Aljo Bendijo

=Aljo Bendijo= (born February 6, 1974) is a broadcast journalist in the Philippines, notable for anchoring ABC-5's flagship newscast Big-News  from 2004-present  Hosted by Jean G arcia & Eula Valdez,

Personal Life and Education
Bendijo was born as Alexes Joseph Rubia Bendijo, on February 6, 1974 in   Davao City  and is the eldest of three children. He started out having part-time jobs as waiter and janitor while he is still studying at the Southeastern University in his hometown. A proud scholar, he took up AB Mass Communication for 2 years at the   Ateneo de Davao University  before moving to the Holy Cross of Davao College where he obtained his degree in 1996. He also obtained this degree at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines  and is currently taking law at the   Arellano University  in Pasay City.

ABS-CBN News Career (1994–2004)
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Bendijo started his television career at ABS-CBN Regional Network Group's Davao station in 1994 while obtaining his college degree and hosted a public-service program on the station's regional radio station DXAB. He then became anchor of TV Patrol Southern Mindanao together with original anchor Cristina Banluta and Girlie Banlata in 1997 following a reformat in the program and was renamed as TV Patrol Davao. He then rose to national fame when he was named as one of the three anchors in the reformat of the main   TV Patrol   in ABS-CBN Manila on March 12, 2001, following the vacancy of   Noli De Castro   as anchor for his participation at the 2001 Senatorial elections, together with veteran newscasters   Korina Sanchez   and   Henry Omaga-Diaz. His anchoring skills were absolutely commended by the management that they gave him his own show   Sapul Kayo Diyan!   which aired on Saturdays at 10:30pm. Aside from these 2 shows, Bendijo also excelled as one of the field reporters of the News & Current Affairs Division. He bagged the award   Best New Male TV Personality   at the   15th PMPC Star Awards for Television   in 2001. Following his anchor stint, he was named as one of the hosts of the morning show   Magandang Umaga, Bayan   and was its newsreader, alongside Katherine de Castro, on March 5, 2002. In 2003, he was not seen on TV Patrol for unknown reasons and following this, the newscast underwent a reformat change adding   Julius Babao   to the roster, joining Sanchez. He left MUB also after a year, ending his 10-year career in the network.

Hiatus, focus on business (2004–2006
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Viewers of TV Patrol were so surprised that he had left the newscast. In an article published by Ricky Lo on The Philippine Star, Bendijo tried buy-and-sell of clothes in Divisoria and then sold these at a mall in Imus, Cavite. He also managed the band Sidecrash, which is formerly known as 12 Months to Pay band, which is composed of 5 members and all are fellow Davaoenos.

Various TV appearances (2006–2007)
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Bendijo was seen on 2006 anchoring Hataw Balita on UNTV, following his 3-year hiatus on TV, alongside Daniel Razon, Jay Sonza and lawyer Mel Mauricio (Razon and Sonza were former ABS-CBN anchors, and then transferred to GMA with Mauricio), hosting the Hataw Balita segment but later left the show and transferred to RPN. In the network, he became one of the first anchors of RPN Action News (later became RPN/NewsWatch Aksyon Balita) alongside former ABS-CBN talents Erwin Tulfo and Connie Sison for a year, which replaced Arangkada Balita, anchored by then-Teledyaryo anchor and former TV Patrol anchor Angelique Lazo.

Stint at PTV 4 (2007–2012)
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After his stint at RPN and UNTV, Bendijo then moved to the government-owned NBN 4. He became the main host of the morning show One Morning Cafe with Veronica Baluyut-Jimenez from 2007 up to 2010 and anchored the late-night flagship newscast Batingaw (later became Teledyaryo: Final Edition) with Kathy San Gabriel and Cathy Villar from 2008 up to 2012.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-blogspot_3-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[3]

SMNI Radio Career (2012-present)
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Since 2012, Bendijo has been part of the roster of anchors for DZAR 1026, the flagship radio station of Sonshine Media Network International and has been anchoring the newscast segment Newsblast.