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(Repost) To welcome 2011 with a bang, UNTV CEO Daniel Razon launched the station’s News and Rescue Command Center. Quite different from the usual TV reporting, UNTV now incorporates rescue operations as part and parcel of its operations.
It is to be remembered that the idea of including rescue was first broached during the public service channel's sixth anniversary last July.
UNTV also deployed news and rescue mobile units for its massive emergency response operations during the peak of the New Year revelry.
The UNTV News and Rescue Command Center, together with the rescue mobile units, completes Razon’s advocacy that contemplates the combination of bolder news with rescue mission. This initiative is dubbed as Tulong Muna Bago Balita (Rescue First, Before News).
The above photo is a screen shot of an actual rescue operation of UNTV News-and-Rescue team on a motorcycle accident around 2am in Sucat, Parañaque, which involves a couple who was later rushed to a nearby hospital. On the Smaller screen is Mr. Daniel Razon, UNTV’s Chief Executive Officer who was the main host of their year-end presentation titled Panibagong Taon ng Pagkakawanggawa, Panibagong Taon ng Pagbabalita (Another Year of Public Service, Another Year of Reporting).
Unlike its counterparts, UNTV aired its year-end presentation hours beyond the New Year countdown and was dominated by actual rescue operations under their advocacy dubbed Tulong Muna Bago Balita (Rescue First Before News).
On the eve of December 31, UNTV will not only report Filipinos’ New Year revelry, mobile rescue units to respond to emergency needs will also be deployed.
To be aired live on television and on its website, UNTV’s year-end presentation titled Panibagong Taon ng Pagkakawanggawa, Panibagong Taon ng Pagbabalita, highlights public service commitment.
Photo Courtesy of UNTV Marketing
Earlier, UNTV reported the graduation of the third batch of news teams who enrolled in the basic course on Emergency Response Training (ERT). The latest batch, who will augment UNTV’s Tulong Muna Bago Balita advocacy, will be deployed to rove around Metro Manila this New Year’s Eve.
Meanwhile, UNTV will open the major branches of Clinic ni Kuya nationwide to accept patients for free emergency and first-aid treatments.
Introduced by UNTV Chief Executive Officer Daniel Razon, the news-plus-rescue concept dubbed Tulong Muna Bago Balita (Rescue First, Before News), was unveiled July this year during the station’s 6th year anniversary celebration.
Razon, who is also popularly known as Kuya Daniel, said, “Our fellowmen are more important than anything else, [next only to] getting and delivering news.”
According to Razon, the news and rescue advocacy redefines news gathering principles and sets rescue as UNTV News Teams’ number 1 priority. Kuya Daniel said the cause was inspired by the teachings of the International Evangelist Bro. Eli Soriano of Ang Dating Daan (The Old Path).
MOA signing between UNTV and Search and Rescue Unit Foundation Inc. (SARUF) during the program 'Good Morning Kuya' last November 26, 2010.
Razon inspires UNTV news members to undergo emergency-response training courtesy of Search and Rescue Unit Foundation Inc. (SARUF). With the help of SARUF’s training, reporters, cameramen and even drivers are being trained to conduct first-aid and rescue operations. From time to time they undergo refresher and advance training courses like tactical medication, hostage rescue, water and fire rescue.
UNTV vehicles were also equipped not just for news gathering but for rescue purposes as well. Arsenals like trauma kit, rescue gear, stretcher and radio communication device are being used as tools for their rescue operations.
Moreover, UNTV allayed fears that the Tulong Muna Bago Balita advocacy will result in second-rate news reporting. The public service channel assured some quarters that its News Teams are equipped with a mobile transmitter for reporters’ live reports.
UNTV continued that as the Public Service Channel of Philippine Television, it will continuously innovate for the welfare of the society.
December 21, 2010
by Agent Searchlight
As reported by Garry Rada (UNTV Reporter)
Quezon City, Philippines-Happy feelings of a newly wed inside a Mercedez, was momentarily interrupted when a motorcycle riding man bumped the side of their wedding car around 5 o'clock in the afternoon along Mindanao avenue.
The car sustained minimal damage and the couple was safe, but the unidentified biker rolled in the street with agony due to the intolerable pain that resulted from the collision.
Good thing, the UNTV News and Rescue Team was training nearby and the biker received outright first-aid medication courtesy of Tulong Muna, Bago Balita.
Tulong Muna, Bago Balita (Rescue First, Before News) is just one of Kuya Daniel Razon’s (UNTV CEO) visions of an exceptional public service to the people which was launched during UNTV’s6th Anniversary last July 22, 2010. The concept which redefines news gathering principles sets Rescue as UNTV News Teams’ no. 1 priority.
This novel propagation of UNTV’s CEO inspires all UNTV News Teams to save lives first from danger whenever needed than getting the facts of their story, with that, all UNTV news members undergo emergency-response training courtesy of Search and Rescue Unit Foundation Inc. (SARUF).#
Parańaque, Philippines. Just four months after he launched Tulong Muna Bago Balita (Rescue First Before News), broadcast journalist Daniel Razon heightened UNTV’s pioneering news advocacy with 15 new, news and rescue mobile units. These were unveiled last November 28, 2010 during the celebration of Razon's 27th year of service to God and humanity at Esplanade, Mall of Asia in Pasay City, Philippines.
The new mobile units plus the trained news and rescue team of UNTV complete the rationale behind Kuya Daniel’s news advocacy: To save people’s lives first before reporting news.
While news patrols of other media establishments are intended solely for journalistic purposes, UNTV’s new mobile units are equipped with facilities needed for rescue and first aid operations.
“Our fellowmen are more important than anything else, more than getting and delivering news,” Mr. Razon pointed out during UNTV’s 6th anniversary celebration on July 18, 2010.
In the same month, Kuya Daniel sent the UNTV news crews to a month-long emergency response training (ERT) where they were trained to be rescuers, from first aid application to technical and rescue operations. The Search and Rescue Unit Foundation, Inc. (SARUF) — a recognized army rescue unit in the Philippines — led by its president Jerry Carual, trained the team.
According to Carual, this is the first time in the Philippines that a media organization has been directly involved in rescue efforts. UNTV pioneered in going through an ERT, he added.
