New Day (CNN Philippines)


New Day is the English language morning newscast of CNN Philippines. Patterned after its U.S. counterpart CNN New Day, it replaced CNN Philippines Headline News. The show premiered February 15, 2016, as part of a major programming revamp brought by the appointment of Armie Jarin-Bennett as managing editor of CNN Philippines. It airs weekdays from 6:00 AM. to 7:30 AM. PST. It is originally anchored by Headline News holdover, the late Amelyn Veloso, and Claudine Trillo, as well as CNN Philippines Sports Desk morning edition anchor Andrei Felix and Atty. Karen Jimeno.

History

New Day premiered on February 15, 2016, replacing CNN Philippines Headline News as English hard-news program of CNN Philippines. It is the second localized edition of a program of CNN Philippines. In October 2016, one of its anchors, Atty. Karen Jimeno left the newscast as she was appointed as Department of Transportation Officer, leaving Veloso, Trillo and Felix alone but she is still included in OBB. In February 2017, Veloso and Trillo left the show and were replaced by Claire Celdran, James Deakin, Christine Jacob-Sandejas and Angel Jacob as new anchors, leaving Felix the only remained pioneer host of the show. Meanwhile, Claire Celdran left the show and the morning edition of Newsroom due to needing more family time, but returned to the network to anchor the Weekend edition of CNN Philippines Newsroom. Also, Angel Jacob left the show as she focuses on her program, Leading Women and was replaced by Ria Tanjuatco-Trillo, Mike Alimurung, who was anchored his program "Business Roundup" and Dr. Freddie Gomez of "MedTalk/HealthTalk".

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