Being the long-running and leading Filipino primetime TV newscast, TV Patrol celebrates its 25th year in providing hard-hitting news and empowering the citizens to become actively involved in nation-building. With veteran news caster Kabayan Noli de Castro, Korina Sanchez and Ted Failon will kick off their silver anniversary on March 5, 2012 with a special episode and the launch of launch the “TV Patrol Balitandaan,” which will mount 25 mini-monuments, each to be revealed every week, in landmarks where the 25 biggest news events in the last 25 years happened.
In line with public service, TV Patrol will launch the “Beinte Singko Para sa Kabayan Ko,” which will encourage Filipinos to drop in 25 cents in customized TV Patrol cans to be distributed in 25 provinces all over the country. The fundraising target amount of P2.5 million will be given to selected beneficiaries.
TV Patrol was launched in March 2, 1987, day before the actual announcement of its launch during the public variety extravaganza “Ang Pagbabalik ng Bituin” (The Return of the Star) at Luneta Park, Manila. Now the leading primetime TV newscast takes news gathering and delivery on a higher lever with “Boto Mo, iPatrol Mo” (BMPM) called on citizens to report irregularities, election violations, and emergencies via text message, MMS, and e-mail before and during the 2007 and 2010 national elections. And it was through ABS-CBN’s citizen journalism campaign that the Maguindanao massacre was exposed. The first report on the Maguindanao massacre was sent by a BMPM patroller, who sent the first picture taken from the site. Which now transformed with “Bayan Mo, iPatrol Mo” with the same process but citizen journalism widens beyond election but a public watchdog in every movement of government officials and more. Aside from that TV Patrol can be watched online via its official website http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/tvpatrol where viewers can also post their comments and join the poll.
Don’t miss 25th anniversary episode of “TV Patrol” on Monday (Mar 5). Watch out for a special documentary marking the silver anniversary of “TV Patrol” airing soon on ABS-CBN.
