Bobby Nalzaro is a Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 broadcast journalist, radio commentator

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 and columnist

Columnist

A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....

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He is one of Cebu's tri-media personality. He handles daily commentary program at DYSS Super Radyo (RGMA Network), news anchor of GMA 7 Cebuano newscast, Balitang Bisdak

Balitang Bisdak

Balitang Bisdak is a regional news program aired over GMA-7 Cebu, GMA-5 Dumaguete and GMA-10 Tacloban in the Philippines with its broadcast center located at Nivel Hills, Apas, Cebu City. The newscast airs from 5:45 pm to 6:30 pm every Tuesday and Thursday and 5:30 pm to 6:15 pm every Monday,...

 and GMA News TV provincial anchor for Balita Pilipinas

Balita Pilipinas

Balita Pilipinas is the weekly regional news broadcast of GMA News TV which airs in the Philippines. It is aired every Saturday at 6:50-7:50 PM .It also aired worldwide GMA Life TV.-Format:...

. He also writes columns with Sun.Star Cebu

Sun.Star Cebu

The Sun.Star Cebu is a community newspaper in Cebu City, the Philippines. It is the flagship newspaper of the Sun.Star network of newspapers and is the leading newspaper in both Metro Cebu and the province of Cebu....

 and Superbalita.

Early life

Bobby Nalzaro was born in Dipolog City

Dipolog City

The City of Dipolog is a 1st class city and the capital of the province of Zamboanga del Norte on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao...

, Zamboanga del Norte

Zamboanga del Norte

Zamboanga del Norte or simply known as ZANORTE is a province of the Philippines located in the Zamboanga Peninsula region in Mindanao. Its capital is Dipolog City and the province borders Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay to the south and Misamis Occidental to the east...

, on August 11, 1963. He speaks fluent Chabacano, Cebuano

Cebuano language

Cebuano, referred to by most of its speakers as Bisaya , is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people mostly in the Central Visayas. It is the most widely spoken of the languages within the so-named Bisayan subgroup and is closely related to other Filipino...

, Tagalog

Tagalog language

Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a third of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by most of the rest. It is the first language of the Philippine region IV and of Metro Manila...

, and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

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He started in radio at the age of 16. In 1980, he was an anchor/reporter of Radio DXRZ (UMBN/RMN) in Zamboanga City while taking up Bachelor

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 in Mass Communication

Mass communication

Mass communication is the term used to describe the academic study of the various means by which individuals and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time...

 at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University

Ateneo de Zamboanga University

The Ateneo de Zamboanga University is a Catholic and Jesuit university in Western Mindanao. It is also known by the acronym AdZU. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1912, it is the second oldest Jesuit school in the Philippines. It initially catered to primary and secondary education for boys. It...

. He was also a reporter of Zamboanga Express, a local newspaper. He later joined The Morning Times.

Career

In 1987, he transferred in Cebu and joined DYMF

DYMF

DYMF is an AM commercial radio station owned and managed by Peoples' Broadcasting Service, Inc., under Bombo Radyo Philippines . The station's studio and transmitter are located at Bombo Radyo Broadcast Center, 87-A Borromeo St., Cebu City 6000, Philippines...

 Bombo Radyo Cebu. He served the station for ten years from an ordinary anchor to acting Station Manager. He resigned in 1997 and joined GMA 7/RGMA Cebu.

He is program director and chief operations officer of dySS Cebu (GMA Radio Network). He had served as Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) Cebu chapter chairman and KBP regional coordinator.

Awards

• Outstanding 13th Annual KBP Golden Dove Awards
• Garbo Sa Sugbo Awardee, October 12, 2004