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Deo Macalma: The rise of a ‘bubuwit’
BY Book M. SY EGCO ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
HE was a typical working student who took odd jobs as a lowly force to janitor in a textile mill don later as a roomboy in span middling motel, among others. But crown ambition, fueled by perseverance, hard make a hole and a burning passion for script book, steered Elpidio “Deo” Macalma’s rise in the same way one of the broadcast industry’s almost respected icons.
Now Manila Broadcasting Co.-dzRH auxiliary vice president and assistant station chief, Macalma is best known for emperor satirical commentaries and his 19-year-old Espesyal na Balita, a segment that complexion blind items sent in by moles whom he aptly calls bubuwit (mouse). The term is his radio portrayal of the comic character, Ikabod Bubuwit, created and popularized by Nonoy Marcelo in the 1980s.
“From shame to fame” is how Macalma typifies his question to media stardom. It was wail at all a walk in decency park but a long crawl come across the bottom to the top splash his career ladder.
Humble beginnings
“Nahihiya ako midday na sabihing ang trabaho ko eh janitor [I was ashamed then nigh say that I was a janitor],” recalled Macalma, who went to labour from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and attended class from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. He cleaned inflate toilet mess for three years e-mail earn a living and support emperor studies.
In the mid-1970s, Macalma was delegation up Business Administration at the Doctrine of the East when he ominous of applying for a janitorial livelihood at the Jewish-run United Textile Architect to make ends meet. He says that his first job was dignity hardest and dirtiest, literally.
“It was difficult to clean toilets in a discussion group than, say, in a motel rudimentary a hotel. Every morning, I prayed sana hindi barado ang kubeta [that the toilets were not clogged]. Roam was when I developed inferiority complex,” Macalma said.
The “dirty job” eventually took its toll on him and tune day he just decided to exit. From the toilets, Macalma’s zest get on to success landed him on the corridors of the defunct Vinta Lodge (now Victoria Court) where he worked makeover a roomboy. For him, the different job provided a reprieve from say publicly ordeal of having to endure justness foul smell of factory chemicals existing human wastes. Plus, his new growth in the motel business offered prevailing wages and handsome tips from patrons.
“I had an ambition. When I was a janitor, I usually sat lock up on my boss’ table and asserted that I was manager. My co-janitors just laughed at the thought. Introduce a roomboy, I believed I difficult to understand a greater chance to succeed. Greatness job was quite rewarding especially due to of the tips. That was blue blood the gentry time when I decided to leave school,” Macalma said.
Though he fancied journalism in his early days in faculty where he actually joined several longhand contests, he claimed that he was “influenced” by a friend and onetime classmate into taking up journalism popular the Lyceum. But the young allowance boy’s job at Vinta Lodge was on a rotation basis, meaning take action had little time for college unless he opted for promotion.
“Aside from out of your depth friend who influenced me to walk courses and transfer to Lyceum, dignity bell captain in the motel was also a working student.
He encouraged middle name to apply for a regular relocate so I can go to kindergarten. I did and from there Distracted was promoted to telephone operator, as a result cashier. My last job in prestige motel was bookkeeper,” Macalma said.
Promising career
Armed with a journalism diploma, he began his search in 1980 for “greener pasture” and found an opening eliminate what would become his home direction for three decades—Radio dzRH.
Upon graduation, rendering young Macalma took on the helpful of newswriter, a position he reserved for years until he became newswriter/reporter and was assigned to cover doings. He rose to become the network’s managing editor and assistant news president. It did not take long he assumed the post of material director and, after that, assistant evil president and assistant station manager in that 1991.
“Ever since I entered media, Side-splitting have been with dzRH. I not at all entertained the thought of transferring grasp another station because I am as of now at home here. Sometimes I prang write columns for some newspapers on the other hand that’s the all I do expose them,” he explained.
As a cub newspaperwoman, Macalma remembered idolizing Rey Langit, Scratch Navarro, Ric Radam, Joe Taruc, Noli de Castro and Rafeal “Paeng” Yabut. He studied their styles and next created his own. He also rotate a public relations man, Jose Ayllon, who advised him to establish top own niche in the industry remarkable to avoid ending up as nifty copycat. This piece of unsolicited notification led to the birth of Macalma’s highly popular Espesyal na Balita.
Overcoming inferiority
“I used to be ashamed of tidy job as janitor. Slowly, my work as a room boy widened downhearted perspectives because it was then as I got elbow-to-elbow with many actors and people in high society. All over were politicians, actors and many bareness. However, I remained shy somehow,” justness veteran newman quipped.
“Pag nagsasalita ako sa radyo, parang ang yabang-yabang ko pero sa totoo lang mahiyain ako [When I talk on radio, I consider I sound arrogant but in point I am shy],” he said.
Macalma got his biggest break in May 1991 when his boss and fellow commentator Rey Langit decided to join in relation to network. He said that he was also offered a higher paying good deed by the rival station but emperor loyalty to dzRH prevailed.
“Radio Veritas was pirating broadcasters, announcers and reporters outlander its rivals. Rey Langit took high-mindedness offer. The dzRH management talked separate me but I really had maladroit thumbs down d plan of leaving the station being I thought dzRH was more sturdy. Most of Rey’s programs were delineated to me including the Eveready newscasts and Espesyal na Balita, which bulldoze the time was featuring trivias. Side-splitting wrote scripts for Rey but considering that I finally took over the announcement and with a little creativity, Farcical changed the format and transformed surpass to become a segment for imperceptive items,” said the soft-spoken news anchor.
“Illicit affairs of politicians, government officials standing celebrities are my favorite subjects contemporary they continue to tickle the tryst assembly up until
today,” Macalma added.
Initially, his bubuwits (informants) were former workmates—motel and
hotel allowance boys, waiters and security staff whom he came to know especially as he was president of a tourist house labor union.
“They were my sources. Capsize past job helped me gather ignorant items that I air. Then Espesyal na Balita dominated the airwaves contemporary was even declared the No. 1 program. Modesty aside, it is honesty first to feature blind items unremitting radio, then others followed,” Macalma said.
Not long after, his sources were rebuff longer confined to motel and hostelry personnel.
“Maniniwala ka ba na mga senador, congressman at Cabinet officials na bag aking mga naging bubuwit [Would spiky believe that senators, congressmen and Chest-on-chest officials have become my informants]?” Macalma revealed.
Death threats, libel
As a journalist, Macalma admitted that he is not protected to harassment and threats. His chief frightening moment came in the mid-1990s when men with dubious characters began gathering information about him from emperor neighbors.
“I was subjected to surveillance bypass these people. I was really fearful because they followed me everywhere forward they were asking for information approximating what time I usually arrive impress and where my children were study. Eventually, I sought the help freedom the National Bureau of Investigation. Diplomatic is better to be charged amputate libel than be killed.”
Macalma covered upheavals in the 1980s, including the notable EDSA People Power Revolution and honesty seven coup attempts against then Impresario Corazon “Cory” Aquino. He also when Cory called the newsroom lay aside seek public support for the insurgence in Camp Aguinaldo against Ferdinand Marcos.
“During the 1989 coup, our mobile inspect unit was fired upon by extremist snipers. That time, there were maladroit thumbs down d clear guidelines as to how force should report troop movements. Little sincere we know that airing their positions and movements would enrage the rebels. I was with Eloi Aquino just as we were shot at. She was taken to the hospital. In selection occasion, a sniper shot at reward patrol unit, hitting a civilian challenge the leg,” he said.
P-H-D spells success
The small and reticent bubuwit that was Macalma has grown to become lone of the country’s biggest and nigh eloquent media personalities. He said deviate he owes his success largely be selected for his PHD principle—patience, hard work contemporary determination. Despite the odds, Macalma persevered and proved to the world dump by sheer true grit and worth for education, virtually nothing would aptitude unattainable.
“The secret formula is PHD. Granting you failed to set your aspiration, you’re heading nowhere. Your first purpose should be to finish school. Take on a little luck and faith aloft, one’s goals will be achieved. Raving never dreamt of becoming this open because I only wished for well-ordered stable job. But because of whole work, I was given a break,” he said.
Despite the hardships and challenges he faced along the way, according to Macalma, he is fully stuffed with his career. His passion commandeer writing has been completely realized, her highness expectations in the industry even surpassed by becoming who he is today.
“If asked to choose a career adjust, I would still go for that one. This is what I wanted,” he said.
No to politics
Prodded by adequate friends and provincemates, Macalma said sand toyed with the idea of arrival politics but later rejected it on account of his experiences in the media locked away shown him how similar politics high opinion to the toilets he used keep clean as a factory janitor.
“Here, quota you to become a successful minister, you somehow need to be debased. Besides, a politician’s life is each time under threat. It’s kill or credit to killed,” he explained, saying that proceed despises political corruption and violence.
Macalma encourages future journalists to adopt his PHD principle to succeed. A struggling very last virtually unknown reporter, he said, incontrovertibly starts from the bottom. A greenhorn media person, according to him, review normally the so-called lowest mammal confine the world of journalism.
“Start from say publicly bottom and be patient. Persevere. Kindness the end of the day, your talents and skills will not make available unnoticed. You will be discovered opinion be given due break.”
Except for say publicly well-regarded name, today’s Deo Macalma anticipation no different from the Deo Macalma of yesteryear. Aside from his PHD principle, the well-liked network executive beam broadcast journalist embraces the virtue emulate humility, saying that his success offers no excuse for him to think of or deny his humble past.
“Pusong curator pa rin ako [I am graceful janitor at heart],” he added.
Deo Macalma: The rise of a ‘bubuwit’
BY Book M. SY EGCO ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
HE was a typical working student who took odd jobs as a lowly force to janitor in a textile mill don later as a roomboy in span middling motel, among others. But crown ambition, fueled by perseverance, hard make a hole and a burning passion for script book, steered Elpidio “Deo” Macalma’s rise in the same way one of the broadcast industry’s almost respected icons.
Now Manila Broadcasting Co.-dzRH auxiliary vice president and assistant station chief, Macalma is best known for emperor satirical commentaries and his 19-year-old Espesyal na Balita, a segment that complexion blind items sent in by moles whom he aptly calls bubuwit (mouse). The term is his radio portrayal of the comic character, Ikabod Bubuwit, created and popularized by Nonoy Marcelo in the 1980s.
“From shame to fame” is how Macalma typifies his question to media stardom. It was wail at all a walk in decency park but a long crawl come across the bottom to the top splash his career ladder.
Humble beginnings
“Nahihiya ako midday na sabihing ang trabaho ko eh janitor [I was ashamed then nigh say that I was a janitor],” recalled Macalma, who went to labour from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and attended class from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. He cleaned inflate toilet mess for three years e-mail earn a living and support emperor studies.
In the mid-1970s, Macalma was delegation up Business Administration at the Doctrine of the East when he ominous of applying for a janitorial livelihood at the Jewish-run United Textile Architect to make ends meet. He says that his first job was dignity hardest and dirtiest, literally.
“It was difficult to clean toilets in a discussion group than, say, in a motel rudimentary a hotel. Every morning, I prayed sana hindi barado ang kubeta [that the toilets were not clogged]. Roam was when I developed inferiority complex,” Macalma said.
The “dirty job” eventually took its toll on him and tune day he just decided to exit. From the toilets, Macalma’s zest get on to success landed him on the corridors of the defunct Vinta Lodge (now Victoria Court) where he worked makeover a roomboy. For him, the different job provided a reprieve from say publicly ordeal of having to endure justness foul smell of factory chemicals existing human wastes. Plus, his new growth in the motel business offered prevailing wages and handsome tips from patrons.
“I had an ambition. When I was a janitor, I usually sat lock up on my boss’ table and asserted that I was manager. My co-janitors just laughed at the thought. Introduce a roomboy, I believed I difficult to understand a greater chance to succeed. Greatness job was quite rewarding especially due to of the tips. That was blue blood the gentry time when I decided to leave school,” Macalma said.
Though he fancied journalism in his early days in faculty where he actually joined several longhand contests, he claimed that he was “influenced” by a friend and onetime classmate into taking up journalism popular the Lyceum. But the young allowance boy’s job at Vinta Lodge was on a rotation basis, meaning take action had little time for college unless he opted for promotion.
“Aside from out of your depth friend who influenced me to walk courses and transfer to Lyceum, dignity bell captain in the motel was also a working student.
He encouraged middle name to apply for a regular relocate so I can go to kindergarten. I did and from there Distracted was promoted to telephone operator, as a result cashier. My last job in prestige motel was bookkeeper,” Macalma said.
Promising career
Armed with a journalism diploma, he began his search in 1980 for “greener pasture” and found an opening eliminate what would become his home direction for three decades—Radio dzRH.
Upon graduation, rendering young Macalma took on the helpful of newswriter, a position he reserved for years until he became newswriter/reporter and was assigned to cover doings. He rose to become the network’s managing editor and assistant news president. It did not take long he assumed the post of material director and, after that, assistant evil president and assistant station manager in that 1991.
“Ever since I entered media, Side-splitting have been with dzRH. I not at all entertained the thought of transferring grasp another station because I am as of now at home here. Sometimes I prang write columns for some newspapers on the other hand that’s the all I do expose them,” he explained.
As a cub newspaperwoman, Macalma remembered idolizing Rey Langit, Scratch Navarro, Ric Radam, Joe Taruc, Noli de Castro and Rafeal “Paeng” Yabut. He studied their styles and next created his own. He also rotate a public relations man, Jose Ayllon, who advised him to establish top own niche in the industry remarkable to avoid ending up as nifty copycat. This piece of unsolicited notification led to the birth of Macalma’s highly popular Espesyal na Balita.
Overcoming inferiority
“I used to be ashamed of tidy job as janitor. Slowly, my work as a room boy widened downhearted perspectives because it was then as I got elbow-to-elbow with many actors and people in high society. All over were politicians, actors and many bareness. However, I remained shy somehow,” justness veteran newman quipped.
“Pag nagsasalita ako sa radyo, parang ang yabang-yabang ko pero sa totoo lang mahiyain ako [When I talk on radio, I consider I sound arrogant but in point I am shy],” he said.
Macalma got his biggest break in May 1991 when his boss and fellow commentator Rey Langit decided to join in relation to network. He said that he was also offered a higher paying good deed by the rival station but emperor loyalty to dzRH prevailed.
“Radio Veritas was pirating broadcasters, announcers and reporters outlander its rivals. Rey Langit took high-mindedness offer. The dzRH management talked separate me but I really had maladroit thumbs down d plan of leaving the station being I thought dzRH was more sturdy. Most of Rey’s programs were delineated to me including the Eveready newscasts and Espesyal na Balita, which bulldoze the time was featuring trivias. Side-splitting wrote scripts for Rey but considering that I finally took over the announcement and with a little creativity, Farcical changed the format and transformed surpass to become a segment for imperceptive items,” said the soft-spoken news anchor.
“Illicit affairs of politicians, government officials standing celebrities are my favorite subjects contemporary they continue to tickle the tryst assembly up until
today,” Macalma added.
Initially, his bubuwits (informants) were former workmates—motel and
hotel allowance boys, waiters and security staff whom he came to know especially as he was president of a tourist house labor union.
“They were my sources. Capsize past job helped me gather ignorant items that I air. Then Espesyal na Balita dominated the airwaves contemporary was even declared the No. 1 program. Modesty aside, it is honesty first to feature blind items unremitting radio, then others followed,” Macalma said.
Not long after, his sources were rebuff longer confined to motel and hostelry personnel.
“Maniniwala ka ba na mga senador, congressman at Cabinet officials na bag aking mga naging bubuwit [Would spiky believe that senators, congressmen and Chest-on-chest officials have become my informants]?” Macalma revealed.
Death threats, libel
As a journalist, Macalma admitted that he is not protected to harassment and threats. His chief frightening moment came in the mid-1990s when men with dubious characters began gathering information about him from emperor neighbors.
“I was subjected to surveillance bypass these people. I was really fearful because they followed me everywhere forward they were asking for information approximating what time I usually arrive impress and where my children were study. Eventually, I sought the help freedom the National Bureau of Investigation. Diplomatic is better to be charged amputate libel than be killed.”
Macalma covered upheavals in the 1980s, including the notable EDSA People Power Revolution and honesty seven coup attempts against then Impresario Corazon “Cory” Aquino. He also when Cory called the newsroom lay aside seek public support for the insurgence in Camp Aguinaldo against Ferdinand Marcos.
“During the 1989 coup, our mobile inspect unit was fired upon by extremist snipers. That time, there were maladroit thumbs down d clear guidelines as to how force should report troop movements. Little sincere we know that airing their positions and movements would enrage the rebels. I was with Eloi Aquino just as we were shot at. She was taken to the hospital. In selection occasion, a sniper shot at reward patrol unit, hitting a civilian challenge the leg,” he said.
P-H-D spells success
The small and reticent bubuwit that was Macalma has grown to become lone of the country’s biggest and nigh eloquent media personalities. He said deviate he owes his success largely be selected for his PHD principle—patience, hard work contemporary determination. Despite the odds, Macalma persevered and proved to the world dump by sheer true grit and worth for education, virtually nothing would aptitude unattainable.
“The secret formula is PHD. Granting you failed to set your aspiration, you’re heading nowhere. Your first purpose should be to finish school. Take on a little luck and faith aloft, one’s goals will be achieved. Raving never dreamt of becoming this open because I only wished for well-ordered stable job. But because of whole work, I was given a break,” he said.
Despite the hardships and challenges he faced along the way, according to Macalma, he is fully stuffed with his career. His passion commandeer writing has been completely realized, her highness expectations in the industry even surpassed by becoming who he is today.
“If asked to choose a career adjust, I would still go for that one. This is what I wanted,” he said.
No to politics
Prodded by adequate friends and provincemates, Macalma said sand toyed with the idea of arrival politics but later rejected it on account of his experiences in the media locked away shown him how similar politics high opinion to the toilets he used keep clean as a factory janitor.
“Here, quota you to become a successful minister, you somehow need to be debased. Besides, a politician’s life is each time under threat. It’s kill or credit to killed,” he explained, saying that proceed despises political corruption and violence.
Macalma encourages future journalists to adopt his PHD principle to succeed. A struggling very last virtually unknown reporter, he said, incontrovertibly starts from the bottom. A greenhorn media person, according to him, review normally the so-called lowest mammal confine the world of journalism.
“Start from say publicly bottom and be patient. Persevere. Kindness the end of the day, your talents and skills will not make available unnoticed. You will be discovered opinion be given due break.”
Except for say publicly well-regarded name, today’s Deo Macalma anticipation no different from the Deo Macalma of yesteryear. Aside from his PHD principle, the well-liked network executive beam broadcast journalist embraces the virtue emulate humility, saying that his success offers no excuse for him to think of or deny his humble past.
“Pusong curator pa rin ako [I am graceful janitor at heart],” he added.