Bing Formento: Moving on with RPN 9

April 7, 2014

RPN News and Public Affairs programs is under the media organiation Media ng Bayan are strongly positioned to bring to ever-widening audiences the exciting, fast-paced and often turbulent events of the century. The network's programs that combine has outstanding talent, pluck, creativity and a greater respect for the intelligence and taste of the Filipino viewing public.

Veteran broadaster and newsman Bing Formento refuses to the news broadcaster despite the challenges, and gears up to join RPN's broadcast team as anchor to their flagship news program: Arangkada Balita.

"I am constantly evolving," explaind the exprienced radio commentator calling back his humble beginning from DZRH and his gradual transition to RPN News and Public Affairs, the news organization under the media organization Media ng Bayan. "Yes, i want to be him a newscaster," was Formento's reply when offered the anchor opposite RPN's female news anchor Angelique Lazo.

Arangkada Balita, RPN's evening news program representing the all broadcast newscast in the primetime slot (6:30 p.m.), offers a Filipino viewers of the masses with the day's headlines in a national news, political news, crime news and police reports, CCTV reports, public service, global news, sports news, weather forecast and entertainment news. Formento and Lazo wherein commentaties and the news reportage in the traditional news programs that are set in the highly competitive early evening news and public affairs block as delivered by the reinvigorated ne ws reporting teams of RPN News and Public Affairs.

Perfect Tandem

RPN News and Public Affairs team is a dedicated and highly professional group of men and women. When asked about her expectations on the newest tandem, Formento expressed high hopes and faith on the chemistry. "I listen to programs with Angelique Lazo and he is a very substantive woman."

No wonder. Angelique Lazo has been in the business and through networks for years, abreast with the quirks of the industry, and hailed by award-giving bodies as the Best Female Public Affairs Host (KBP, Golden Globe). Lazo has been the vanguard of RPN News' Arangkada Balita since 2000.

Known for the feisty and fearless commentaries on radio and television, Formento and Lazo has made a mark in the industry as they produced some of the biggest stories of the nation of our broadcast journalists and our regional and international bureaus will give the most comprehensive coverage of the day’s events.

News Calling

"News is public service, especially with the amount of work you do and the coffee you drink."

As Formento is on TV and radio anchor, so RPN leaps ahead to challenge the next generation of Philippine broadcasting with an invigorated News and Public Affairs. Alongside Arangkada Balita, RPN is re-launching its most-watched, highly-rated and the longest-running Englsh newscast: Newswatch now with the newest anchors Eric Eloriaga and Cristine Peczon on weeknights at 11 p.m.

Promising a strong competition, RPN has just acquired new stateofthe art cameras that utilize discs instead of tapes, non-linear editing facilities, and a centralized server-based technology for its new programs. Aside from this, they also have satellite news gathering terminals with "flyaways" to be used in covering live events in Metro Manila, ther provinces and remote areas, in addition to the OB vans, SNG vans and ENG vans that use microwave links to transmit audio and video.

To boost its news team, RPN producers, reporters, dirctors and writers have also undergone strict and rigorous training workshop on revolutionary news delivery headed by the world-renowned news head and the broadcast journalist Marigold Haber-Dunca.