This week, a team of anchormen from Aksyon Radyo Iloilo, namely award-winning Joel Tormon, Jay Balnig and Alvin Dennis Arabang, will be leaving for the United States to bring to the Ilonggo radio audience a blow-by-blow account of the Nov. 4 presidential elections.
Tormon will report from Chicago, Balnig from San Francisco and Arabang will broadcast from New York to give local color to the most exciting elections in the whole world. No other radio network in the country has done this before. In 1996, I was working in New York when Bill Clinton ran for re-election agains Bob Dole, and then Bombo Radyo anchorman John Paul Tia (now station manager of Aksyon Radyo) made me an instant correspondent to report on the election.
The deployment of these anchormen in the U.S. is a big leap for Aksyon Radyo and reinforces its claim to being global in scope. The internet audio streaming of Aksyon Radyo is considered one of the best, and its website (www.aksyonradyoiloilo.net) provides listeners with broader content that includes the photography of Leo Solinap.
This is also a signal that our radio stations are discarding parochial viewpoints and adopting a broader perspective of its reporting and commentary.
