Country of origin Philippines | ||
Genre News program
Live action Created by ABC Development Corporation Developed by ABC News and Public Affairs Starring Cherie Mercado
various contributors Original language(s) English (1962–1972, 1992–2004)
Filipino (2004–2008) | ||
Big News was the first ever newscast on Philippine television. It was the primetime news broadcast of ABC-5 in the Philippines. It was anchored by Jose Marie Velez with Antonio Tecson as head of the newsroom. The show was originally first aired in 1962, and went off the air in 1972 due to martial law, and re-aired again in 1992 (six years of post-EDSA People Power Revolution) as a revival and also as an English language newscast. On April 12, 2004, when the network reformatted most of its programs, former ABS-CBN anchor Cherie Mercado replaced Mike Toledo and joined with Amelyn Veloso as a co-anchor and the newscast switched to Filipino in order to compete with the other networks newscasts.
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On October 2, 2006, the newscast exchanged timeslots with Sentro, the early-evening news program of the network. Mercado became the sole anchor of the program, and the length of the program was reduced to 15 minutes from the former 30.
On August 8, 2008, the program, together with Sentro aired its final broadcast and on the next day (August 9), it rebranded as TV5.