| “ | At dahil hindi natutulog ang balita, nakatutok kami 24 Oras. | ” | |
—Closing spiel | |||
24 Oras (24 Hours / read as Bente Kwatro Oras) is a primetime newscast broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on March 15, 2004, and is currently anchored by Mel Tiangco, Vicky Morales, and Emil Sumangil. A weekend edition began broadcasting in 2010.
History
2004-2014: Mel Tiangco and Mike Enriquez
GMA Network chairman Felipe L. Gozon came up with an idea of creating a newscast for the network by merging newscasts Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco and Saksi. The newscast, named 24 Oras, with its accompanying tagline "Dahil Hindi Natutulog ang Balita", premiered on March 15, 2004 at 6:00 pm; it was first broadcast from the Studio 2 of GMA Network Center, replacing Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco. Frontpage anchor Mel Tiangco was joined by former Saksi anchor Mike Enriquez. Its first headline featured the 2004 Philippine elections, followed by a one-on-one live interview with Former Senator Panfilo Lacson discussing on actor and then-politician Fernando Poe Jr. proposed tandem meeting. Also in the telecast, TV host Pia Guanio was introduced as the new host for Showbiz Time, later renamed Chika Minute. Weekend editions were aired when it deemed necessary. The show later moved its timeslot to 6:30 to 8:00 pm, and was extended to 90 minutes, also the following year, the newscast began airing internationally through GMA Pinoy TV.
On December 1, 2005, the coverage by 24 Oras of a siege of Camp Bagong Diwa was mentioned in the best news program category in the Asian Television Awards in Singapore.
The show relaunched on April 17, 2006 with a new graphics package, OBB (including Pia Guanio) and a new set with floating large rear projection screens that allow the anchors to virtually "talk" to correspondents in live feeds, also the anchors are doing stand-up news delivery. The studio set was shared by Saksi during that time. PAGASA's Nathaniel Cruz anchors weather news during severe weather conditions.
On August 11, 2008, the show was relaunched again with a multi-million peso studio set using LED, a new desk which is identical to the desk used by CBS Evening News, new graphics, new titles, and its new tagline "Tahanan ng Katotohanan", while the "Dahil Hindi Natutulog ang Balita" tagline was dropped, but it was still used in the closing remarks until August 2023.
In April 2010, the show became the home of Vizrt Touchscreen system a real-time broadcast solutions system which is used in the YouScoop segment designed and developed by GMA New Media.
24 Oras became instrumental and controversial on covering the Manila hostage crisis, the authorities ordered a media blackout, but failed, when covering live the arrest of the brother of the hostage-taker, the hostage-taker was apparently monitoring GMA and found out about it; the situation became worse when gunshots were heard inside the bus assuming that the hostage taker was watching, it monitored the SWAT's movement of the rescue, the massacre ended at least one hour, when the hostage taker was shot dead on live TV, due to teargas that choked the bus. The coverage ate up its primetime block, from 6:30-9:30pm, giving 19.7% of its audience share from AGB Nielsen.
On December 6, 2010, the news program updated its graphics. A day later, it updated its OBB and title card.
On February 21, 2011, alongside with Unang Hirit, Saksi, 24 Oras Weekend and GMA Flash Report, the newscast transferred its new studios, Studio 5; launched new graphics, new theme, and new OBB. The new theme music is a remix of 24 Oras 2008–2011 theme music and an element of an opera voice, originally used as a promo plug in 2010.
On October 10, 2011, 24 Oras updated only its graphics. This also use a new font Antique Olive on their graphics, replacing Myriad font, which is used on other GMA newscasts.
On June 4, 2012, 24 Oras launched its new weather segment titled I.M. Ready: GMA Weather (based on the advisory advertisement of the said title, and the branding of I.M. Ready).
In June 2013, 24 Oras introduced its augmented reality graphics, initially used at the beginning of the show for presentation/demonstration purposes. It is currently used for US Dollar exchange rate, Metro Manila air index (but removed in 2016), some live crosses and for other occasional purposes (such as Christmas/New Year Countdowns and demographics/data gathering in connection of a certain news story).
A notable coverage of GMA News for "Super Typhoon Yolanda", covering the devastating Typhoon Haiyan (international name), won its 4th George Foster's Peabody Awards in 2014.
2014-2022: Mel Tiangco, Mike Enriquez, and Vicky Morales
On November 10, 2014, as part of GMA News's shakeup, Vicky Morales joined the 24 Oras team as its third anchor, This was also Morales' return to primetime newscast after she teamed up with Enriquez on former GMA Network News and Saksi. Also, GMA Regional newscasts for Bicol, Cebu, Davao, Northern Mindanao, Iloilo, Dagupan and Ilocos adopted the 24 Oras branding. Along with Saksi and Balitanghali, a flat graphic package introduced, and a new title cards, the return of the Myriad font for 24 Oras and the OBB, along with its energetic theme music.
On April 24, 2015, with GMA Network's plans of streamlining regional operations, the Ilokano, Bikol and Northern Mindanao editions were axed by the management, followed by the Iloilo edition on November 13. All of its news staff were laid off of business and were given severance pay to those affected. On February 1, 2016, North Central Luzon (24 Oras Amianan) and Central Visayas editions of the newscast reverted to their respective titles: Balitang Amianan and Balitang Bisdak, respectively. With the said downgrade, the Southern Mindanao edition (rebranded since October 3, 2016 as 24 Oras Davao) became the only regional edition of the newscast across the entire network. In addition, GMA also axed its remaining local non-news programs for its regional viewers.
After 11 years of delivering showbiz news on Chika Minute, Pia Guanio bid farewell to 24 Oras to concentrate on her family life. Iya Villania took over as the new Chika Minute anchor on June 15, 2015.
On mid-November 2016, a new 24 Oras logo was unveiled on a billboard on the side of the GMA Network Center. Then, the new promo plug was used the new 2016 theme song package. These changes was seen first used on-air along with a new refreshed logo, graphics, OBB, and theme song package on December 5, 2016, retiring the stylized clock logo which was in use since 2004 to 2016. A new fontface, DIN, has been introduced and is used alongside Myriad, and now uses augmented reality graphics (both weekday and weekend edition) more extensively to rival those of TV Patrol's.
On June 5, 2018, the newscast started implementing some changes in their lower third graphics, reverting its typeface to Myriad. For the first time in the newscast's history, the color blue was used along with red for the lower third graphics and background LED screen. Even with this change, the lower-thirds and some graphics of the Weekend edition remained unchanged (apart from the news ticker, whose clock was also removed and is now colored blue like the Weekday newscast).
On August 24, 2018, Former Atomic Sports segment host Atom Araullo joined the newscast as the male anchor temporarily replacing Mike Enriquez, who went on medical leave for his kidney treatment. Enriquez returned to the newscast on November 26, 2018.
On December 15, 2018, the newscast began airing on its original set Studio 2, Studio 5 (which was also used by its weekend edition and Saksi as well as State of the Nation with Jessica Soho underwent a major overhaul to become the main studio for the Eleksyon 2019 special coverage. Studio 2 is also the studio where GMA News TV's programs are filmed.
On May 13, 2019, in time with the 2019 Philippine general election, the newscast returned to the newly-renovated Studio 5 along with Unang Hirit, Saksi, State of the Nation and 24 Oras Weekend. The newscast aired with reformatted graphics and logo. Its new OBB premiered the following night. The OBB features the choral part of the same theme song that was first introduced in 2016. The lower third graphics was reverted back to the DIN typeface, the news ticker has been reverted back to color black and its font uses John typeface, and the logo now only displays the number "24", dropping the "Oras" logo and in a dice format. The brand new set also uses a setup similar to that of ZDF's Heute in Germany, wherein computer-generated graphics integrate within the set in real time, creating a virtual studio. It currently uses alongside Augmented Reality graphics, for "Sumbungan Ng Bayan" and "Kapusong Totoo"segments, it also use for Christmas/New Year countdowns, or other related topic to emphasizes data gathering and issue explanation. On June 11, the newscast's OBB was shortened, but then back to its original version on August 26 and currently used.
In March 2020, due to the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Mike Enriquez and Mel Tiangco were physically absent from the newscast, leaving behind Vicky Morales as the sole regular anchor. Atom Araullo and Jessica Soho anchored the newscast for the meantime, while Iya Villania anchors the Chika Minute segment from her home. However, Tiangco's voice was still used for the Kapusong Totoo segment. On June 1, 2020, Mel and Mike returned as anchors of the newscast.
In February 2021, 24 Oras updated only is lower-third graphics, while the remainder of the graphics remain unchanged.
On October 11, 2021, following his departure from rival network ABS-CBN, Kim Atienza joined the program to anchor the #KuyaKimAnoNa segment.
On December 2021, Enriquez took another medical leave from the newscast, where he underwent a kidney transplant that required a 3-month isolation period. In January 2022, after almost two years anchoring remotely from home, Villania returned to the studios to anchor the segment Chika Minute.
On March 28, 2022, Enriquez returned to the newscast after a 3-months absence, albeit anchoring from a separate studio than Tiangco and Morales. He later took yet another medical leave in August 2022 after the 2022 elections in May, with Enriquez making his last appearance on August 12, 2022. Since August 15, 2022, during Enriquez's hiatus from the show, other anchors filled in for Enriquez, such as Atom Araullo, Connie Sison, weekend anchors Pia Arcangel and Ivan Mayrina, as well as GMA News reporters Raffy Tima, Mariz Umali, and Emil Sumangil, among others.
2023-present: Mel Tiangco, Vicky Morales, and Emil Sumangil
| “ | Malungkot pong ibinabalita ng GMA Network ang pagpanaw ng aming minamahal na Kapuso at kaibigan na si Mike Enriquez. | ” | |
—Mel Tiangco's announcement on the death of Mike Enriquez | |||
A billboard of 24 Oras on the GMA Network Center showing the new logo.
On March 13, 2023, Emil Sumangil joined as temporary replacement for Enriquez. On March 16, the 24 Oras OBB was updated again, this time removing clips of the anchors and replacing them with behind-the-scenes footages of the newscast, with Emil Sumangil providing the introductory voice. On March 21, the introduction is now provided by GMA's voice-over talent Al Torres, likely to rival that of ABS-CBN/Kapamilya Channel's TV Patrol. However, by March 29, it was reverted back to Emil Sumangil.
On August 7, 2023, Martin Javier joined the program to anchor the Game Changer segment.
On August 29, the 24 Oras anchors sadly and emotionally announced the passing of Mike Enriquez. Mel Tiangco and Vicky Morales wiped their tears away while reporting and during their closing spiel.
On November 20, 2 months following Enriquez's death, Emil Sumangil became a main anchor on the newscast, as well as a permanent replacement for Enriquez. It was during this time a new 24 Oras logo was revealed, with "ORAS" in a different font, which was later used in a promo plug mentioning about Sumangil as the main anchor.
On December 18, 2023, 24 Oras, alongside Saksi, the Unang Balita segment of Unang Hirit, Balitanghali, State of the Nation and GMA Integrated News Bulletin, revamped their graphics, logo, and music, as well as the OBB, which features rotating letters/logos akin to the 2013 and 2016 Marvel Studios logos. The change is part of GMA Integrated News's unified corporate identity. That same week, a new segment Kapuso Action Man was launched as the successor to Sumbungan ng Bayan.
On March 15, 2024, 24 Oras celebrated its 20th anniversary. On the same day, the newscast unveiled a new OBB showing evolution of past and present logos in the same vein as Columbia Pictures' 100th anniversary logo, also in 2024. The OBB now says "Live mula sa GMA Network Center, dalawampung taon nang nakatutok 24 Oras."
Anchors
- Mel Tiangco (2004-present)
- Vicky Morales (2014-present)
- Emil Sumangil (2023-present)
- Iya Villania (since 2015, Chika Minute)
- Kim Atienza (since 2021, #KuyaKimAnoNa)
- Martin Javier (since 2023, Game Changer)
Former Anchors
- Mike Enriquez † (2004-2022)
- Pia Guanio (Chika Minute anchor)
- Atom Araullo (Atomic Sports segment host)
- Chino Trinidad † (Time Out segment)
- Maureen Schrijvers (GMA Integrated News Weather Center anchor)
- Love Añover (Love Everyday segment reporter)
Segments
- #BosesMo
- Chika Minute
- Chika in a Minute
- Game Changer
- GMA Integrated News Weather Center
- Good News
- Kapuso Action Man
- Kapusong Totoo
- Special Report
- #KuyaKimAnoNa
Defunct
- Alerto 24
- Atomic Sports (renamed to Time Out after the departure of Atom Araullo from GMA until 2017)
- Balitang Abroad
- Bantay Probinsya
- Huli Cam
- Imbestigador ng Bayan (renamed to Sumbungan ng Bayan)
- IMReady: GMA Weather (renamed to GMA Integrated News Weather Center)
- Love Today
- Newsflash
- Pampa Good Vibes
- Patok of the Town
- Showbiz Time (initial name for Chika Minute)
- #SummerVibes
- Sumbungan ng Bayan (relaunched as Kapuso Action Man with Emil Sumangil following the death of Mike Enriquez)
- Summer Sparkle
- Usapang Pets
- Viral na 'To!
- YouScoop
- Pagbangon
- Ronda Probinsya
- ThinkTok
- Time Out (the departure of Chino Trinidad from GMA)
Trivia
- Running for 20 years, 24 Oras is the second-longest-running newscast of GMA Network, behind Saksi.
- The newscast is spoofed in Bubble Gang under the title "4 Oras".
- One of its episodes spoofing the newscast featured Mike Enriquez himself.
- The tagline and part of the closing spiel "Dahil hindi natutulog ang balita" is also parodied as "Dahil natutulog din ang tagapagbalita", implying that the news anchors went asleep as well after 4 hours.
- When GMA rolled out unified graphics for its newscasts, the logos use blue text; 24 Oras is the only newscast to use red text in their logos as red has been the newscast's prominent color since its inception in 2004.
- However, its 20th anniversary logo uses blue text for the "20 TAON" portion.
- Due to the GMA Integrated News newscasts using unified graphics since December 2023, 24 Oras may sometimes be mentioned on the ticker of other newscasts, such as Unang Balita and Balitanghali. This may be due to technical issues.
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