Rico Hizon hopes to inspire viewers through people's stories with new ANC program

Photo from Rico Hizon's Instagram account. 

MANILA — Veteran anchor Rico Hizon hopes to inspire viewers through people's stories with his new ABS-CBN News Channel program.

Hizon with be hosting the weekly talk show "Beyond The Exchange with Rico Hizon" which covers "topics that are not usually talked about in television news."

"We have topics like the business of artificial intelligence, the business of concert production, we have one-on-one's with famous personalities who are also entrepeneurs in like Jose Mari Chan, we will also be having Ogie Alcasid," Hizon told ABS-CBN News in an interview. 

"We have diverse topics that will be discussed on the program from famous personalities, entrepreneurs, businessmen, captains of (the) industry who will talk about the business here in the country and what make it tick," he added. 

Hizon is glad to be back on television and be with the ABS-CBN News family.

"Wow, my wildest dreams, I never thought that I will be back on broadcast news and it's great to be part of the ABS-CBN family. It's a great experience to work with ... to be standing side by side with premiere anchors and broadcast journalists in the industry," the anchor said.

"ABS-CBN is one of the vanguards, one of the pillars in news and currents and I'm really, really very proud and honored to part of ABS-CBN and my weekly program 'Beyond The Exchange with Rico Hizon'," he added.

He also enjoyed sharing the news in the "Star Patrol" segment of "TV Patrol."

"Pinapanood ko lang ang 'TV Patrol' which is the number 1 primetime newscast in the country and I never even thought of myself reading the news on that very iconic set of 'TV Patrol'," Hizon said.

"It's just so surreal. It was just like a dream come true. Who would have ever thought that having work with international networks like CNBC Business News, BBC World News, and then CNN (Philippines), that I would be here at ABS-CBN (News) and reading reports on 'TV Patrol.' It's like a dream come true," he added.

"I've been watching 'TV Patrol' for many, many decades with Kabayan (Noli de Castro) with Karen (Davila), with Bernadette Sembrano, and Henry Omaga-Diaz, now Alvin Elchico. To be around them, it's a great feeling. It's hard to describe with words what just transpired being there on set of 'TV Patrol' but it's a great feeling and I'm really inspired that I am continuing my broadcast journalism career with ABS-CBN and the ABS-CBN News Channel."

With his show, Hizon hopes that people would be inspired on how their subjects grew their businesses.

"I think they're an inspiration to many of our kababayans because they are micro, small, and medium enterprises ... they're very inspirational," the anchor said.

"They started from the bottom and made their way towards a successful entrepeneurship business. So, it's very important that a lot of our kababayans, Filipinos who are watching us here and overseas learn about their success stories, their management styles on how they could be successful entrepeneurs," he added.

"Beyond The Exchange with Rico Hizon" airs new episodes on Tuesdays, 6 p.m. on ANC.