Information consumption is changing rapidly and social media is the latest platform that makes information more accessible.
Presenters Ted Failon, Bernadette Sembrano and Noli de Castro are making a comeback on “TV Patrol,” which now streams live on Facebook and Youtube.
Thursday evening, Television patrol went down in history by moving from traditional broadcasting to a purely digital platform, making a fashionable and trendy comeback. The 33-year-old newscast, which was the last program to air on ABS-CBN and DZMM before the broadcast giant signed that night, after the network’s broadcast franchise expired the day before, resumed delivering the biggest news not on TV but on the streaming site. iWant, the Facebook social media portal and the YouTube video sharing site. It was also broadcast on ANC and internationally via The Filipino Channel. Twelve hours after its full live broadcast on Facebook, Television patrol has amassed nearly nine million views, 88,000 comments and 225,000 reactions. Its concurrent viewers, or the number of Facebook users watching at the same time, peaked at around 250,000. On Youtube, it peaked at 75,000 with a total of 800,000 views at the time of writing. The entire two-hour news broadcast is broadcast with several commercial breaks. The news’s return two days after its shutdown was greeted with countless memes and reactions on Twitter, landing at the top of the hot topic list on the microblogging site.
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