“It’s just like when you’re in the NBA, when you retire from basketball, hina-hang yung jersey mo,” said Vic Lima, Radyo Patrol 3. But they are common in the reporters’ need to prove themselves as effective news gatherers and storytellers and the pride and responsibility they ultimately felt upon their initiation into an envied group.Īnd that number sticks, even beyond retirement. The stories of how these Radyo Patrol (RP) earned and received their numbers vary. It’s a unique version of the journalist’s rite of passage only possible with the specs of radio. Zandro and Zhander are the latest to get theirs in a tradition begun and kept alive throughout the station’s 30 years. a call sign, is the dream of journalists who apply to become a Radyo Patrol, the tag for DZMM’s band of reporters. The DZMM Radyo Patrol 2016 in the 30th anniversary station ID. Zandro Ochona, Radyo Patrol 48, and Zhander Cayabyab, Radyo Patrol 49, finally got the numbers they’ve been waiting and working for for 5 years. “Noong nakita ko na naglalakad si Zandro on stage, alam ko na (When I saw Zandro also going up, I knew).” Someone opened the ballroom door and called out to him: “Hoy pumunta ka ng stage (Hey, go up the stage)!” Zhander was taking pictures with work mates then. They even thought it might not happen since the program was already ending then. He and Zhander already had an inkling of this early in the night, but decided not to expect much. Knowing what it meant, he fought tears as he walked towards them. Inside, Zandro saw ABS-CBN Integrated News head Ging Reyes and his boss, DZMM news gathering chief Edwin Sevidal, standing on the stage. ![]() But I wasn’t scheduled to dance!)” he said. E hindi naman ako sasayaw! (A PA suddenly called me back to the ballroom, saying I was needed inside. “Bigla akong pinabalik ng PA, sabi kailangan ako sa loob. ![]() It was a party-the 30th anniversary bash of DZMM last October 4 to be exact-and yet Zandro was working the remote TeleRadyo booth outside the ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Pasay, interviewing Radyo Patrol veterans for a live broadcast. Zandro and Zhander were both outside the room when it happened. Photo by Sofia Monica Regalado, ABS-CBN News
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