TV Patrol Bicol


TV Patrol Bicol is the local news program of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in the Bicol Region. The newscast is done in a tabloid-style format. The program delivers news headlines about current events in the Bicol Region using the Central Bikol language as a medium of delivery. It also produces its bulletin version News Patrol Bicol airing several times a day every weekday.
It is aired live daily from ABS-CBN Newscenter Naga at 5:25 PM, from Monday to Friday, simulcast over ABS-CBN TV-4 Legazpi, TV-10 Daet and Masbate, TV-7 Sorsogon and Virac, and on radio via MOR 93.5 Naga and MOR 93.9 Legazpi.
In May 5, 2020, the ABS-CBN Network was shut down by a cease and desist order by NTC. In May 9, 2020, The TV Patrol Bicol has been live on their social media accounts.

Brief history

As TV Patrol Naga

Originally, TV Patrol Bicol covered the provinces of Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur, southern parts of Quezon province, northwest parts of Northern Samar and some parts of the Bicol region from its inception on July 1, 1996 with Frankie Evangelista as its pioneering anchor and was aired only on TV-11 Naga.

As TV Patrol Legazpi

In less than a year after TV Patrol Naga's premiere, TV Patrol Legazpi was launched on June 16, 1997 with Harry Ebio, Jane Bermundo Hernandez, and Rose Olarte-Orbita as pioneering anchors. It focuses to the entire Albay, Masbate, and Sorsogon provinces and delivered in Albay Bikol language. With the reportorial team composed of Santi Arana, Rey Nasol, Fierre dela Pena and Alwin Llovit. On November 25, 2005, the newscast was cancelled. Despite cancelling the said newscast, ABS-CBN Channel 4 continues to deliver news via hourly bulletins with Jose Carretero as its anchor.

As TV Patrol Bicol

On November 28, 2005, from the separate TV Patrol Naga and TV Patrol Legazpi brands, the network's two regional newscasts were unified under the TV Patrol Bicol brand, which now airs in the whole Bicol Region from the Channel 11 Naga studios.
As of September 12, 2017, TV Patrol Bicol is one of the remaining regional TV Patrol that currently uses the 2013 version of the logo, graphics and OBB of the national newscast ; though it partially added the 2016 version of the logo to its graphics package, similar to its regional counterparts by August 7.
On May 5, 2020, the newscast aired its final broadcast on television as the National Telecommunications Commission ordered to shutdown ABS-CBN, including its AM and FM radio stations and regional stations nationwide. It returned on May 8, 2020 on their official Facebook page.

Area of coverage