Ted Failon

Mario Teodoro “Ted” Failon Etong (born March 29, 1962) is an award-winning Filipino broadcast journalist on radio and television and politician. On radio, he is heard in the morning delivering the news for DZMM Radyo Patrol Balita alongside former Philippine Vice President Noli de Castro and making his signature sharp and witty commentaries about relevant national issues affecting his countrymen on his own program, Failon Ngayon sa DZMM. On TV, he can be seen co-anchoring his network’s flagship nightly news program TV Patrol and hosting his own investigative program Failon Ngayon every Saturday night. Ted considers radio as his first love and after 34 years of doing radio in both FM and AM stations; he’s become notable for delivering intelligent commentaries and making it relatable and interesting to his listeners who comes from all walks of life, incorporating with the use of entertaining sound effects and music to his daily morning radio program "Failon Ngayon sa DZMM."