VETERAN broadcast journalist Fernando Sanga, more popularly known as Dindo Amparo, was appointed director general of the Presidential Broadcast Service – Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS) which is under the Presidential Communications Office (PCO).
Amparo took his oath before Communications Secretary Cesar Chavez on Wednesday night, with outgoing PBS-BBS chief Rizal Giovanni Aportadera as witness.
The PCO released yesterday the photos of the oath-taking.
PBS-BBS operates government radio stations nationwide such as the DZRB Radyo Pilipinas Manila which is its flagship station.
Sanga started his career in broadcasting as reporter of DZRB in Lucena in 1987, before becoming development information officer at the Philippine Information Agency from 1987 to 1989, and announcer-reporter at the PBS-BBS from 1989 to 1994.
He then moved to ABS-CBN where he became a reporter from 1994 to 2005 before heading the ABS-CBN news bureau in Dubai from 2005 to 2010.
He also later served as head of news department and assistant vice president of ABS-CBN.
