Philippine Showbiz Today
September 22 - October 7, 2017
Jan. 22-Feb.7, 2015
24 Oras Weekend rules
timeslot, beats competition
There was a time when
TV stations, like government
offices, rested on weekends. In
short, the news and public affairs
departments were nowhere in
the programming grid of the
channels. It seems with the advent
of specialized broadcasting and
news channels on satellite and
cable channels, free TV stations
felt the pressure to adapt to the
evolving TV audience.
And, that was how 24 Oras
Weekend came about. It started as
a special news program when there
was important news the station
needed to convey to the audience
until such time the management
decided to establish the newscast
as part of the programming grid
on Saturday and Sunday.
The
newscast
is
GMA
Network’s
flagship
primetime
newscast
on
Saturday and Sunday, and it
remains the top news source of
Filipino viewers nationwide every
weekend.
Data from the industry’s
widely-trusted ratings service
provider Nielsen TV Audience
Measurement
show
that
from Aug.1 to Sept. 10, 2 (with
Sept. 3 to 10 based on overnight
data), 24 Oras Weekend topped
the National Urban Television
Audience Measurement (NUTAM)
with an average people r ating
of 8.4 percent. It beat TV Patrol
Weekend’s average people rating
of 5.5 percent.
In Urban Luzon, 24 Oras
Weekend toppled competition
with an average people rating
of 9 percent. TV Patrol Weekend
only managed to get 4.1 percent.
24 Oras Weekend posted an
even bigger margin in Mega
Manila (based on official data as
of Sept. 2) with an impressive 9.2
percent average people rating
versus TV Patrol Weekend’s 3.4
percent.
This comes on the heels
of a consistently strong ratings
performance this year, with
the Kapuso weekend newscast
averaging a 7.8 percent people
rating in NUTAM from January
to September 10. TV Patrol
Weekend trails behind with 5.3
percent.
The newscast has been
consistently part of the list of GMA’s
top-rating weekend programs.
Manicad has been in
broadcast journalism for two
decades, anchoring as well
f GMA News TV’s afternoon
Response
newscast Quick
Team (QRT). A hardcore news
guy, Jiggy’s work reflects QRT’s
tagline “Sumusugod kahit saan,
sa ngalan ng katotohanan”.
He has gained the public’s
admiration and respect through
his coverage of various national
and international events. Some
of these include being caught in
between opposing parties during
the EDSA People Power 3, reporting
on the tragic story of marine
corporal Angelo Abeto (which won
a Gold World Medal at the 2009
New York Festivals), and covering
the conflicts in Mindanao and the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He was also a member
of GMA Team Everest, which
reported on the historic climb of
mountaineer Romi Garduce. It
was the first time that a Philippine
news organization broadcast live
from the base camp of Mount
Everest.
In 2014, GMA News and Public
Affairs won its fourth George Foster
Peabody award for its coverage of
Super Typhoon Yolanda. Manicad
was at the forefront of that award-
winning coverage – and was
the first reporter to go live on
Philippine television, reported the
team’s first-hand experience, and
showed videos of Yolanda’s wrath.
Together with Jessica Soho.
Also, Manicad and Arcangel
co-anchored a special edition of
Continued on PAGE 8
24 Oras Weekend newscast anchors Pia Arcangel and Jiggy Manicad
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