Mel Tiangco

Carmela "Mel" Corro Tiangco (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈtʃaŋkɔ]) is a Filipino television newscaster and television host. She is one of the news pillars of GMA News and Public Affairs and a multi-awarded news anchor. After graduating from De La Salle University, she became one of the leading presenters in Philippine television journal programs. Tiangco's media career began in the last years of Marcos presidency. She began in broadcasting when she was hired by government-owned MBS-4 as a newscaster after being discovered in an audition in RPN-9 by its network's news director Edwin Fargas. After the People Power Revolution in 1986, the former did not renew the workers' contracts. Meanwhile, she began in radio through DZXL of Radio Mindanao Network. She joined ABS-CBN Corporation for a decade since 1986 — at that time, the network was newly-resurrected and the station shared the same building with Channel 4 which later moved to its present site. Working first at DZMM, with Jay Sonza, they later hosted the program Mel and Jay, which later had its television counterpart, a Sunday talk show, since 1989. Meanwhile, she co-anchored the network's primetime newscast Balita Ngayon; and gained fame being one of the original anchors of the replacement program TV Patrol, which was premiered in 1987. As Tiangco and Sonza transferred to GMA Network in 1996, they continued being the duo through the television program, yet renamed as Partners: Mel and Jay, and a program in DZBB-AM. In 2004,…