Big News

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Big News

Format	News
Created by	Associated Broadcasting Company
Developed by	ABC News
Starring	Cheri Mercado and various contributors
Country of origin	Philippines
No. of episodes	n/a (airs daily)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Sonny Fernandez Jackie Sierda
Running time	15 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Associated Broadcasting Company
Picture format	480i SDTV
Original run	1962?-1972 1992 – present

Philippine Network Evening News edit
ABC	Big News
ABS-CBN	TV Patrol World
GMA	24 Oras
IBC	Express Balita
NBN	Teledyaryo
Net 25	I-Balita
RPN	NewsWatch: First Edition

Big News is the primetime news broadcast of Associated Broadcasting Company in the Philippines. It is currently anchored by Cheri Mercado. The show was originally first aired in 1962, and went off the air in 1972 due to Martial Law, and re-aired again in 1992 as a revival and also as an English language newscast. In 2004, when the network reformatted most of its programs, the show became a Filipino language newscast in order to compete with the other networks newscasts.

On October 3, 2006, the newscast exchanged timeslots with Sentro, the early-evening news program of the network. Since then, Mercado became the sole anchor of the program, and the length of the program has been reduced to 15 minutes from the former 30.

In the newscast, many of the reporters report live from the ABC Newsroom and the anchor asks questions and the reporters answer it at the same time give more details.