This week marks the 28th anniversary of TV Patrol. Here’s a history lesson about the longest-running Filipino-language newscast on television, as published during the week of the program’s 27th anniversary.
By Andrew Jonathan S. Bagaoisan
TV Patrol’s logos from 1987 to 2014
For most Filipinos, it is TV Patrol that has been their window to recent history for the longest time.
It has chronicled the ups and downs of the Fifth Republic, some of them coinciding with its own. Its headlines have shown scandals in the halls of power and brawls in obscure barangay corners. And its subjects have ranged from the ordinary to the influential.
The past 12 months were no exception to big news.
TV Patrol’s crews, reporters, and anchors took their cameras to the farthest and the worst, to the best and the most awe-striking. They were at the fringes of two border disputes and at the crossfire of a downtown skirmish. They uncovered schemes of greed and deceit and covered the outrage that followed.
They saw white smoke signal change in a centuries’ old institution, welcomed…
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