Dateline Philippines is the flagship midday newscast of the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) that talks about the day's major stories from politics, business, sports, entertainment, international and local headlines. Its broadcast focuses on news from the country's more than 7,000 islands gathered by ABS-CBN Regional stations (formerly ABS-CBN Regional Network Group), the most extensive news-gathering group nationwide.
| Dateline Philippines | |
|---|---|
 Titlecard used since October 26, 2015 | |
| Genre | News program |
| Created by | ABS-CBN Corporation |
| Developed by | ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs |
| Presented by | Weekday anchors Karmina Constantino Weekend anchors Raine Musngi |
| Country of origin | Philippines |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | n/a (airs daily) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABS-CBN News Channel |
| Release | July 8, 1996 – present |
It is one of the original newscast of ANC since its inception on July 8, 1996, now notable being the network's longest running original newscast. Anchored by Karmina Constantino and on weekdays and by Raine Musngi on weekends. It airs daily at 12:00 NN to 1:00 PM (PST).
Covid-19 Pandemic
However, the production of the newscast's Sunday edition was halted on March 22, 2020, due to the enhanced community quarantine done to help control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines and was replaced by provisional programming from the ANC on the same date, as well as the extended edition of Headstart From April 26, 2020 when the timesharing of programming between both DZMM TeleRadyo & ANC ended. It’s Airs Monday-Saturday at 12:00 - 1:00 pm.
Anchors
Weekdays
- Karmina Constantino
Weekend anchor
- Raine Musñgi
Previous anchors and segment presenters
- Frankie Evangelista
- Joyce Burton-Titular
- Kathy San Gabriel
- Gene Orejana
- Harry Gasser (segment anchor from ABS-CBN Cebu)
- Ron Cruz (Currently anchor for newscasts Top Story, The Bureau, News Now Weekend, ANC Headlines, and The World Tonight Weekend)
- Ryan Gamboa (segment anchor, ABS-CBN Bacolod)
- Gretchen Fullido (segment anchor, showbiz and weather; Currently as Star Patrol segment presenter for TV Patrol)
- Ricky Carandang
- Pinky Webb (moved to CNN Philippines)
- Tony Velasquez (Currently anchor for The World Tonight)
- Caroline Howard
- Alvin Elchico (Currently anchor for TV Patrol Weekend)
- Boyet Sison ("Hardball" segment host)
See also
- List of programs shown on the ABS-CBN News Channel
- ABS-CBN News Channel
- ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs
- Headline Pilipinas - Filipino-language regional newscast of DZMM TeleRadyo