TMT TV runs test broadcast of EDSA forum with Enrile, Pimentel
Credit to Author: ARIC JOHN SY CUA| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:18:11 +0000
The Manila Times TV (TMT TV) ran a formal, live test broadcast of its whole-day news coverage and panel discussions on the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolt from its studio in its main office in Intramuros, Manila on Monday.
Tackling the issue, “33 Years after EDSA Revolution: May Ipinagbago Ba? (Has there been any meaningful change?),” the panel of guest speakers and analysts included two main characters of the political drama that unfolded on the highway between the police headquarters called Camp Crame and the military’s Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City — Juan Ponce Enrile, then Department of National Defense minister, and Aquilino Pimentel Jr., who later became part of President Corazon Aquino’s Cabinet as Department of Local Government minister.
Other guest panelists talked about how the Philippine political landscape has changed since the first popular uprising in the country that led to the collapse of the 20-year rule of then strongman Ferdinand Marcos.
They included political analyst Clarita Carlos, former ambassador and press attaché Alejandro del Rosario, Radio Veritas manager Fr. Larry Faraon, Capt. Proceso “Boy” Maligalig of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM), 1987 Constitution framer and former Commission on Elections chairman Christian Monsod, former Tawi-Tawi governor Al Tillah, journalist Belinda Olivares Cunanan, artist Cecile Guidote Alvarez, former Sen. Heherson “Sonny” Alvarez, Buhay party-list Rep. Lito Atienza, Efren Villaseñor, former University of the East College of Law dean Amado Valdez, former Interior Secretary Rafael Alunan 3rd, Ret. Gen. Victor Corpus, philosophy professor Rene Tadle, former Pasig City Rep. and Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Asssociation National Chairman Noel “Toti” Cariño, former Palawan governor Abraham “Baham” Mitra, former senator and broadcaster Edgardo “Eddie” Ilarde, broadcaster and Times columnist Ramon “Mon” Tulfo, journalist Ninez Cacho Olivares, and Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar.
Moderating the whole-day panel discussions were Times publisher-editor Nerilyn Tenorio and guest co-hosts, broadcaster Mario Garcia, actress-producer Jackie Aquino, broadcaster and Times columnist Tulfo, and Tribune founder and columnist Ninez Cacho Olivarez.
TMT TV had its first live test broadcast of the 2018 State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte, involving panel discussions before and after the speech.
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