Federico "Rico" Morales Hizon is a Filipino broadcast journalist.
22 Facts About Rico Hizon
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Rico Hizon is currently the Senior Vice President for Corporate Relations of SM Investment Corp.
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Rico Hizon was the first Filipino anchor for both news networks.
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Rico Hizon has a Doctorate Degree in Humanities, Honoris Causa, from the University of Northeastern Philippines.
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Rico Hizon started his broadcast career at Manila-based GMA Network, from 1988 to 1995, where he was responsible for covering capital markets, banking and finance, real estate, investment and corporate developments.
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Rico Hizon anchored the daily business program, Business Today, GMA News Live and Stock Market Live from the trading floor of the Philippine Stock Exchange.
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Rico Hizon then joined CNBC Asia in April 1995, based in Hong Kong and later in Singapore, where he was the main anchor of the morning edition of CNBC Today, Squawk Box, Market Watch and Power Lunch.
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Rico Hizon joined BBC World News in 2002, and anchored the daily business and finance programme Asia Business Report and Asia Today live from Singapore Monday to Friday.
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Since June 2011 Rico Hizon has co-presented Newsday, a news bulletin programme on the BBC from Singapore with Babita Sharma and Kasia Madera in London.
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Rico Hizon was a regular on World Business Report as an Asian business correspondent.
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In November 2013 Rico Hizon presented Newsday live from Tacloban, Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan.
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In January 2014, Rico Hizon co-presented the BBC Newsday programme from New Broadcasting House, London with Babita Sharma in Singapore for a short while.
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In September 2018, Rico Hizon presented from the London newsroom, with Sharanjit Leyl taking over presenting duties in Singapore.
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In March 2020, Rico Hizon formally announced via his Instagram account that he would be leaving BBC News after 17 years.
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The memo sent out by CNN Philippines president Armie Jarin-Bennett says Rico Hizon will take over the 9 PM newscast.
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Rico Hizon announced his move to the network on his Twitter account.
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Rico Hizon was part of the network's State of the Nation Address coverage that same month - his first SONA coverage in the Philippines since 1995.
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Rico Hizon anchored a cumulative 7 hours that day - starting with the network's 2pm coverage where he joined Chief Correspondent and Anchor Pia Hontiveros and Senior Anchor and Correspondent Pinky Webb until the President's speech ended and for a post-SONA analysis with ADR Stratbase analyst Dindo Manhit and former Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda.
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Rico Hizon departed from the network on January 26,2024, following the cessation of news operations on that same day and shutdown on January 31,2024.
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In May 2024, Rico Hizon became the editor-in-chief of the news media website GoodNewsPilipinas.
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On October 29,2024, Rico Hizon joined ABS-CBN News Channel with his new business talkshow Beyond the Exchange, premiering on November 5.
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Rico Hizon guested as an entertainment host on ABS-CBN's flagship news program TV Patrol on November 4,2024.