Korina back as news anchor, replaces Dong in Insider

BREAKING NEWS: Korina Sanchez will be back as news anchor effective first week of July (or thereof).

Gone from newscasting for more than two years, Korina will replace Dong Puno as co-anchor of the late-night ABS-CBN newscast Insider which will be changed to Bandila once Korina assumes her post. Ces Drilon is retained as Bandila co-host, with Henry Omaga-Diaz completing the team.

It’s actually a comeback to the same timeslot for Korina who used to co-host the late-night newscast Pulso, Aksyon, Balita with Ted Failon. Insider replaced PAB and was originally anchored by Erwin Tulfo (now with RPN 9) and Bernadette Sembrano (host of Nagmamahal Kapamilya and co-host of the ABS-CBN early-morning show Magandang Umaga Pilipinas).

Korina was co-host of TV Patrol, now known as TV Patrol World, with Julius Babao who now anchors the same newscast with Karen Davila and Failon. Korina hosts the Sunday show Rated K which was put up after she left TV Patrol.

According to The STAR informer, the Insider reshuffle of hosts is part of the ongoing reformatting of some ABS-CBN shows (not including The Buzz, clarified Roxy Liquigan, one of the show’s producers who corrected an earlier Funfare item).