Even if newscaster Angelique Lazo is currently one of the top honchos of People’s Television PTV-Channel 4’s News and Public Affairs, she is still identified as an ABS-CBN baby.
Angelique has contributed a lot, primarily her talent and cutting edge entertainment news materials, in the rise of the Kapamilya station when she anchored the “Star News” portion of the network’s primetime news show “TV Patrol” in the 80s and 90s.
Likewise, ABS-CBN has given her the wide and steady exposure to shoot up her popularity that catapulted her as the darling of the masses.
‘[S]he is disheartened and sad when the ABS-CBN transmitter and tower is demolished anytime to give way to new structures under new ownership of the particular site … the portion of the Lopez property sold and being developed by Ayala Land.’
Although she left ABS-CBN at the height of her famed broadcast career because of some disagreements with image building concepts and principles, the Star Network still considers her member of the network’s royal family.
It in this context that she is disheartened and sad when the ABS-CBN transmitter and tower is demolished anytime to give way to new structures under new ownership of the particular site.
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The iconic ABS-CBN tower is located along Sgt. Esguerra Avenue which is the portion of the Lopez property sold and being developed by Ayala Land.
“Although the other properties of ABS-CBN are in place, the transmitter evokes memories,” said Jik, Angelique’s pet name.
“Many of the loved shows of ABS-CBN were beamed through the transmitter and it pains me to realize that it was also part of my broadcast career,” she lamented with sadness in her eyes.
Aside from “TV Patrol,” the other programs hosted by Angelique transmitted by the tower in millions of households throughout the country and the world were “Overseas Unlimited” with Noli de Castro, “The World Tonight,” among many others.
Lazo after newscasting for Channel 4 in the mid-80s moved to ABS-CBN
immediately after the 1986 EDSA Revolution when the Lopezes revived the network during the return of the demicratic space.
Along with Angelique, the other talents from Channel 4 who were employed by ABS-CBN were Korina Sanchez, Mel Tiangco, Arlene de Jesus, among others.
Jik started as one of the anchors of the primetime newscast of ABS-CBN in 1986, “Balita Ngayon,” the precursor of “TV Patrol” with Mel and the late Robert Arevalo.