With a renewed thrust of being on “Your Side, All The Time.”
Effective Monday, June 1, viewers of the 24/7 pay TV news channel One News on Cignal TV will wake up to a revamped morning lineup and catch up with the day’s top stories on a new look primetime news show.
Foremost, Morning Matters, which has been on the air since 2025, will finally have a set of permanent hosts and anchors.
Months after its original host Gretchen Ho departed the MediaQuest group for a sabbatical from TV work, the channel has assembled a new trio that will serve One News viewers their daily fix of breakfast news.
Pauline Versoza, who has been a semi-regular host since Ho’s departure, will be joined by Angela Lagunzad-Castro and Cesca Litton-Kalaw in Morning Matters, which moves to 8:30 am.
In between their program, Cathy Yang will deliver the top headlines in business and trade and her conversations with leaders in Money Talks, which is also adjusting its time to 9:00 am.
After that, Morning Matters will then return for another hour starting at 9:30 am to 10:30 am.
As a result, Lagunzad-Castro’s program News and Views, which she anchored with her husband, Angelo Diego Castro III, has ended its run last Friday, May 29.
The show, which was formerly known as Brunch, was on the air from 2024 and aired on the channel every weekday morning from 10:00 to 11:00 am.
Meanwhile, following the shakeup in the morning lineup, Versoza, along with Shawn Yao, have also left the primetime news program The Big Story on Friday night.
This, as the show will be reformatted into a solo anchor format with Ces Oreña-Drilon starting June 1.
It will remain on its usual slot, every 8:00 to 9:00 pm on weekday evenings, but is reportedly having more interviews with newsmakers, following the high audience engagement of Atty. Jimmy Bondoc’s interview with Oreña Drilon, Yao, and Versoza earlier this month, according to Medianewser.
The new One News lineup comes just two weeks after the channel rejigged its primetime block last May 18 with the introduction of new programs One Newsfeed and Political Beat, as well as the addition of One PH’s Sa Totoo Lang.