(Small However Sturdy/Batibot Radio) / 14 Might 1984 to 2000 / Revived 27 Nov 2010 to 2014 / 14 Might 1984 to 1991: 4:00-5:00 pm, then 10:00-11:00 am, Monday to Friday / RPN 9 / additionally 9:00-10:00 am, then 3:00-4:00 pm, Monday to Friday / PTV 4 / 1991–94 / ABS-CBN / 1994–95, RPN 9 / 1995–97, 10:00-11:00 am, Monday to Friday / GMA 7 / 1998-99 / RPN 9 / 1999–2000 / GMA 7, as Batang Batibot; 2010–14, 8:30-9:00 am, then 7:30-8:00 am, Monday to Friday / with five-minute spots at 8:55 am and a pair of:55 pm, Monday to Friday / ABC 5/TV 5 / Starting past due Eighties, Monday to Friday / DZAM, later known as DZAR / Manufacturer: Philippine Youngsters’s Tv Basis / Govt Manufacturers: Lydia Benitez-Brown, Feny de los Angeles-Bautista / Line Manufacturers: Vivian Recio, Mayee Fabregas, Carina Villanoz, Cielo Reyes, Paula Popple, Liezl Tiamzon, Vicky Jinon, and Margie Templo / Curriculum and Analysis Director: Feny de los Angeles-Bautista / Administrators: Kokoy Jimenez, Noel Añonuevo, Lem Garcellano, Carmelo Sta. Maria, Chuck Escasa, Rico Gutierrez / Ingenious Director: Rene O. Villanueva / Head Writers: Rene O. Villanueva, Lem Garcellano, Augie Rivera / Writers: Tomas Agulto, Donato Alvarez, Chuck Escasa, Ronald Mina, Pearl Mina, Augie Rivera, Millette Burgos, Elmer L. Gatchalian / Manufacturing Designers and Artwork Administrators: Rodell Cruz, Joji Pamintuan, Sammy Esquillon, Dwight Gaston / Musical Administrators and Composers: Louie Ocampo and Mel Villena / Lyricist: Rene O. Villanueva / Ethnic Instrumentation: Kontemporaryong Gamelang Pilipino / Final Billboard Association: Alamid / Puppet Voices and Puppeteers: Deo Noveno for Pong Pagong, Sammy Badon then Toots Javellana for Kiko Matsing, Rey Binalla for Filemon, Rose Nalundasan for Manang Bola and Ningning, Sandra Palad for Gingging, Rodelia Legazpi for Irma Daldal and Kapitan Basa / Solid: Luisito “Bodjie” Pascua, Sienna Olaso, Junix Inocian, Isay Alvarez-Seña, Ching Arellano, Dwight Gaston, Adriana Agcaoili, Soliman Cruz, and extra just lately, Abner Delina and Kakki Teodoro

Batibot is without doubt one of the Philippines’s longest working tv methods for kids elderly from 4 to 6. The phrase batibot manner “small however sturdy,” an apt description for the display’s manufacturing taste and goal of empowering Filipino youngsters. This system’s predecessor, Sesame!, used to be a Eighties co-production of the Philippine Sesame Side road Venture (PSSP), then controlled by means of the Philippine govt’s Ministry of Human Settlements, and the New York-based Youngsters’s Tv Workshop (CTW), the manufacturer of the TV program Sesame Side road. Sesame! consisted of segments in English and Filipino in {a magazine} layout. The PSSP become the Philippine Youngsters’s Tv Basis, the manufacturer of Batibot, when it parted techniques with CTW in 1984.

Batibot adopted {a magazine} layout that combines studio sequences with storytelling, situational skits, modular courses, brief tutorial tune movies, animation, reside motion motion pictures, and puppetry to supply an built-in studying enjoy for the kid. The contents put across Filipino nationalism thru the usage of the Filipino language and appreciation of items Filipino. Its segments deal with the lives of Filipino youngsters, framed by means of an academic curriculum that considers the kid’s highbrow, psycho-motor, ethical, and sociocultural building. A vital section that is helping reawaken Filipino youngsters’s love for literature is “Mga Kuwento ni Kuya Bodjie” by which Kuya Bodjie (Pascua) makes use of direct on-camera storytelling, supplemented by means of colourful illustrations depicting selection scenes. The display’s 30-minute radio model, Radyo Batibot, in particular designed for kids with ages 7 to twelve, follows the similar layout, however designs the teachings, content material, and approaches suitable for the traits, wishes, and pursuits of its audience.

Batibot featured characters from Philippine folks stories, like Pong Pagong, the six-foot large turtle mascot who stands on his hind legs, towers over human characters, and loves kangkong (water spinach), and Kiko Matsing, the husky-voiced, smart-alecky muppet monkey. Some mainstay muppet characters come with the younger chatty sisters Ningning and Gingging; the inquisitive and child-like creatures from outer area, Sitsiritsit and Alibangbang, whose names are derived from a nursery rhyme; the talkative and fashion-conscious starlet, Irma Daldal, and her male spouse, Tikyo Tiktilaok; the superhero Kapitan Basa who likes to learn; and the cute bespectacled fortune teller Manang Bola who, paradoxically, now and again suffers from reminiscence loss and whose strains when consulting her crystal ball “Perlas na bilog, huwag tutulog, sabihin agad sa akin ang sagot” (Crystal ball, be alert, inform me immediately the solution) adopted by means of “ba be bi bo bu” become so widespread in educating vowel sounds and a good way to reply to the numerous questions of kids. Those muppets go together with pleasant human characters, just like the resident storyteller Kuya Bodjie (Pascua) and the being concerned community pals Ate Sienna (Olaso), Kuya Mario (Inocian), Ate Isay (Alvarez-Seña), Mokyo (Cruz), Kuya Ching (Arellano), and Ate Joji (Agcaoili).

In 1994, Pong Pagong and Kiko Matsing had been pulled out from the display on account of alleged licensing problems with CTW. In 1999, PCTVF cooperated with Ry/Bashman Productions in repackaging the display as Batang Batibot however went off the air in 2000 when it had difficulties dealing with difficult pageant from the rising selection of Filipino and overseas tutorial methods. The revived program in 2010, with some unique and new solid individuals, featured two segments, “Kwentong Batibot” (Batibot Tales) and “Balik Batibot” (Go back to Batibot), a number of decided on episodes from the unique Batibot program.

Batibot spawned the manufacturing of kids’s books, cassette tapes of this system’s songs, language studying tapes and movies, reside leisure methods that concentrate on environmental coverage, and the similar corporate’s manufacturing of the Chinese language-Filipino TV program Pin-Pin and every other youngsters’s TV display Koko Kwik Kwak, whose persona is a four-year-old eaglet patterned after Pag-asa, the primary Philippine eagle hatched beneath laboratory stipulations. PCTVF produced 6,650 episodes in a span of twenty-two years, plus 29 episodes from the revival.

Batibot’s a large number of awards come with the Gawad CCP Para sa Telebisyon in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, and 1995; the KBP Golden Dove Awards in 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2000, and 2011; the PMPC Famous person Awards for TV in 1987, 1989, 1992, 1997, 2000, and 2013; and a number of other Catholic Mass Media Awards. It additionally received a number of awards and commendations from the Prix Jeunesse Global Competition which contains the Particular Jury Prize in 1990, the BMW prize for the “maximum remarkable program produced with restricted amenities” in 1998, and the UNICEF Prize in 2002. Batibot used to be additionally some of the finalists within the “As much as 6 years outdated Non-Fiction” class of the similar competition. Pascua additionally received two PMPC Famous person Awards, as absolute best youngsters’s display host, in 1987 and 1988.