Bandila (TV program)


Bandila was a Philippine television late-night newscast broadcast by ABS-CBN, anchored by Karen Davila and Julius Babao. The program premiered on July 3, 2006, and most recently aired weeknights from 10:50PM to 11:20PM. It also airs worldwide via TFC.
As of March 17, 2020, the program is suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the shutdown of ABS-CBN.

History

Bandila debuted on July 3, 2006 replacing Insider, with Korina Sanchez, Henry Omaga-Diaz and Ces Oreña-Drilon as its original anchors.
On May 8, 2009, Sanchez took an indefinite leave and eventually left the newscast for good leaving Diaz and Drilon as the remaining anchors.
On November 3, 2010, ABS-CBN announced the appointment of outgoing TV Patrol anchors Julius Babao and Karen Davila to Bandila. Their arrival to the late-night newscast was scheduled to November 8, but was postponed when Babao was on a vacation at that time. They finally arrived to the newscast on November 22, replacing Omaga-Diaz who decided to return to field reporting.
On April 25, 2011, Bandila launched its as its additional online citizen journalism site
On October 3, 2011, Bandila moved to an earlier timeslot with the addition of Boy Abunda as one of the anchors, upon which it focuses on entertainment, hosting the segment Ikaw Na!, where Abunda interviews showbiz personalities. Abunda left the newscast on February 7, 2014 to host Aquino & Abunda Tonight, a new nightly talk show with Kris Aquino that would air right before Bandila.
On April 17, 2017, Bandila returned to DZMM and DZMM TeleRadyo after six years. Unlike the previous iteration which was a slightly delayed simulcast of the show that aired on the main ABS-CBN network, Bandila had a separate and standalone edition for DZMM 630AM and DZMM TeleRadyo and aired at 10:00 PM. The DZMM version ended again on May 20, 2019.
On December 21, 2017, Ces Oreña-Drilon announced that she would be leaving Bandila to focus on her new position in the network as "lifestyle content head".
On April 2, 2018, Bandila has finally switched to high definition format.
On March 17, 2020, Bandila's production was suspended due to the enhanced community quarantine done to help control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. It's timeslot was replaced by replays of TV Patrol. Furthermore, with the network shutting down operations due to the expiration of its legislative franchise and in compliance with the NTC's cease and desist order, the current status of the newscast remains unknown. Instead, ABS-CBN's former and ANC's current English late-night newscast, The World Tonight will be airing on the network's replacement channel, Kapamilya Channel starting July 27.

Anchors

Main anchors

Bandila airs worldwide on The Filipino Channel in Asia Pacific, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and the United States.
In Australia, SBS first aired the program with delayed telecast on the next morning at 6:50AM from Tuesdays to Saturdays, replacing PTV's Teledyaryo as the Filipino news service on Worldwatch. Bandila is also broadcast on the digital multichannel SBS World News Channel from Tuesdays to Saturdays on replay at 6:50AM, 3:00PM and 9:35PM. The new timeslot on SBS One/SBSHD is at 8:05AM every Tuesdays to Saturdays with replays at 2:30PM on SBS Two, while TV Patrol Weekend is shown every Sundays and Mondays.

Accolades

Bandilas coverage of the Subic rape case earned the news program a nomination for the Philippines in the International Emmy Awards spearheaded by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.