presyo Patrol
  • Miss Ko Ini
  • CCTV Patrol: Concerned Citizens Taken Video
  • Kapamilya Barangay
  • Hoy Gising!

See also

References
  1. "Atom Araullo, ABS-CBN team survive typhoon's fury". ABS-CBNnews.com.
  2. "'TV Patrol Tacloban' returns to air".
  3. Ryan Macasero, Eiver Villegas (May 14, 2020). "In Eastern Visayas, Typhoon Yolanda was last time ABS-CBN went off air". Rappler. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  4. "Journalist survives typhoon's landfall in Guiuan". ABS-CBNNews.com. ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  6. "Bantayi an TV Patrol Eastern Visayas, live ha facebook yana nga kulop". TV Patrol Eastern Visayas. May 8, 2020 – via Facebook.
  7. "12 regional 'TV Patrol' programs to air final newscasts on August 28". ABS-CBN News. August 26, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
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