Ces Oreña-Drilon is a Filipino journalist and broadcaster. She anchored Bandila from 2006 to 2017.
Career[]
Ces Oreña-Drilon began her television career in 1985 when she joined the Maharlika Broadcasting System (now People's Television Network) as a news reporter. Her reporting on the capture of Army renegade Col. Gregorio Honasan caught the attention of ABS-CBN Network, which hired her in 1989 to cover the Philippine Senate. She appeared regularly on The World Tonight as the program's business correspondent.
Together with Cathy Yap-Yang, she hosted Usapang Business, a weekly business-oriented show which was soon cancelled due to budget cuts. She later presented several news and current affairs programs for ABS-CBN and for the ABS-CBN News Channel, including Pipol and The Correspondents. Since the 2000s, Oreña-Drilon has served as a co-anchor of the ABS-CBN late-night news program Bandila with Korina Sanchez and Henry Omaga-Diaz (later replaced by Karen Davila and Julius Babao), and as an alternate anchor for TV Patrol.
In 2007, Oreña-Drilon was among several Filipino journalists covering the Manila Peninsula rebellion who were briefly detained by the Philippine military, shortly after the mutiny was quashed.
In June 2008, Oreña-Drilon, along with her companions, were kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu but were later released.
In July 2020, Oreña-Drilon was retrenched by ABS-CBN as the network was shut down by both the National Telecommunications Commission and Office of the Solicitor General last May due to an expired franchise and Congress rejected its fresh 25-year franchise. She returned to farming.
