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Latest revision as of 08:42, 18 August 2024
Title card during the ABS-CBN/Studio 23/S+A years
Status: Partially found
Family Rosary Crusade is a religious organization founded by Fr. Patrick Peyton in 1947. The organization purpose is to pray the rosary with the entire family.
A television program of the same name was aired from March 7, 1987 until November 18, 2018 aired on 7 different channels including ABS-CBN (1987-2003), PTV 4 (NBN 4 from 2001-2011) (1987-2014), RPN 9 (New Vision 9 from 1989-1994) (1989-2007), ABC 5 (1992-2007), IBC 13, RJTV 29, Studio 23 (2003-2014) and ABS-CBN S+A (2014-2018). It is a longest Filipino religious program for 31 years.
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With democracy restored in the Philippines and there was an intense feel of faith in the air, Father Peyton saw the possibilities of developing a different type of program for the Philippines. After the poor reception to the timely wholesome family-centered drama program "Ang Pamilya Ko" on ABS-CBN, Father Peyton started launching his one-hour once a week magazine talk show program.
"Family Rosary Crusade," was premiered on March 7, 1987, for the relaunch of ABS-CBN as The Star Network (now Kapamilya Network).
Every Saturday morning, Father Peyton would be on ABS-CBN to start the program with the praying of the Rosary. He would be later joined by a long-time advertising practitioner, Rosita "Babs" Hontiveros or "Tita Babs" (Auntie Babs) as the co-host. For almost five years, the program continued to air until the death of Father Peyton in June 1992.
Despite the death of Father Peyton in 1992, the weekly television program "Family Rosary Crusade," continues to air on ABS-CBN with Babs Hontiveros as main host with Father James Reuter, SJ. Behind the scenes, a group of media volunteers continue to lend a hand in continuing with the mission of Father Peyton, utilizing mass media as a handy tool for evangelization and the promotion of the praying of the Family Rosary.
Family Rosary Crusade was being run by Gennie Q. Jota who served as Executive Director and ably recruited volunteers to write, contribute almost anything to keep the program running. Veteran sound engineer, Beda Orquejo who was met by Father Peyton at the old government television network under Marcos' time left his regular work with the network to serve as all-around technical person. Orquejo would serve as director, cameraman and editor of the weekly episodes of Family Rosary Crusade.
Several television networks also sought programs of Family Rosary Crusade, aired for with free airtime and without advertisements. From 1992 up to 2002, Family Rosary Crusade had almost 40 hours of free airtime to fill for television networks like People's Television (PTV), Radio Philippines Network (RPN), ABS-CBN Corporation (ABS-CBN) and Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC). Family Rosary Crusade's locally produced programs and a library of films produced by Family Theater in the United States aired throughout this period.
On February 21, 1992, the Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC) resumed its broadcast operations after it was shut down by martial law in 1972. The television network became a official carrier for Family Rosary Crusade. The network utilized as part of its station identification at the top of every hour a plug wherein the Blessed Virgin Mary speaking before Filipinos appealing to pray the Rosary and with the closing standard slogan, "The family that prays together stays together." The plug ran on ABC from the reopening on February 21, 1992 to the relaunching as "Iba Tayo!" on April 12, 2004, after businessman Tonyboy Cojuangco purchased the network.
With more airtime, means more original programs to produce, and this called in for more volunteers.
Mrs. Jota and Beda Orquejo recruited several personalities to appear on the Family Rosary Crusade. Dominican priest Father Larry Faraon, OP joined Family Rosary Crusade as a younger voice for inspiration for the younger audience. Younger hosts would join Father Larry, Loudette Zaragosa Banson who appeared on Father Reuter's drama programs will be joined by radio drama personality Bernard Factor-Cañaberal as the two main hosts of the magazine talk show Family Rosary Crusade. Inspirational motivator Claudine Zialcita would later join the three other hosts to become the news reader for a segment called, "Religious Update."
Father James Reuter, SJ will have his daily program on ABC called, "Three Minutes a Day" which aired at 3:00 pm for three minutes. Father Reuter would reflect on the day's Gospel reading.
ABS-CBN's flagship Channel 2 would continue to air it until 2003 when Studio 23 continues to air the program, airing at 7:00 am every Sunday. The program continues with its magazine type programming with talks and discussions related to themes of the Catholic Church with sole host Bernard Cañaberal and supported by Claudine Zialcita, Ces Datu and guest priest Gospel homilist.
In March 2010, Family Rosary Crusade got a new National Director, a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross from the South Asia province, Reverend Father Roque D'Acosta, CSC, formerly a Spiritual Director for the FRC for two years. The Family Rosary Crusade also left its 50-year office in Pope Pius XII Catholic Center in the Archdiocese of Manila. It moved to a formation house/television studio in Loyola Heights, Quezon City within the recently created Diocese of Cubao. The new office serves as its studios and production facilities and formation house for future members of the mission of the Congregation of Holy Cross in the Philippines.
On January 19, 2014, after Studio 23 reformatted as S+A, Family Rosary Crusade continues to air every Saturday at 5:00 AM.
On November 17, 2018, Family Rosary Crusade aired its last episode on National TV. Due to S+A's daily sports programs, Family Rosary Crusade was no longer to air its episodes and lost its go signal to air.
Segments
- Church Alive - Talk segment
- Dateline FRC (formerly Religious Update) - News segment
- Kwentong Buhay (Life Stories) - True to life segment
- Once Upon a Saint - Story segment for Children
- Sunday Gospel Reflections - Gospel reading segment
- Three Minutes a Day - Gospel reading segment (used only on ABC 5)
Hosts
- Rev. Fr. James Reuter, SJ (main host, 1987-1990s; "Three Minutes a Day" host, 1992-2008)
- Rev. Fr. Larry Faraon, OP (1990s)
- Bernard Factor Cañaberal (main host, 1990s-2010; "Once Upon a Saint" host, 1994-2021)
- Loudette Zaragoza-Banson (main host and "Kwentong Buhay" host, 1990s-2006)
- Claudine Zialcita ("Dateline FRC" host, 1990s-2018)
- Chi Datu-Bocobo ("Kwentong Buhay" host, 2006-2018)
- Rev. Fr. Erick Santos (main host; 2010-2016)
- Rev. Fr. Joel Francis Victorino (main host; 2016-2018)
- Rev. Fr. Allan Samonte (relief host; 2010-2018)
Availability
The original episodes of the show were aired originally every Saturdays on ABS-CBN 2 from March 7, 1987 to August 30, 2003, then it was moved to Studio 23 which remained on Saturday mornings from September 6, 2003 to Summer of 2006, when the show was moved to Sundays until January 12, 2014 and on ABS-CBN S+A back to Saturday mornings from February 15, 2014 to November 18, 2018. The organization also offered 30 minute programs on ABC 5, RJTV 29 and government owned TV networks PTV 4, IBC 13 and RPN 9 from 1987 to 2014. It is also aired on the TV Maria cable channel from 2008 onwards, with segments from the show was separated following the show's cancellation starting in December 2018. In 2009, FRC's official Youtube channel uploaded the segments from the Studio 23 era, with the another official account uploaded full episodes of Studio 23 shows from 2013 and ABS-CBN S+A shows of 2014 in the same years respectively. Then in 2017, another official Youtube account of FRC Philippines uploaded clips of ABS-CBN S+A era episodes of 2017 and 2018 was uploaded. As of now, the ABS-CBN era episodes from 1987 to 2003, along with Studio 23 era episodes from 2003 to 2008 and 2010 to 2012 along with ABS-CBN S+A era episodes from 2015 to 2018 had not yet to resurface.