Sentro

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Sentro
Information At Your Hands (Impormasyon sa iyong mga kamay)
Genre	News program Live action
Created by	ABC Development Corporation
Directed by	Rosario Andres
Presented by	Martin Andanar
Narrated by	Mike Carreon
Country of origin	Philippines
Original languages	Filipino (April 12, 2004-June 22, 2007) English (June 25, 2007-August 8, 2008)
Production
Executive producers	Sonny Fernandez Jackie Sierda
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	ABC News and Public Affairs
Release
Original network	ABC 5
Picture format	480i SDTV
Audio format	Mono
Original release	April 12, 2004 (2004-04-12) – August 8, 2008 (2008-08-08)
Chronology
Preceded by	Balitang Balita (as early evening newscast) Big News (as late night newscast)
Followed by	TEN: The Evening News

Sentro (Filipino word for "center") is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by ABC 5. Originally anchored by John Susi and Ali Sotto it premiered on April 12, 2004 on the network's evening line up replacing Balitang Balita. The show concluded on August 8, 2008. Martin Andanar served as the final anchors. It was replaced by TEN: The Evening News in its timeslot.

History[]

The newscast premiered on April 12, 2004, replacing Balitang Balita. It was first anchored by John Susi who was held over from its predecessor Balitang Balita and former actress Ali Sotto. Sotto that time was with contract with GMA Network under its radio arm DZBB. On October 2, 2006, the newscast exchanged timeslots with Big News, the evening news program of the network. Susi and Sotto were replaced by Martin Andanar, who became the final anchor of the newscast.

On June 25, 2007, Sentro was reformatted as an all-English newscast answering to Q's News on Q, despite the retention of the name and some of the opening text and ending reminders still in Filipino. This used to be the language of Big News before its main language was changed to Filipino in 2004.

On August 8, 2008, Sentro, together with Big News, aired its final broadcast; it is also the last program to be aired on ABC-5 before it signed off for the last time at around 10:00pm and rebranded the next day as TV5.

Anchors[]

• John Susi (2004–2006)
• Ali Sotto (2004–2006)
• Martin Andanar (2006–2008)

Substitute anchors[]

• Amelyn Veloso
• Jove Francisco

Gallery[]

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  Sentro logo used from June 25, 2007 – March 7, 2008

See also[]

• List of Philippine television shows
• List of programs aired by 5 (TV channel)
• ABC News