Balita Pilipinas Primetime
Title card
Genre	News broadcasting
Presented by	Arnold Clavio CJ Torida Bobby Nalzaro Tek Ocampo
Country of origin	Philippines
Original language	Tagalog
Production
Production locations	Studio 2, GMA Network Center, Quezon City, Philippines
Running time	42 minutes
Production company	GMA News and Public Affairs
Original release
Network	GMA News TV
Release	March 5, 2011 (2011-03-05) – February 15, 2014 (2014-02-15)

Balita Pilipinas Primetime (transl. News Philippines Primetime) is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by GMA News TV. Anchored by Arnold Clavio, it premiered on March 5, 2011. The show concluded on February 15, 2014.

Format

The newscast was anchored by Arnold Clavio from the GMA Network Studios in Quezon City with its regional anchors from GMA stations in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. It features different news from the different regions in the Philippines. The news from Luzon are reported by CJ Torida of GMA Dagupan while from Visayas are by Bobby Nalzaro of GMA Cebu and from Mindanao by Tek Ocampo of GMA Davao. By July 11, 2011, its spin-off was premiered every Weekdays at 4:00pm as Balita Pilipinas Ngayon, anchored by Mark Salazar and Maki Pulido.^[1] This newscast became known as Balita Pilipinas Primetime. With its final broadcast on February 15, 2014, the weekday afternoon edition outlived the original Saturday night edition, making it the first series whose spin-off outlives the original.

Anchors

• Arnold Clavio
• Jorge Guerrero (GMA Ilocos)
• CJ Torida (GMA Dagupan)
• Elmer Caseles (GMA Bicol)
• Gerthrode Charlotte Tan (GMA Iloilo)
• Adrian Bobe / Gretchen Varela (GMA Bacolod)
• Bobby Nalzaro (GMA Cebu)
• Joe Legaspina (GMA Northern Mindanao)
• Tek Ocampo (GMA Davao)
• Jennifer Solis (GMA General Santos)

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