Angelique Lazo and Kiko Pangilinan, New Face of RPN News

October 11, 2013

From the news organization trusted for years comes another breaking news revitalized attuned to the times.

World-renowned anchor and broadcast journalist Angelique Lazo is now the new face of RPN News and Public Affairs with anchoring the network's flagship primetime national news program Arangkada Balita airing weeknights at 6:30 p.m. in order to compete with TV Patrol and 24 Oras topped the ratings.

One of the veteran broadcast journalist Kiko Pangilinan is the news anchor for the Kasama network's longest-running and national newscast on Philippine television NewsWatch weeknights at 11 p.m., which recently mark on its 44th year anniversary celebration, thanks to the news head Marigold Haber-Dunca.

RPN president and CEO Robert Rivera said, Angelique Lazo's Arangkada Balita will now have the national, local and global news, as well as its crime and metro news, CCTV reports, politics, weather forecast, showbiz news and sports news will deliver the primetime newscast. Known for his feisty and fearless commentaries on radio and television, Lazo has made her mark in the industry as she produced some of the biggest stories of the nation.

Meanwhile, Kiko Pangilinan's NewsWatch is one of the country's pioneer news program on Philippine TV started with the first TV news paper program in the country in in-depth, straight-forward, unbiased and trusted for years. It remains the station's longest-runing national most-watched newswcast since started airing in 1969. Pangilinan is the veteran news anchor in the industry as he produced some of the biggest stories of the country.

Meanwhile, Cielo Villaluna as the anchor of the hourly news update RPN News Break which airs at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 noon, 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Also, Buddy Lopa on the weekend edition of Arangkada Balita Weekend every Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m.

Also, the hit foreign TV shows from the US is now on primetime in the audience and the upscale market. The favorite TV series such as Glee, The X-Files, Heroes, The Walking Dead, 24, Ally McBeal, The Vampire Diaries, The Big Bang Theory, One Tree Hill, reality show Ripley's Believe It or Not and American Idol.

RPN-9's employees of the government and the management in those people deserve to be heard and compensated for their effots to keep the station afloat.