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As a veteran radio anchorman, Edmund Aspero is regarded by peers in the media industry as the The King because of his unique broadcasting style
BACOLOD, Philippines – Veteran radio broadcaster Edmund Aspero, known as the “The King” of Negros media died at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City at around 4:30 am on Sunday, October 6, his daughter, Aidy Aspero-Voluntate, confirmed to Rappler.
He was 77.
Voluntate said her father succumbed to pneumonia that complicated his end-stage renal failure.
Aspero was confined in the hospital for quite a long time already.
As a veteran radio anchorman, Aspero was regarded by peers in the media industry as the “The King” because of his unique styles in broadcasting, which were hard to emulate.
He is popularly known with the “Borloloy Gang” program on radio alongside with his long-time buddies and co-anchormen Aladin Salas and Rolly Baliguat.
The “Borloloy Gang” program is a household name in Bacolod and Negros Occidental because of the hosts’ no-holds-barred commentaries.
Aspero started and honed his skills in broadcasting at Radio Mindanao Network – Radyo Agong-Bacolod as cab reporter to anchorman.
He became one the most respected anchormen of the Cojuangcos-owned AM station, dyRL Radyo Pilipino Bacolod where they launched the “Borloloy Gang” program.
From dyRL, he transferred GMA’s Super Radyo Bacolod, but was closed later.
Before he got ill, Aspero used to be a reporter for the Diocese of Bacolod-run radio station, dyAF Radyo Veritas, and one of the oldest, yet wackiest members of the Capitol Brats, a group of beat reporters at the provincial capitol.
Aspero was among the past presidents of the Negros Press Club (NPC), the oldest press club in the country.
Three of his fellow past presidents – Dolly Yasa (Daily Guardian), Renato “Boy” Duran (Manila Broadcasting Company – dyEZ Aksyon Radyo Bacolod) and Dolores Epacta-Miranda (Negros Now Daily and Negros Weekly) – expressed sadness at his death.
Yasa said, “Edmund, ‘The King,’ is most remembered for his sense of humor among peers and one of those, who made his mark during the Martial Law days, standing pat with the militant media despite threats from the past Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s administration.”
“It was of great sorrow that we lost one of stalwarts of the Negros Press Club. ‘The King’ is irreplaceable,” Duran related.
For Epacta-Miranda, “He (Aspero) was one of the pillars of Negros Press Club and of the Negros media in general. We mourn his death, indeed.”
NPC sets a tribute for “The King” before his internment, tentatively scheduled on Saturday, October 12.
Aspero is survived by his wife, Ligaya, and two children. – Rappler.com
