TV Patrol Weekend is the weekend edition of ABS-CBN News' flagship newscast TV Patrol. It began airing as a Saturday edition on February 14, 2004 and later airing a Sunday edition on May 9, 2004.
It is currently anchored by Zen Hernandez and Adrian Ayalin.
History[]
Initially being aired during special occasions since its inception, the Saturday edition of TV Patrol titled TV Patrol Sabado premiered on February 14, 2004 at 7:30 p.m PHT, while the Sunday edition titled TV Patrol Linggo premiered on May 9, 2004 at 6:30 p.m. PHT, on the eve of the 2004 elections that is covered by ABS-CBN as Halalan 2004. Henry Omaga-Diaz and Ces Oreña-Drilon served as the first anchors of both weekend editions.
At the beginning, both editions were complemented by The Weekend News as ABS-CBN's weekend newscasts with TV Patrol Sabado and TV Patrol Linggo as early-evening newscasts and The Weekend News as late-night newscast until the latter was cancelled more than a year later. During this period, the weekend editions used to occupy middle evening time slots between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. PHT.
In 2005, Oreña-Drilon left the weekend editions for ABS-CBN Insider and was replaced by Bernadette Sembrano. On July 8, 2006, Alex Santos replaced Omaga-Diaz, as he went to Bandila on July 3, 2006.
On July 3, 2010, five days after the revert to debut title of the regular edition, the two weekend editions were merged into TV Patrol Weekend.
On November 26, 2011, Santos and Sembrano left the weekend edition and were replaced by Pinky Webb and Alvin Elchico.
On May 6, 2015, Webb left the network to later join CNN Philippines. With this, she was temporarily replaced alternately by various ABS-CBN reporters/anchors until Zen Hernandez became her permanent replacement on July 9, 2016.
On April 1, 2018, the weekend edition started to be shown in high definition.
Beginning March 21, 2020, the program expanded to 45 minutes in weekends, and on March 28 began airing on both DZMM TeleRadyo and ANC for the first time in 16 years (Sundays only, with program beginning a Saturday broadcast on ANC beginning April 25 that same year). The broadcast's return to DZMM TeleRadyo was the first to be aired there after ten years of absence.
On May 9, 2020, the weekend edition began to be aired in Cine Mo! after ABS-CBN and DZMM went off-air on May 5, 2020, due to cease-and-desist order from the National Telecommunications Commission after its franchise expired on May 4, 2020, while on TeleRadyo it began to broadcast on Saturdays. The newscast also extended its broadcast time to 50 minutes, and later on to a full hour.
On July 25 and 26, 2020, TV Patrol Weekend aired live from the TeleRadyo booth after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19, allowing the news studio to be disinfected before the newscast began airing on Kapamilya Channel. During this temporary measure, the TeleRadyo ticker was shown in both broadcasts of the said newscast.
On August 1, 2020, the weekend edition began airing on the Kapamilya Channel. On October 31, 2020, the weekend edition expanded its airtime from 45 minutes to an hour.
On January 1, 2022, the weekend edition returned on free-to-air television via simulcast on A2Z.
On June 17, 2023, following programming changes on Kapamilya Channel and A2Z, the newscast reduced its airtime to 45 minutes and returned to a timeslot of 5:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. PHT.
The newscast returned to AM Radio via DWPM on July 1, 2023. It is also carried over to TeleRadyo Serbisyo that same day. It also returned to channels 2 and 16 in Metro Manila via ALLTV on April 20, 2024, and via Prime TV on June 1, 2024.
On July 20, 2024, the newscast reverted into an hour once more on Sundays, but later expanded to Saturdays on October 5.
On September 1, 2024, Elchico (who served as TV Patrol Weekend's longest-serving anchor) made his final appearance on the newscast after nearly 13 years to join the regular weeknight edition of the program by the following day, replacing Omaga-Diaz, who left the aforementioned edition on August 30 to migrate to Canada. Hernandez was left as the sole regular anchor while various male reporters including TV Patrol Express anchor Jeff Canoy are rotated as the interim co-anchors. On December 30, 2024, during the closing spiel of the date's TV Patrol broadcast, Adrian Ayalin is confirmed to be Elchico's replacement for TV Patrol Weekend starting January 4, 2025.
On March 9, its Sunday edition was shortened to 45 minutes due to schedule changes. From March 15 to 23, Hernandez took hiatus from anchoring the newscast due to her being assigned to the Netherlands covering the situation surrounding the former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at the ICC following his arrest. On May 31, TV Patrol Weekend returned on DZMM and DZMM TeleRadyo for the first time in five years since the 2020 shutdown of DZMM.
Anchors[]
- Note: Current anchors are marked/highlighted in bold.
- Adrian Ayalin (2025–present)
- Alex Santos (2006-2011)
- Alvin Elchico (2011-2024)
- Bernadette Sembrano (2005-2011)
- Ces Oreña-Drilon (2004-2005)
- Henry Omaga-Diaz (2004-2006)
- Pinky Webb (2011-2015)
- Zen Hernandez (2016-present)
Interim/substitute anchors[]
- Johnson Manabat (2022–present)
- Jorge Cariño (2019–2022)
- Mike Navallo (2022)
- Pia Gutierrez (2015–2025)
- Stanley Palisada (2022)
- Victoria Tulad (2024–present)
- RG Cruz (2024–present)
- Raphael Bosano (2024–present)
- Jeff Canoy (2024–present)
- Katrina Domingo (2024–present)
- Denice Dinsay (2025–present)
Segment anchors[]
- Ariel Rojas (2022-present; Weather Patrol, during severe weather conditions (e.g.: landfalling typhoons, southwest monsoon)
Segments[]
- Busina sa Petrolyo
- Hanap: Buhay
- My Puhunan: Kaya Mo!
- Patrol ng Pilipino
- Star Patrol
- Alamin ang Batas
- Weather Patrol (occasionally during severe weather conditions)
Former[]
- Tapat Na Po!
Trivia[]
- TV Patrol Weekend is the longest-running Philippine television weekend newscast that has continuously aired on a weekend primetime slot despite timeslot and/or runtime changes. Second in place is GMA Network's 24 Oras Weekend, airing for over 15 years.
