Frontline Pilipinas

Frontline Pilipinas is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by TV5. The program is currently anchored by Cheryl Cosim and Julius Babao. The newscast premiered on October 5, 2020 on the network's TodoMax Primetime Singko line-up replacing Aksyon. It is also simulcast through the Filipino-language news channel One PH and English-language news channel One News. Raffy Tulfo is a previous anchor of the newscast.

The newscast continues the tradition of sign language interpretation that News5 pioneered during the launch of now-defunct Aksyon a decade earlier.

History
Frontline Pilipinas premiered on October 5, 2020 on the 6:30 p.m. timeslot with Raffy Tulfo and Cheryl Cosim as the original anchors, along with News5 chief Luchi Cruz-Valdes, chief correspondent Ed Lingao, and Lourd de Veyra as segment anchors for Deretsahan, NEWS ExplainED, and Word of the Lourd respectively. The program serves as permanent replacement to TV5's longest-running flagship newscast replacing Aksyon, which ended abruptly on March 16, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the two One-branded newscasts which aired on TV5. The following week, the program moved to the 6:00 p.m. timeslot to give way to the 2020 PBA Philippine Cup and new primetime programming.

On February 15, 2021, athlete and TV host Gretchen Ho joined the newscast (alongside The Big Story on One News) as the Sports segment anchor. On February 22, 2021, the program extended its running time from 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes as part of the network's programming changes. On April 5, 2021, the program moved to the 5:30 p.m. timeslot with a shortened 1-hour running time to give way for the new programs produced by CS Studios. Beginning on July 16, 2021, the Wednesday and Friday editions are shortened to 30 minutes to give way to the broadcast of the 2021 PBA season. On September 20, 2021, the newscast moved to an earlier timeslot from 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. with 1 hour and 15 minutes every Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Timeslots for Wednesdays and Fridays remain at 5:30 p.m. but shortened to 45 minutes instead.

On October 1, 2021, Raffy Tulfo bid farewell to the newscast after almost a year. The following day, Tulfo filed his certificate of candidacy to run for Senate. Leaving Cosim as the anchor of the newscast alongside Cruz-Valdes, Lingao, De Veyra and Ho as segment hosts. Julius Babao was named as his replacement, joining the newscast on February 7, 2022. Babao was originally to make his debut on January 17, but was postponed due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases brought by the omicron variant. Ed Lingao took over as interim anchor of the newscast.

Main anchors

 * Cheryl Cosim (since 2020)
 * Julius Babao (since 2022)

Segment anchors

 * Luchi Cruz-Valdes (since 2021, Deretsahan with Luchi Cruz-Valdes)
 * Ed Lingao (since 2020, NEWS ExplainED; fill-in anchor for Bediones and Tulfo)
 * Lourd de Veyra (since 2020, Word of the Lourd)
 * Gretchen Ho (since 2021, Sports)

Former anchors

 * Raffy Tulfo (2020-2021, Action Man)

Segments

 * Abroad
 * Action Man  (Public Service)
 * Deretsahan with Luchi Cruz-Valdes
 * NEWS ExplainED (Explainer)
 * Showbiz
 * Sports
 * Una sa Lahat (Intro)
 * Weather
 * Word of the Lourd (Editorial)

Accolades
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