Ross Del Rosario at Ang Pinaka Show of GMA News TV

Wazzup Pilipinas!

Our Editor-in-Chief Ross Del Rosario was among the panelists who ranked and gave opinions or syories about the different destination festivals in the Philippines at the Ang Pinaka TV show of GMA News TV, airing on channel 11, one of the country's local channels.

"Not all festivals or ‘fiestas’ in the Philippines are religion-based. Some modern festivals highlight the culture, history, tourism, or a particular product or industry of a particular destination. This Sunday, GMA News TV’s longrunning and awardwinning infotainment program ‘Ang Pinaka’ lists down some of the most colorful ‘man-made’ celebrations in the top ten ‘Ang Pinaka: Bonggang Destination Festivals.’

Joining host Rovilson Fernandez are guest panelistas: GMA News Senior Reporter and TV Host Susan Enriquez, WazzupPilipinas.com Editor in Chief Ross del Rosario, and actor/director/blogger Icko Gonzalez. Find out the Top 10 “Ang Pinaka: Bonggang Destination Festivals” this Sunday on ‘Ang Pinaka,’ May 5, 2019 on GMA News TV at 6:30pm."

The on cam interview was done about a month before the actual airing and was only notified of the actual date just a few days before May 5. 

According to Ross, this is not the first time he guested as a resource person for a TV show, but he was still nervous amidst the strong lights and camera and crew focused on him while being interviewed for the show.

The topic was appropriate since Wazzup Pilipinas has been featuring theany festivals of the country but since there are so many because every municipaility, city, province, etc has their very own festival, whether to celebrate a patron saint, a bountiful harvest, product(s) or important part of history or culture, or even a group of people as in the Lagaslas Bangkero Festival in tribute of the boatmen, we coukd probably have a difficult time accounting for the exact number of festivals in the country.

The target is to at least experience the bigger and mote significant festivals aside from visiting all the 81 provinces. But since it is more difficult and costly to visit during festival season, the challenge could be daunting next to impossible unless the local government or tourism offices ollaborates with us.

We would like to thank Ang Pinaka team for considering our Editor-in-Chief to be part of the show. To be able to share memories and knowledge of our experience is quite memorable as it is not everyday you get to be seen on national TV.