Big News

The Big News is the evening television news program of ABC 5. It was the first evening news program on Philippine television. It aired from March 19, 1962 to September 22, 1972, and again from February 21, 1992 to August 8, 2008, and was replaced by TEN: The Evening News, it was last anchored by Amelyn Veloso, Atty. Mike Toledo, and Cherie Mercado.

The Big News, first era (1962-1972)
It was originally anchored by Duds Rivera and Bong Lapira with Antonio Tecson as head of the newsroom. Lapira later left the newscast in 1967 to transfer to ABS-CBN to anchor Newsbreak on DZXL-TV Channel 9. He was replaced by Jose Mari Velez. The show first aired on March 19, 1962 and went off the air in 1972 due to martial law.

The Big News, second era (1992-2004)
On February 21, 1992, as ABC returned to the airwaves, the program resumed its telecast, but this time, it was anchored by Eric Eloriaga and Tina Monzon-Palma. In 1993, they were joined in by Kathy Tanco-Ong. In 1997, they were replaced by Anthony Pangilinan, Thelma Dumpit-Murillo, who also anchors the network's early evening Filipino newscast Balitang Balita and Janice Pronstroller as its new anchors. Monzon-Palma went to become anchor of ABS-CBN's late night newscast The World Tonight while Eloriaga became anchor of RPN's NewsWatch, both newscast's main rivals during pre-Martial Law days.

On May 3, 1999, Amelyn Veloso became the new anchor of the newscast. On May 22, 2000, Veloso was joined by Rod Nepomuceno as her co-anchor. On June 3, 2002, Nepomuceno was replaced by Atty. Mike Toledo.

Big News (2004-2008)
On April 12, 2004, when the network reformatted most of its programs, former ABS-CBN anchor Cherie Mercado and joined with Veloso and Toledo as a co-anchor and the newscast switched to Filipino in order to compete with the other networks' newscasts.

On October 2, 2006, the newscast exchanged timeslots with Sentro, the early-evening news program of the network.

On August 8, 2008, the program, together with Sentro aired its final broadcast and on the next day (August 9), it rebranded as TV5.

First incarnation

 * Duds Rivera (1962–1972)
 * Bong Lapira (1962–1967)
 * Jose Mari Velez (1967–1972)

Second incarnation

 * Eric Eloriaga (1992–1997)
 * Tina Monzon-Palma (1992–1997)
 * Kathy Tanco-Ong (1993–1997)
 * Anthony Pangilinan (1997–2000)
 * Janice Pronstroller (1997–1999)
 * Thelma Dumpit-Murillo (1997–1999)
 * Amelyn Veloso (1999–2008)
 * Rod Nepomuceno (2000–2002)
 * Atty. Mike Toledo (2002–2004)
 * Cherie Mercado (2004–2008)

Substitute anchors

 * Jove Francisco
 * Martin Andanar