OFF-THE-AIR

Sana naman may programa din kayong salitang Pangalatok para masaya yong mga istorya,drama at comedy, tulad noon dito sa DWCM!– Hi sa mga taga Calasiao, Pangasinan, Philippines.-Thanks!

Annabelle
Linden, New Jersey, USA

Good afternoon,

I am right now tuned in to your Aksyon Radio Pangasinan and bit proud that Pangasinan is going online through Internet and reaching out worldwide.

I am based in Dubai, UAE and I would like to greet all of the staff of the newly broadcasting radio station online.

I hail from Calasiao, Pangasinan. I was trying to scout your contact number but it is not available in your web site.

Keep up the good work.

Merlo T. Ferrer

Aksyon Radyo had nice chat with Imelda last night. She first logged in the Aksyon Radyo YM and sent messages to the announcers on board at that time (6 to 10 pm, Pangasinan time). We realized later that she was actually in Israel a that time. Later in the show, she called the station to greet her family in the Philippines, as well as all radio listeners listening to the webcast around the world. It was a real time chat with a radio listener thousand of miles away, something Aksyon Radyo never imagined could happen.

Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan will be off-the-air on Tuesday, July 4, 2006, from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. because of power interruption in the franchise area of the Dagupan Electric Corporation. The National Transmission Corporation (Transco) in a notice said it has to turn off the power to give way to the commissioning of Labrador S/S 100 MVA T3 feeder breakers, among other reasons. We will go back on air as soon as the power returns. Thank you.

Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan finally begins its webcast today. Thanks to the Bitstop Team. By the way, here is a glimpse of the blessing and re-launching of Aksyon Radyo. Also here.

I continue to be hounded by questions on my resignation from the city hall. Some people even maliciously put political color into it, saying I have defected to Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez’s perceived opponent in the mayoralty race next year.

Of course, this is very far from the truth.

I gave up my position at the city hall — even if it was a career position – to finally fulfill my dream of becoming a full time journalist. Since I finished college, the only time I was a full time journalist was during my stint at Radyo ng Bayan, when I also moonlighted as news editor of The Weekly Guardian and eventually, as correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Most of the time in the last 22 years, I have either worked as a government information officer and a correspondent, as a teacher and a reporter, and so on.

But what is there in being a full time journalist, you may ask. Simple: It’s the freedom of movement. By being outside a restrictive 8 to 5 office structure, you can chase stories and beat deadlines and have fun. And it is in enjoying your work that you avoid stress, enabling you to be more focused and become more productive.

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First the bad news: Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan will not be airing on June 15 as announced. The good news is: it will have its initial broadcast on June 19. The management decided against going on air on a Thursday because we have a different Sunday programming. We simply cannot afford to have listeners tuning out after three days. So, we have to have the relaunch next Monday, which is incidentally, Rizal’s birthday.

Posted by Ivan Anthony Henares
Groundbreaking ceremonies scheduled for June 8, 2006

It is considered the long-needed solution for many woes in the Municipality of Rosales, Pangasinan. The Carmen Rosales Central Transport Terminal (CRCTT) will soon rise near the Pangasinan welcome arch along MacArthur Highway, hopefully solving the traffic problems hounding the Carmen intersection area as well as serve as the catalyst for further development of this growing municipality.

The first town of Pangsinan, Rosales is the gateway to the Ilocos Region. Carmen, Rosales is stragecally located along the crossroads of Pangasinan serving routes as far north as Tuguegarao in Cagayan and Vigan in Ilocos Sur. To the east, routes go as far as San Jose and Cabanatuan in Nueva Ecija; and to the west to Dagupan City. More routes are seen to commence in the near future and with the possible construction of an SM mall in Carmen, there is thus a need to organize the public transport system converging in Rosales via a central transport terminal.

This terminal will soon be a reality with construction for the CRCTT slated to begin on June 8, 2006 after groundbreaking ceremonies on the said day at 9 a.m. at the CRCTT site in Carmen. Mayor Ricardo V. Revita, Vice Mayor Romeo Sim and the Municipal Council of Rosales, Pangasinan, barangay captains of Rosales are expected to grace the groundbreaking ceremonies for this joint project of the Municipal Government of Rosales, Pangasinan and Hausland Development Corporation, who owns the property and who has graciously agreed to shoulder the entire cost of constructing the CRCTT.

We are on schedule for the soft launch on June 15. Today, we spent the whole day at the studio producing teaser plugs to be aired over sister stations Hot-FM and Love Radio in Dagupan. We also had discussions on the news center operations procedure that we will follow, as well as the code of ethics that will govern Aksyon Radyo. Everybody’s simply excited to have the station go back on air again.

Sorry for the long hiatus. Been very busy. Everytime I got the chance to post, I couldn’t organize my thoughts. Decided to better leave this blog as it is for a while. Anyway, in the coming days, this should become a more active blog: daily updates, posts from readers as well as radio listeners. Yes, I’m converting this into an Official Blog of Aksyon Radyo 1161 Pangasinan, where everybody can post anything: greetings, public service announcements, news stories, letters, etc., etc.