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Frontline Pilipinas
Philippine television news show From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frontline Pilipinas (lit. 'Frontline Philippines') is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by TV5, with simulcast on RPTV since 2024. Originally anchored by Raffy Tulfo and Cheryl Cosim, it premiered on October 5, 2020, replacing Aksyon. Cosim and Julius Babao currently serve as the anchors.[1][2]
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2020–2021: Tulfo-Cosim era
Frontline Pilipinas premiered on October 5, 2020, at 6:30 PM PHT with Raffy Tulfo and Cheryl Cosim as original anchors, along with former News5 chief Luchi Cruz-Valdes, News5 and One News' chief correspondent Ed Lingao, and Lourd de Veyra as segment anchors for Deretsahan, NEWS ExplainED, and Word of the Lourd, respectively.[3][4] The program serves as the replacement to TV5's longest-running flagship newscast Aksyon, which ended abruptly on March 16, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the enforcement of enhanced community quarantine in Luzon,[5] as well as the simulcast of two One-branded newscasts (One News Now of One News and One PH's One Balita Pilipinas) on TV5.[6] The following week, the program moved to 6:00 PM timeslot to give way for the 2020 PBA Philippine Cup and new primetime programming.[7][8]
On February 15, 2021, athlete and TV host Gretchen Ho joined the newscast as "Sports" segment anchor (alongside joining The Big Story on One News).[9] On February 22, 2021, the program extended its running time to one hour and 15 minutes as part of TV5's programming changes.[10]
Tulfo's departure
On October 1, 2021, Raffy Tulfo bid farewell to the newscast to run for senator in 2022.[11][12]
Julius Babao was named as Raffy Tulfo's replacement, joining the newscast on February 7, 2022.[13] In conjunction with this, Frontline Pilipinas also debuted its new opening billboard, title card, and graphics. Babao was originally to make his debut on January 17, but was postponed due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases brought by the omicron variant.[14] Ed Lingao took over as interim anchor of the newscast.[15]
Also on the same day, Gretchen Ho took over the anchoring duties for Frontline sa Umaga from Paolo Bediones as he left News5 on February 1 due to the issues surrounding his company, Ei2Tech. The newscast returned to the original 6:30 PM timeslot and was extended to 90 minutes on May 22, 2023.[16]
On January 8, 2024, Jiggy Manicad joined the newscast, becoming its first third main anchor. It also marked his return to journalism, after a nearly six-year hiatus.[17]
From March 8, 2025, beginning with its weekend edition, all of the newscast's edition (with exception of News5 Alerts until June 8, 2025) silently dropped its original theme music and began adopting the composition used by its predecessor program Aksyon from 2010 to 2017 throughout its broadcasts for unknown reasons, sharing the music with TV5's affiliate in Zamboanga City for its regional newscast Dateline Zamboanga.[18] A week later, the newscast transitioned to a temporary studio set, as its current news studio underwent renovations in preparation for the Bilang Pilipino 2025 mid-term election coverage.[19] On April 29, the graphics were updated, starting with its edition of Frontline Express.[20][21] On May 16, Manicad made his final appearance on the newscast to become the anchor of its lead-in, Una sa Lahat. On May 19, it was shortened to 45 minutes to make way for Una sa Lahat and Wattpad Presents: Ang Mutya ng Section E.
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Frontline sa Umaga (Morning edition)
Frontline sa Umaga (lit. transl. Frontline in the Morning), a morning edition of Frontline Pilipinas, aired on TV5 from May 10, 2021 to June 16, 2023, with Paolo Bediones and Marga Vargas as its original anchors.[22][23]
The newscasts aired at 6 am on May 10, 2021, later moving to the 10:50 am slot on October 4, 2021, the 10:15 am slot on April 18, 2022, and the 10:00 am slot on July 18, 2022. It aired as a segment of Gud Morning Kapatid from June 19, 2023 to May 3, 2024.
The newscast returned as a standalone newscast from May 6 to October 18, 2024 with Jes Delos Santos, Ruth Cabal and Andrei Felix as its anchors, serves as lead-in or lead-out to Gud Morning Kapatid, and was replaced by Cine Cinco sa Umaga after the changes within the programming as well as moving of Gud Morning Kapatid to an earlier 5:30am slot extended to 2 and 1/2 hour show.
On June 9, 2025, after its last iteration as a standalone newscast, the latter returns back as a main News segment of Gud Morning Kapatid, replacing Pasada Balita segment with Andrei Felix and Angela Lagunzad-Castro as its main presenter with Dimples Romana as its Pasada Chika (Showbiz) segment anchor.[24]
Frontline Express (AM Edition & PM Edition)
Frontline Express, a rolling newscast of Frontline Pilipinas, aired on TV5 since April 8, 2024 replacing Wanted sa Radyo with Nikki De Guzman (weekday morning and Saturday edition) and Ruth Cabal (original anchor; afternoon edition) as current anchors.
The newscasts aired at the 3:15 pm slot on April 8, 2024, later moving to the 3:10 pm slot on June 3, 2024, the 2:30 pm slot on June 17, 2024, the 2:25 pm slot on June 24, 2024, back again at the 2:30 pm slot on August 5, 2024, the 3:15 pm slot on October 21, 2024, and also back again at the 2:30 pm slot since December 16, 2024. The newscasts added as a second wave at 4:50 pm/3:50 pm slot from December 16, 2024 to January 31, 2025 replacing the rerun of Stay-In Love and was replaced by the rerun of The Second Chance, the second wave is returned from April 28 to June 27, 2025 at 5:05 pm/4:35 pm slot replacing Wil To Win. On May 17, 2025, it was extended until Saturday and broadcast in two 15-minute intervals each before and after Rosalinda, which then shortened to two 10-minute intervals (from 2:25 pm to 2:35 pm and from 3:50 pm to 4:00 pm) from May 24 to June 21, 2025. On June 28, the Saturday edition's intervals were merged as one and were moved to the 3:20 PM timeslot, after Rosalinda and before Cine Cinco: Hit na Hit.[25]
On June 30, the two editions of Frontline Express are extended to 30 minutes each, one airing in the morning from 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM before Face to Face Harapan[26] and the main afternoon edition airing from 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM right after Eat Bulaga!. It was then applied later in its Saturday edition on July 19, 2025.
Una sa Lahat
Una sa Lahat (lit. First of All), is an early-evening newscast produced by News5, anchored by Jiggy Manicad, this is originally a segment from Frontline Pilipinas and other Frontline branded news programs. Since its launch, primarily focused on top stories, headlines, breaking news or crime news.
This was premiered on May 19, 2025, after TV5 made its major revamp on its early primetime programming, making it a solo, 45 minutes newscast. It airs every Monday to Friday 5:30 PM on the network's Primetime Primera block, serves as lead-in to Frontline Pilipinas.
Though it became a newscast, the latter currently used as a intro segment on Late-Night Edition and Weekend Edition.
Frontline Tonight (Late-night Edition)
Frontline Tonight, the late-night edition of Frontline Pilipinas, is the late-night news program broadcast by TV5, it is anchored by Ed Lingao and Marie Anne Los Baños-Oroceo with Jan Jannie Loudette Vicencio-Alipo-on as its Showbiz segment anchor.
It premiered on September 27, 2021 under TodoMax Primetime Singko block, replacing TV5's late night newscast, Aksyon Tonite which aired its final episode on March 1, 2019.
This is the first newscast to simulcast upon delayed basis on RPTV since February 1, 2024 replacing defunct CNN Philippines' late evening newscast, The Final Word with Rico Hizon.
Frontline Pilipinas Weekend (Weekend edition)
Frontline Pilipinas Weekend is the weekend edition of Frontline Pilipinas, anchored by Jes Delos Santos and Nikki de Guzman. It premiered on October 14, 2023.
It was first aired as weekend newscast every Saturday, The Sunday edition, meanwhile, aired its maiden broadcast on November 12. This is the latest Weekend newscast of TV5, since Aksyon Weekend and Pilipinas News Weekend
In April 27 2024, former CNN Philippines journalist Andrei Felix joined the program as its third anchor.
News5 Alerts (News Bulletin)
News5 Alerts is an hourly news bulletin of TV5 that premiered on October 5, 2020, replacing Aksyon Alerts.
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Accolades
Frontline Pilipinas received nominations for Best News Program and Best Female Newscaster (Cosim) at the 35th PMPC Star Awards for Television.[27][28]
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