Ex-ABS-CBN exec heads state broadcast agency

Veteran broadcast journalist Fernando “Dindo Amparo” Sanga (right) takes oath as the new director general of the Presidential Broadcast Service – Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS) on Wednesday (Sept. 18, 2024). Communications Secretary Cesar Chavez administered the oath of office to Sanga during the turnover of leadership with outgoing PBS-BBS chief Rizal Giovanni Aportadera. (Photo courtesy of the Presidential News Desk)

MANILA, Philippines — Veteran broadcast journalist Fernando “Dindo” Amparo Sanga has been appointed director general of the Presidential Broadcast Service-Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS), which runs state-owned radio stations nationwide.

The 58-year-old Sanga, more known as Dindo Amparo, took his oath of office on Wednesday before Presidential Communications Secretary Cesar Chavez. He began his career in 1987 at the Philippine Information Agency as a development information officer.

Sanga then worked as an announcer and reporter of PBS-BBS from 1989 to 1994 before joining dzMM and ABS-CBN from 1994 to 2005 as a reporter, and eventually, as ABS-CBN’s Middle East bureau chief in Dubai from 2005 to 2010. He later served as ABS-CBN’s head for news gathering and assistant vice president for news and current affairs from 2014 to 2020.