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| (L-R): Global Resource Creative Exchange President and talent manager Girlie Rodis, ABS-CBN COO of Broadcast Cory V. Vidanes, ABS-CBN President and CEO Carlo L. Katigbak, Korina Sanchez-Roxas, ABS-CBN Chairman Mark L. Lopez, ABS-CBN Finance Group OIC Vincent Paul O. Piedad (Image Source: INQUIRER.net/Instagram/Korina Sanchez-Roxas) |
Award-winning journalist Korina Sanchez-Roxas is back as a Kapamilya as she inks a co-production deal with ABS-CBN for the news magazine and lifestyle show “Rated Korina” on July 5, 2023. “I always knew na I was going to be back. I was never not a Kapamilya anyway. You can take the girl away from the birthplace, but you can't take the birthplace away from the girl. In this case, you can't take away the ABS-CBN in Korina because this is where I grew... I've always been so grateful, I've always maintained my position about certain issues about ABS-CBN, and I've always loved the people here,” she said during the contract signing.
Korina also shared the reason why her show “Rated Korina” stood the test of time. “The thing about Rated Korina, its longevity, is based on the fact that hindi kailanman tayo'y mawawalan ng kwentong totoo mula sa mga tunay na tao and I've always maintained, which was my very first campaign promoting the show in ABS-CBN, that these are the big stories and small lives,” she explained. "It is through a show like 'Rated Korina' that magnifies those lives that are actually bigger than life. Hindi kami mawawalan ng ganoon. We have so many islands in this country, as long as we can get there and with the help of social media, we get to find out where the stories are. We can really tell what a Filipino is and who we are in those stories, and not necessarily the big headlines. Ang dami pang balita talaga sa maliliit na mga buhay na mas malaki pa sa nakikita natin araw-araw," she added.
Sanchez is glad to return to ABS-CBN while treasuring her other families in the industry. "I'm just so happy to be back with my original family. Not to say that I'm not a part of the other families I work with. In our current landscape as we all know, the lines are very, very blurred, if not, invisible right now. I think it's a good thing. "The landscape of broadcast right now has so changed... and I choose to take it well, and I only choose to see the good that comes out of being part of many families, pero siyempre naman, love ko ang ABS-CBN dahil dito talaga ako halos ipinanganak," she said. Present at the contract signing to welcome Korina were ABS-CBN chairman Mark L. Lopez, ABS-CBN president and CEO Carlo L. Katigbak, COO of broadcast Cory V. Vidanes, OIC of finance group Vincent Paul O. Piedad, and Global Resource Creative Exchange president and talent manager Girlie Rodis.
Korina served as Chief Correspondent for the Integrated News and Current Affairs Division of ABS-CBN for over two decades. She has been the face of some Kapamilya programs such as “Hoy Gising", “Bandila", “Balitang K", “Rated K" and “TV Patrol.” As a weekly news magazine and lifestyle show, “Rated Korina” features inspiring stories of Filipinos from all walks of life. It airs every Saturday at 6:15 pm on Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live, and A2Z and at 9:45 pm on TV5. The show is also available for streaming on iWantTFC and TFC.
