MANILA, Philippines - Solar News Channel launches the first and only newscast in Kapampangan dialect airing nationwide via free TV. Kapampangan News provides useful and relevant information and inspiring stories for its viewers, weekdays at 1:30 p.m. starting Aug. 4.
The 30-minute Kapampangan News, with Central Luzon as its take-off point, will focus on news stories with national and regional importance as well as light stories on entertainment, business, foreign news, the latest on gadgets and weather reports.
Kapampangans will find interesting the show’s different segments like Dangalan Kapampangan (Kapampangan Pride), a weekly human-interest story that focuses on Kapampangan food, culture, the arts and personalities with their success stories; Siping Bale (Neighbor), a weekly segment presenting interesting facts from neighboring provinces in Central Luzon, namely Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Bataan, Tarlac, Zambales and Aurora; Balita Ka Reng Dyaryu (Newspaper Headlines) presents the day’s newspaper banner stories in Central Luzon; and Amanu (Word) features a Kapampangan word of the day, its English translation and its usage in everyday conversations. It aims to enliven Kapampangan words that are seldom used these days as well as to educate the younger Kapampangan generations.
Nicolette Henson will anchor Kapampangan News. A former beauty queen, Henson graduated cum laude with a degree in A.B. Mass Communication Minor in Broadcast Journalism at St. Scholastica’s College.
Kapampangan News is the latest addition to Solar News Channel’s regional news programs spoken in native languages. It first launched Solar News Cebuano on Jan. 28, 2013, anchored by Menchu Macapagal. Other newscasts using major regional languages are also in the pipeline.
The regional-language newscasts reflect the channel’s philosophy of delivering the news to every consumer in a manner that’s relevant to them.