Latest TV Ratings

As featured in today's issue (January 15, 2007) of BusinessWorld, the
country's most popular business newspaper, at section S3, page 3,
ABS-CBN remains the undisputed no.1 network in the Philippines!!!!


Latest AGB Nielsen Media Research NUTAM Panel

Week ending January 6, 2007

from 2:00 AM to 11:59 PM


National Urban Philippines (Urban Areas of the Philippines)

In Terms of Households:

Channel/Rating/Audience Share

Total TV/ 28.2/ 100

ABS-CBN/ 12.2/ 43.1

GMA/ 10.2/ 36.9

All Cable/ 2.4/ 8.4

QTV 11/ 0.9/ 3.2

ABC/ 0.8/ 2.9

Studio 23/ 0.6/ 2.1

RPN/ 0.3/ 1.2

NBN/ 0.2/ 0.6

IBC/ 0.1/ 0.5

NET 25/ 0.1/ 0.2

SBN/ 0/ 0.1

RJTV/ 0/ 0.1

In Terms of Individuals


Total TV/ 13.7/ 100

ABS-CBN/ 5.9/ 42.7


GMA/ 5.3/ 38.7

All Cable/ 1/ 7.4

QTV 11/ 0.4/ 3.

ABC/ 0.4/ 2.8

Studio 23/ 0.3/ 1.9


RPN/ 0.2/ 1.2

NBN/ 0.1/ 0.6

IBC/ 0.1/ 0.5

NET 25/ 0/ 0.2

SBN/ 0/ 0.1

RJTV/ 0/ 0

(MTV Philippines is not included in the list because it has signed-off
(unfortunately) since January 1, to resume broadcast (if i'm not
wrong) on Feb or March)

TOP 10 Programs (in terms of households)

Current Rank/ Previous wk's Rank/ Program Title/ Network/ Rating/
Audience Share

1/ NA/ Kapamilya, Deal or no Deal 4M Edition / ABS-CBN/ 33.8/ 49.7

2/ 1/ Kapamilya, Deal or no Deal (Original)/ ABS-CBN/ 31.8/ 51.3

3/ 2/ Super Inggo/ ABS-CBN/ 31.4/ 49.2

4/ 15/ XXX/ ABS-CBN/ 29.5/ 48.5

5/ 3/ Komiks/ ABS-CBN/ 28.8/ 49.2

6/ 5/ Maging Sino Ka Man (TV-Series)/ABS-CBN / 28.5/ 50.0

7/ 4/ TV Patrol World/ ABS-CBN/ 28.1/ 46.6

8/ 6/ John En Shirley/ ABS-CBN/ 24.9/ 41.0

9/ 9/ Wowowee/ ABS-CBN/ 24.4/ 51.5

10/ 19/ Maalala Mo Kaya/ 24.0/ 47.1

In Terms of Individuals

1/ NA/ Kapamilya Deal or no Deal 4M Edition/ ABS/ 18.1/ 48.1

2/ 2/ Super Inggo/ ABS/ 17.5/ 48.6

3/ 1/ Kapamilya Deal or no Deal (Original)/ ABS/ 17.2/ 51.2

4/ 4/ Maging Sino Ka Man (TV-Series)/ ABS/ 15.8/ 50.1

5/ 3/ Komiks/ ABS/ 15.1/ 50.3

6/ 13/ XXX/ ABS/ 15.1/ 46.6

7/ 5/ Captain Barbell (TV-Series)/ GMA/ 13.9/ 37.6

8/ 7/ TV Patrol World/ ABS/ 13.9/ 45.4

9/ 6/ John En Shirley/ ABS/ 13.2/ 41.1

10/ 9/ 24 Oras/ GMA/ 12.9/ 41.7

Why not? ... from YOUNGBLOOD of INQUIRER.net

YOUNGBLOOD
Why not?
By Che Zablan
Inquirer
Last updated 02:05am (Mla time) 01/13/2007

I AM a doctor to the barrio. For most people, I could not have made a better choice, but for a very few, I could not have made a worse or crazier one. In fact, the moment I utter those words, I see all sorts of reactions.

My family and friends are primarily concerned over my safety. After all, I could be assigned anywhere in the Philippines.

My superiors and colleagues, on the other hand, are afraid that I might stagnate professionally. The normal course for a newly licensed physician is to specialize. I won't be able to do that in the rural areas.

Most people who first hear about my decision give me that you-must-be-crazy look and demand to know why. I have learned to just smile and vaguely explain that I really have nothing better to do or that I haven't decided which medical field to specialize in. Sometimes, I am tempted to lie and say I am going abroad. This answer, I am sure, I would not have to explain myself.

It never fails to amaze me that people find it unusual that a young doctor would decide to work in the barrios and normal for him to work abroad. I thought I'd never find the perfect answers to all their questions until I was sent to a highland municipality in the northern province of Ilocos Sur.

My father felt reassured when I told him I have never felt safer in my entire life. I don't speak Ilocano. I don't know a single soul in the place. But when I walk on the street, everybody greets me. My dining table never runs out of fruits and vegetables given by the people. They invite me to dine in their homes although I am a total stranger.

This is contrary to what I experience every day in Manila. There, everybody speaks Filipino, but I feel like I could be mugged anytime. I could go around the whole metropolis without a single soul greeting me, much less inviting me to dine with their families. I am actually starting to feel that my family and friends in the city are the ones who need to take care.

It was tough to put on hold my dream of becoming an OB-gyn. However, I can still train to be one in a couple of years. That can wait, but the patients I serve might not make it if they don't see a doctor right now. And while I may have put on hold my professional growth, I am definitely working on my personal growth.

I finally understood what being alone means on my first night and being independent on my first week here. I've realized what determination means when I see children walking five kilometers to get to school. I see what hard work means every time I see a farmer working under the sun in the middle of the day. Most importantly, I am learning what a doctor should do: to make a difference in people's lives.

There are nights when I feel like paying a thousand bucks just to have a cup of caramel macchiato or pay slight less than that for a choco nutty sprinkle donut. However, these cravings are gone as soon as I get freshly brewed kapeng barako and kalamay—of course, for free.

On days when I can't find the perfect medicine or order the ideal laboratory procedure, I am sorely tempted to take a bus back to Manila. But these are soon forgotten when I cross hanging bridges and rivers or walk along rice terraces just to see my patients.

When I get the you-must-be-crazy look, I tell people about the hanging bridges and rice terraces, but most of all about the barrio's most important treasure: its people. They make my job so much easier. When they say thank you, they mean it. When they ask me how I am, they care enough to wait for my response. These are the people who teach me every day that simple living is so much better.

But when I am sick of answering why I chose to be a doctor to the barrio, I just say, "Why in the world not?"

Che Zablan, 28, is employed under the Department of Health's Doctors to the Barrios Program.

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Waiting... from YOUNGBLOOD of INQ7.net

YOUNGBLOOD
Waiting
By Aisa M. De La Torre
Inquirer
Last updated 00:30am (Mla time) 01/11/2007

ONE thing that I promised myself a long time ago was that I would never be like my mother.

Our "Nanay" [Mother], whom my siblings and I love so much, is a perfect mother and a perfect wife. Through the years she has nurtured us as best as she could because "Tatay" [Father] is away most of the time. I’ve seen her cry countless times because she misses my father or she feels overwhelmed by the responsibilities of raising five kids practically all by herself.

I grew up seeing my parents suffer from not being together like a wife and husband should be. My father is home for only two to three months every year and then he is off again for another 10 months of work abroad. It makes me sad to see my mother patiently waiting for his calls or his letters. I worry when she worries. I cry when she cries. I know it is difficult to be a mother and a father at the same time. I can see how hard it can be not to have your better half beside you when things seem to be falling apart, to hold your hands and tell you everything will be fine. So I told myself that if I have my own family someday, I would never let myself be caught in the same situation and experience the same feelings my mother have.

Our family is like many other Filipino families nowadays, with at least one parent is working overseas. My father works in a luxury ship that travels around the world. Some people think that if your father or mother works abroad, you are lucky because then you can buy so many things. But material things cannot fill one’s longing for a dear father.

Our life is typical of a Filipino family with relatives abroad. We exchange letters, send greeting cards, receive regularly "balikbayan" boxes containing imported goods like chocolates, perfumes, shirts, sneakers, and sometimes even shampoos and lotions.

That is what my father is: responsible and sensitive to our needs. He provides us with everything, down to the smallest item. Even though he’s not around on some special occasions, his children know that he is trying his best to give us the good life he never had.

Father never fails to give us advice, either through letters or -- my favorite -- greeting cards. Despite the Internet, we still prefer the old methods of communication: snail mail and long-distance calls.

I was in Grade 6 when father started working abroad. And that was when the letters and cards, containing important pieces of advice, started coming. Father constantly reminded me that being the eldest of five children, I should take care of Nanay and my two brothers and two sisters; that I should study hard because education is the only thing we could call our own; that I should not enter into a romantic relationship until I finished college.

Through his letters, father was able to guide me despite his absence. He told me it’s nobody’s fault that we were poor. He emphasized to us that our own destiny was in our hands and that we shouldn’t wait for miracles or good fortune to happen.

For years, his cards and letters arrived, the same pieces of advice repeated over and over again.

In return I tried hard not to disappoint them. I finished my studies and found a stable job and it was a joy to see that I made Nanay and Tatay proud of me. That’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciated their sacrifices. It’s my way of showing how much grateful I was for being able to study in the university of my choice, something that we couldn’t afford if father didn’t work abroad.

Nowadays no one is surprised to know that somebody else is abroad and earning high pay. But I, for one, never considered it a normal situation to have members of the same family living apart. But working abroad has become a necessity for many.

It is very hard to be in a long-distance relationship, to be separated from someone dear to you. Endless questions bother you: What if he gets sick, who will take care of him? When he feels homesick, who will be there to comfort him? One cannot help but worry.

But hard as it is for us who are left here waiting, I believe it is even harder for those who are away because they often feel lonely and alone even when they are in the company of other Filipinos.

But fate has this nasty habit of playing with our lives. And for me, the day that I never thought would happen has come. I am waiting for someone who is away, working in a distant land. He is the special someone who told me that I needed a lot of patience to survive feelings of loneliness and emptiness.

Every day before I report for work, I patiently wait for him in the chat room to check if he had come home from work. Every day I wake up excited to read his e-mail. Thanks to modern technology, I no longer have to wait for two weeks for the postman before I could get some news about him.

Now I am walking on the same path my parents took. Heck, even my sister and her fiancé are in the same situation, being apart temporarily for the same financial reason. But who are not?

I was wrong to say I would never let myself be caught in the situation my mother was. I have realized that love is such a strong force that moves people to do things they thought they would never do.

At home these days, one often hears some very familiar words. But while one used to hear a younger sibling shout, “'Nay, telephone call, si Tatay po,” now it is, “Ate, telephone call, si Kuya Marc.”

I count the days when I will see him again. In the meantime, just like my mother and my sister, I am waiting.

Aisa M. De la Torre, 24, has a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of the Philippines.

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Philippine TV Ratings January 8, 2007

Sis 13.4%

Homeboy 12.4%

 

YH 22.0%

GKNB 16.5%

 

EB 24.1%

WWW 20.9%

 

DS 19.8%, MKLM 14.0%

KC 11.8%

 

KMF 15.5%

IDT 10.5%, BEET 5.4%(nabeet ata tayo ng mga kanguso!)

 

GF 16.7%

NARUTO 8.2%

 

JITP 19.2%

PSY 13.5%

 

24 ORAS 31.6%

TVPW 26.0%

 

CB 32.8% (magtatapos na nga pero ang baba pa rin!)

DOND 29.3%

 

ATL 30.3%

SI 26.7%

 

SS4 27.0%, BAKEKANG 25.6%

SMM (PILOT) 31.5% (mataas nga pero tatagal kaya!)

 

JUMONG (PILOT) 19.6% (nilampaso!)

MSKM 27.9%

 

LKIK 14.8%

PH 21.1% (ito ang magandang tapatan!)

 

SAKSI 10.9%

BANDILA 9.5%

 

IWIT 6.3%

NOYPI 4.6%, MDM 2.3%

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Originally posted as a link on the Something Awful forums, I saved and uploaded it to google video before it died.

2 ABS-CBN programs finalists in prestigious New York Festivals

2 ABS-CBN programs finalists in prestigious New York Festivals

A prime time newscast and a news and current affairs program of ABS-CBN have been chosen as finalists and are vying for top awards in the prestigious New York Festivals International Television Programming and Promotions Awards, ABS-CBN News reported Friday.

Reports said that TV Patrol World and The Correspondent were chosen as finalists in their respective categories for television programs worldwide in the 2007 TV Programming and Promotion competition.

ABS-CBN News learned that TV Patrol World and The Correspondents episode "Rugby" are strong contenders to be  among the medallists for the best newscast and best news magazine category respectively.

The annual TV Programming and Promotion competition bestows Grand Awards and  gold, silver and bronze worldmedals for different categories.

It was learned that the Philippine Mt. Everest Expedition is also a finalist in the news promotion category.

The awards give recognition to the world's best work in news, documentary, information and entertainment programming.

Now on its 48th year, the group also gives credit to music videos, infomercials, promotion spots, openings and IDs.

TV Programming and Promotion entries were judged by hundreds of producers, directors, writers and other media professionals in the US while programming entries were reviewed live by panels of industry experts in New York City and TV stations around the world and promotional entries. Promotional entries, on the other hand, were judged online.

Winners of the competition will be announced at the awarding ceremony to be held on February 2, 2007 at the Downtown Auditorium located at Lower Manhattan's Financial District at No. 41 Broad Street and Exchange Street in New York City.

Holiday greetings from YOUNGBLOOD of INQ7.net

YOUNGBLOOD
Holiday greetings
By Heherson U. Butac
Inquirer
Last updated 02:36am (Mla time) 12/23/2006

Published on Page A13 of the December 23, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

DEAR PUBLIC SERVANTS (A.K.A. POLITICIANS):

Before anything else, let me greet you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

I would like to return the favor of being greeted by your colorful posters and streamers every morning as I pass by the streets of your respective districts. As early as the first week of December, I could already feel the spirit of Christmas because of your Christmas greetings and wishes for peace and goodwill, not to mention your "star-struck" smiles which never fail to put a smile on my face.

Your posters seem to be a common sight this season. They are in public places and even pasted on private walls. They are nailed to trees and electric posts.

I think every street already has some kind of greetings from you. I remember seeing posters and streamers similar to these Christmas posters, but with different greetings, such as "Happy Fiesta," "Happy Halloween," "Congratulations Graduates," etc. These greetings come from the same people. Similar faces, similar smiles, similar names are on those posters containing different greetings. I suppose the pictures on your posters are your best or perhaps you do not have any other picture, because every year I am being greeted by the same face, the same hairstyle, the same dress, the same posture.

Some of you have become so creative in designing streamers so that only the greetings need to be changed to fit the occasion, be it a fiesta, graduation, Easter, Christmas, etc. Of course that is an economical way to do it, but there is always the risk that others will notice it and think you are insincere.

I keep trying to convince myself all this exposure is in fulfillment of your obligation as public servants to reach out to your constituents. The people need to feel that their leaders care for them and so they are present at every celebration that is significant to them.

But more often, I am skeptical about the purpose of your posters and streamers. Are they really intended to spread the spirit of Christmas in its meaningful sense or are they part of your publicity campaign for the next elections?

Correct me if I am wrong, but I have noticed some kind of pattern in the contents of your posters and streamers. They always carry your close-up pictures in which you are either smiling or grinning like a show-biz personality and your greetings and of course your name in big letters.

I have also observed that your pictures and names practically crowd out your messages. In fact, they give me the impression that your names and faces are the only things you want the people to see and read—not your greetings. If the purpose of your posters and streamers are to greet your constituents on special occasions, is it not logical that the greetings should be larger than your names?

Assuming you are sincere in wishing everyone will be happy during this Christmas season or on any other occasion, is it absolutely essential that they be reminded of how you look like and that the greetings come from you? The public just might wonder why their public servants are like show-biz personalities competing for exposure. Your posters even compete for attention with other billboards along the highways as if you are endorsing some products.

Do you really think that people will believe that you are serving them well with your greetings pasted on posters and streamers? It is quite obvious that their purpose is political. They are not much different from the campaign posters scatted all over the land when elections are approaching. In fact, when such greetings appear in profusion, I am reminded that the next elections are only a few months away.

Have you ever paused to consider if your posters and streamers benefit the majority of our people in any way? Most people I know think they are a waste of paper and ink and money. What our people need are projects that help lift them out of poverty or improve their standard of living.

I do not mean to tell you how to spend your own money, but something tells me you are not using your money to put up all those posters and streamers. And considering how much your colorful posters and streamers must have cost, I can think of more than a dozen ways it could be better spent, like buying food and other basic necessities and distributing them to our less fortunate countrymen as gifts for Christmas. I know that most of you already have programs to distribute relief goods to some depressed areas in your towns or districts. But you could have reached more people if you had used the money for your posters and streamers to buy more essential items for your constituents.

I have also noticed that when you distribute goods to the poor, you don't forget to put your smiling pictures and your names on the plastic bags. Can you not give away anything without forcing others to know it came from you and therefore they should be grateful to you? Can you not give anymore without expecting something in return? Jesus gave his life to save sinners, but He never asked anyone to put up a sign saying, "I saved this soul—Jesus Christ." Can you no longer give for the sake of giving? I know that there is no such thing as a free lunch, but can you not make an exception of this holy season?

My dear public servants, please pardon my naivete or lack of understanding of "political realities." I just thought you might need something to reflect upon during the holidays. May the true spirit of Christmas be with you all!

Heherson U. Butac, 20, is a fourth year accounting student at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

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