CoverageTV Channels Covered
- TV-7 Laoag
- TV-11/TV-34 Vigan
News Events Covered
- Laoag and Vigan
- various cities and towns in the following provinces
- Ilocos Provinces
- Cagayan Province
- Cordillera Provinces (Abra, Apayao, Kalinga)
Credits to TV Patrol
Ilocos @ Wikipedia
- events around the administration of the relatives of the late Philippine President Marcos who occupied various public offices
- events around the political families besides the Marcoses (Ablan, Farinas, Domingo families)
- the annual Pamulinawen Festival and other fiestas in and out of Laoag City
- peace and order situations in and out of Ilocos Provinces
- the effects of the 2009 typhoons and the 2010 El Nino, and the actions of ABS-CBN and the local authorities against the calamities
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Formal Name: TV Patrol Ilocos
Other Name: TV Patrol Laoag
Tagline: Ilocos Patrol ti Pilipino; Patrol ti Ilocandia
1950: Around this year, Monserrat Broadcasting System (MBS) is born with a radio station each in Manila and Laoag. The Lopez family buys MBS, turning MBS Laoag to ABS-CBN Laoag, the first in the Ilocos Provinces, broadcasting until 1972.
1990: ABS-CBN Laoag reopens as a relay TV station (TV-7). It launches its new radio station: DWEL (MOR Laoag) in 1995, and relaunches TV-7 as originating TV station in 1997. Meeting the need of Ilocanos for news in and out of Laoag and in the Ilocano language, TV-7 premiers its own TV Patrol in 1997.
27 October 2008: TV Patrol Laoag becomes TV Patrol Ilocos, now featuring headlines in the Ilocos Provinces. Reporter Monette Soriano joins Victor Andal anchoring the newscast.
March 2010: TV Patrol Ilocos introduces Ilocos Sur reporter Bryan Realgo as new anchor with additional reporters.
Credits: Kapitan: The Story of Geny Lopez/ABS-CBN Publishing; Wikipedia - TV Patrol Ilocos, ABS-CBN Laoag, MOR Laoag
About the IlocosThe Ilocos Provinces
- northwesternmost provinces in the Philippines and in the island of Luzon
- known as "the Region of the Industrious People"
- famous for its array of modern-day windmills (for electricity use in the region)
- popular for its Spanish-era houses and churches in its cities and towns, the most iconic being the houses in Vigan and the church in Paoay town in Ilocos Norte
- capital of Ilocos Norte; first-class city in the Ilocos Provinces
- very known for Laoag Empanada, chichacorn, Ilocos bagoong, basi (Ilocos wine) and bagnet
- popular for the St. William's Cathedral Sinking Bell Tower--a local combination of France's Eiffel Tower and Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa
- de facto capital of the Ylocos Provinces (assigned during the Spanish colonial era)
- current capital of Ilocos Sur
- iconic food: Vigan Empanada, pinakbet
- has preserved Spanish colonial era houses that draws tourists everyday making them tagged a World Heritage Site by UNESCO