Vicky Morales is a Filipino newscaster and TV host. She currently co-anchors GMA Network's night newscast 24 Oras with Emil Sumangil and Mel Tiangco, and also hosts the documentary-drama show Wish Ko Lang!
Career[]
In 1990, after graduating college, Morales secretly applied for an anchor spot in GMA Headline News (the now-defunct late night English language news program of GMA Network) who would join the program's news presenters Tina Monzon-Palma and Jose Mari Velez. After then GMA's AVP for News Dan de Padua called Vicky, she was eventually hired as the news anchor for GMA Headline News and bested 500 other applicants. She anchored a segment of the said late news program entitled "Good News," which, incidentally, would become the title of her own news magazine program in 2011.
After ending her work at GMA Headline News, then GMA executive Tony Seva asked Vicky to reunite with Dong Puno on his morning news program entitled Business Today. After two years doing a morning show, she returned to evening news and anchored GMA Network News, which, first started in the English language and later reformatted in 1999 in the Filipino language.
In 1999, Morales started to be the news presenter of the late night Filipino language news program Saksi. The 1999-2004 edition of Saksi featured her former partner and Imbestigador host Mike Enriquez, who was the co-anchor with her in the 1999 Filipino language edition of GMA Network News. In 2004, Morales continued to news presenter of the late night Filipino language news program Saksi with new co-anchor Arnold Clavio and a new the program host replaced Bernadette Sembrano of Wish Ko Lang!. She was already part of I-Witness before entering Wish Ko Lang!
Upon the opening of the GMA News TV channel in 2011, she was given the program entitled Good News Kasama si Vicky Morales. The channel was later rebranded to GTV and Vicky's show was carried over. On November 10, 2014, Morales became a co-anchor in GMA Network's 6:30 PM news program, 24 Oras, becoming the newscast's third anchor, after being with Saksi for the last 15 years and was replaced by Pia Arcangel.
TV programs[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1991 | GMA Headline News | ||
| 1992 | GMA Network News | ||
| 1999 | Saksi | ||
| 2004 | Wish Ko Lang! | ||
| 2011 | Good News Kasama si Vicky Morales | ||
| 2014 | 24 Oras | ||
| 2020 | Ilaban Natin Yan! |
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