published by The Bohol Standard
The cut-throat local broadcast rivalry here posted an upset this week as the lid of highly-secured, covert negotiation was blown open the other day.
Starting Monday (tomorrow) the main anchor of a top rated radio program from a rival radio station will now be heard in another frequency, handling another equally highly-rated public affairs format program from a competing radio station.
The iconic print and broadcast journalist Boy Guingguing of “Cuentas Claras†fame, Station DyTR’s flagship public affairs program, caught by surprise his legions of followers in his former home studio when he accepted the offer to handle as “top banana†of the famous “Inyong Alagad†radio program of the same format over rival Station DyRD.
There is no mention of the whooping amount involved in talent fee nor of the tempting perks and terms offered for the agreement reportedly sealed Friday afternoon.
Like the parable of the missing “prodigal sonâ€, Guingguing is back in DyRD’s fold as anchor of Inyong Alagad after 26 years of wandering to a rival station to start the genesis of Cuentas Claras.
In six years, Guingguing managed to make DyTR Cuentas Claras into a sought-after radio program in a neck-and-neck fight for ratings with DyRD’s Inyong Alagad.
In the fierce competition of the two programs, Inyong Alagad proved the winner in a radio listeners’ survey conducted by the Holy Name Research Center.
DyRD now takes another assuming foot forward with Guingguing handling Inyong Alagad as top anchor. He is paired, with no less, by equally competent broadcasters whose impressive credentials are nothing to sneeze at-- the likes of the venerable Fred Araneta, Chito Visarra and Jerry Pabe.
Considered as one of the most durable anchors hereabouts, Guingguing’s return to his original station was a reprise of his early foray in radio 26 years ago at DYRD where he practically cut his teeth in broadcast journalism.
Colleagues recall Guingguing covering a city bank heist, just using an obsolete VHF hand-held two-way radio; but able to bring the action blow-by-blow to radio listeners, a feat no local reporter had ever done.
This guy is the same old familiar anchor who steered Inyong Alagad into a nominee as the Best Service Program of the Year in the late 80’s.
The re-entry of Guingguing to DyRD had spawned various speculations, including prognosis of self-proclaimed political analyst as to the real score in Guingguing’s somersault to a rival station.
It can be noted that Guingguing owns the Bohol Sunday POST, a weekly newspaper that had established a threatening position as the closest competitor of DyRD’s sister media outfit Bohol CHRONICLE.
Whether the new anchor, in a different surrounding, will leave up to its pompous billing with all the hype given to this new assignment at Inyong Alagad, is the big question the listening public eagerly awaits.
Guingging practically faces the pendulum of “make or break†in taking this crossroad of his media career.
A fan of Guingging (borrowing the same line that this prolific media icon had created) said: “Regardless of which side of the bread is buttered, we expect him to remain as Boy Guingging, the uncompromising, no holds barred print-broadcast journalist the public had known. That, he must do; no more, no less.â€
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