BAGUIO — Anchor Dhobie de Guzman has been the face of a popular news show in the northern Philippines for more than a decade. Now the closure of his regional station — and dozens of others countrywide — has left him out of work.
He is among hundreds of journalists to lose their jobs at ABS-CBN as the broadcasting giant slashes its operations after advertising revenues were ravaged by the loss of its free-to-air license in May.
The closure of 53 regional television and radio stations that broadcast in six languages will deprive millions of Filipinos of their main source of local news and entertainment.
“It’s painful,” de Guzman, 43, told AFP last Friday after presenting the final “TV Patrol North Luzon” in a studio 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the capital Manila.
“You do your job responsibly, you do your share to change the life of ordinary people, then at the end of the day you lose your platform to do that.” (ABS CBN)
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