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24 Oras

(24 HOURS) - is the flagship national network news broadcast of GMA Network. A nightly national newscast which airs in the Philippines. The newscast is also aired on radio thru DZBB 594 kHz in Mega Manila.

Background:

Launched in 2004, it is one of the most watched news programs in the country. The program airs at 6:30 PM PST on weekdays, and is also simulcast on GMA Pinoy TV. Special weekend editions are also being aired when it deemed necessary. On December 1, 2005, the coverage by 24 Oras of a siege of Camp Bagong Diwa was mentioned in the best news program category in the Asian Television Awards in Singapore. The show relaunched in April 2006 with a new graphics package, and a new set with floating large rear projection screens that allow the anchors to virtually "talk" to correspondents in live feeds. Pia Guanio hosts the showbiz news segment of the program, "Chika Minute". PAGASA's Nathaniel Cruz anchors weather news during severe weather conditions. Joel Reyes Zobel is the voice over talent.

On August 11, 2008, the show was relaunched again with a new set, a new desk which is similar to the desk used by WNBC's News 4 New York, new graphics and titles.

On February 21, 2010, the show launched a weekend edition whose anchors were Pia Archangel and Jiggy Manicad.

April 2010, the show became the home of Vizrt Touchscreen system a real-time broadcast solutions system which is use in the YouScoop segment designed and developed by Paolo Jose of GMA New Media. It was been used by the Cable News Network (CNN) in the US Elections 2008. This will also be used in their most compresensive coverage of Eleksyon 2010.


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