GMA Network News
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| GMA Network News | |
|---|---|
| Format | News program Live action |
| Created by | GMA Network |
| Developed by | GMA News and Public Affairs |
| Starring | Various |
| Country of origin | Philippines |
| Language(s) | English (1991-1998) Filipino (1998-2002) |
| No. of episodes | n/a (airs daily) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | GMA Network |
| Picture format | 480i SDTV |
| Original run | 1991 – October 2002 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | GMA Headline News |
| Followed by | Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco (weekdays) GMA Flash Report: Special Edition (weekends) |
GMA Network News is the former late-night English newscast of GMA Network from 1991 until it was later replaced by Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco in 1999.
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[edit] Background
The weekday edition first aired in 1991 as a replacement for GMA Headline News with Tina Monzon-Palma (who then moved to ABC) and Leslie Espino (who replaced Jose Mari Velez on the newscast after his death). The first team of anchors was composed of Espino, Vicky Morales (who also had a brief stint as the third anchor on Headline News) and two new recruits from rival stations-- Mari Kaimo (from PTV) and Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel (from IBC). Meanwhile, Marga Ortigas did the weather report. Espino and Ortigas would bow out of the newscast after a couple of years.
In 1997, the newscast was given a new set, new theme music, and a sleeker opening ident and graphics package. In the opening ident, Kaimo gave a sneak peek of the night's headlines with clips from the specific news items, after which, Mike Enriquez (and later, GMA continuity announcer Al Torres) provided the voice-over, "From the award-winning GMA News and Public Affairs team, this is GMA Network News..." to introduce the newscast and its anchorpersons. Rachel del Mar became the program's new weather girl, who would always end the segment (then retitled "GMA Weather Center") with "This is Rachel del Mar, your all-weather friend."
However, Kaimo and Hontiveros eventually left the newscast as well. The former would move to ABS-CBN (to host The Correspondents and the Studio 23 newscast News Central), while the latter ran for party-list representative in Congress. Morales became sole anchor of the newscast while it prepared for a reformat, while the opening voice-over was eventually dropped from the opening ident.
In 1998, Enriquez joined Morales as co-anchor. It became the first Filipino newscast to do stand-up news delivery (inspired by US TV network newscasts). It also made a gradual shift in the language it used, first to "Taglish" (a mixture of Tagalog and English), then Filipino after a few months. The newscast became the first late-night news program in Filipino on Philippine television. This is also the first news program where the anchors are standing up.
Enriquez used his signature close, "Thank you for trusting GMA", which became "Marami pong salamat sa inyong pagtitiwala" (when the newscast switched to Filipino) to end the newscast. The latter closing line was also used by Enriquez in Saksi (when he and Morales transferred to the said newscast in 1999 after the premiere of Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco on the late-night slot) and on his DZBB radio program. Mel Tiangco would later use the same closing line until now on 24 Oras.
Meanwhile, the newscast's weekend edition aired from 1996 to 2002, first, with Raffy Marcelo and Georgette Tengco, then Gin de Mesa, and finally, Bernadette Sembrano. The weekend edition also switched to news delivery in Filipino at the same time the weekday edition did. "GMA Network News" continued to be the weekend newscast's title until 2002, even as the weekday edition gave way to "Frontpage" in 1999.
[edit] Anchors
- Leslie Espino (1991-1993)
- Mari Kaimo (1991-1998)
- Vicky Morales (1991-1999)
- Mike Enriquez (1998-1999)
- Risa Hontiveros (1991-1998)
- Raffy Marcelo (weekend anchor)
- Rachel Del Mar (Weatherwoman from 1997-1998)
- Marga Ortigas (Weatherwoman from 1991-1993)
- Georgette Tengco (weekend anchor)
- Bernadette Sembrano (weekend anchor from 1999-2002)
- Gin De Mesa (weekend anchor)
[edit] Awards
- Winner, Best News Program - PMPC Star Awards for Television (1998, 1999, & 2000)
