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 (1996-07-08) – present (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.

Departure of Raine Musñgi

The newscast's Saturday anchor, Raine Musñgi, had her farewell appearance on October 15, 2022, and she revealed that she would be departing the network after 18 years with ANC. She was replaced the next week by Rica Lazo.

Anchors

Weekdays

• Karmina Constantino

Saturday anchor

• Rica Lazo (also a substitute anchor for Constantino)

Substitute

• Stanley Palisada
• Denice Dinsay
• Ron Cruz
• Vivienne Gulla
• Katrina Domingo
• Michelle Ong

Previous anchors and segment presenters

• Frankie Evangelista
• Joyce Burton-Titular
• Kathy San Gabriel
• Gene Orejana
• Harry Gasser (segment anchor from ABS-CBN Cebu)
• Ron Cruz (Currently an anchor for newscasts Top Story, The Bureau, News Now Weekend, ANC Headlines, and The World Tonight Weekend)
• 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
• Erwin Tulfo (currently the Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary)
• Pinky Webb (moved to CNN Philippines)
• Tony Velasquez (Currently an anchor for The World Tonight)
• Caroline Howard
• Alvin Elchico (Currently an anchor for TV Patrol Weekend)
• Boyet Sison ("Hardball" segment host)
• Raine Musñgi

See also

• List of programs shown on the ABS-CBN News Channel
• ABS-CBN News Channel
• ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs
• Headline Pilipinas - Filipino-language regional newscast of DZMM TeleRadyo

References