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Congrats, Prof. Khrysta Rara! 2011 Golden Dove Awards Finalist!

     Congrats to Prof. Khrysta Rara! Finalist, 2011 Golden Dove Awards for Science and Technology Program for her show in DZUP, “Kwentuhang Pets, Atbp”!!    The awarding ceremonies are set on Oct. 26, 2011, 7pm, Star Theatre.  Big, big thanks, big hugs,  to the DZUP station and program managers, to the faculty of the U.P. Broadcast Department, especially to Prof. Rose Feliciano, Prof. Mel Estonillo, and Prof. Jane Vinculado, and many others…     (photo from department file)

     Prof. Khrysta Rara, the  winning host-executive producer of the show has opened our eyes to  issues  concerning domesticated animals like the government policy of “tambuchogassing” of dogs which has since been stopped by authorities, the need to spay and neuter pets and stray animals to control their populations, the illegal dog meat trade, pet adoptions, the training of dogs used in security  operations as well as the rescue of animals during natural disasters.

     The show also featured  environmental concerns like biodiversity and wildlife conservation. An episode each was devoted to the illegal wildlife trade, the Wildlife Conservation Act, the importance of preserving caves as habitat, the dolphin slaughters in Japan and importation of these animals by Philippine firms, Philippine land and marine mammals, as well as the conservation efforts to save the endangered endemic species like the tamaraw, Philippine eagle, pawikan, reticulated python, the dugong and others.

 Guests featured in the program include  singer/ songwriter and environmentalist Joey Ayala, ANC news anchor Pia Hontiveros, GMA7 Senior Reporter Joseph Morong, environmentalist and “Running Priest” Fr. Robert Reyes, DENR Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) Director Dr. Mundita Lim, CSSP Dean and Phil. Daily Inquirer columnist Dr. Michael Tan, UP Veterinary Hospital Director Dr. Karlo Gicana and many more experts and enthusiasts in the fields of wildlife conservation and animal protection.

      Congrats, again, Khrysta!

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DZMM radio: in a visual world: shining through

I saw in Korina’s show this morning that DZMM is now the number one channel on cable (not just on radio but on television cable). This one’s for the books, or some sort of a record, because television is a visual medium and DZMM is radio, it doesn’t have visuals except for headshots and medium shots of the radio anchors and sometimes, live streaming of video using 3G phone (grainy but really real-time), but it has  the most watched shows  on cable. I think I know why.

 

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  It has the widest network of regional correspondents in the Philippines and the most well-distributed pool of reporters and correspondents metro-wide compared to other tv news programs; its correspondents are in every nook and cranny, in every cliff and riverbed,  and they just call in all of a sudden while they’re breaking the news;  even at 2:00 am or 3:00 am they have correspondents and reporters who are awake, even the graveyard shift priest anchor in the radio booth   receives breaking news of some shooting incident somewhere at 3:00 am. That means that every minute, they have new news  stories, they don’t repeat their stories. That’s my theory on why it’s the most-watched (how can you compete with that); and the second reason, I think, is…. (in a visual medium where the most watched channel  is not that visual, you’ve got to do some thinking, and the second reason I think is):

 

           The radio anchors. The basis I think for putting the regular radio anchors ( the DZMM talents and not the politicians who buy block time for their radio program, I don’t watch politicians),  or the standard for choosing the radio anchors is, I think,  their WIT, SENSE OF HUMOR, their broadcaster’s voice (volume and quality; nobody’s mumbling or squeaking there), and their PERSONALITY. In fact, in dire situations, when they don’t have a  guest or a  co-host, or a reporter to break news, each of them can hold fort or hold a program for two hours straight, on their own, UNSCRIPTED, no prompters, just relying on their wit, their stock knowledge of what’s going on around them, the inside stories from their sources, all unscripted. How many can do that, enthrall an audience, for two hours straight,  with nothing in their hands, and just relying on their wit? That’s what I mean. The energy is high. Each has a  life force in him/ her worth watching even if it’s coming from a small  inset screen within a screen. Either you have it or you don’t,  that’s how it goes. Each, a character; they have many stories inside of them bursting to come out.