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Ernesto Baron (
August 15 1940 –January 23 2006 ) was a Filipino broadcaster. He spent more than 40 years in the field of broadcasting. He was best known as the weatherman in theABS-CBN news programTV Patrol . He was also known as "The Walking Encyclopedia".Considered as one of the pioneers of Radyo Patrol, which counts as contemporaries, among others,
Rey Langit ,Noli de Castro ,Joe Taruc , Mario Garcia, andBong Lapira , Baron, "Ka Ernie" to his legions of followers, started his radio career with the general information program, "Gintong Kaalaman", on the old DZAQ, the forerunner of what is now DZMM Radyo Patrol 630.When ABS-CBN returned on air after the Marcos regime, he hosted the radio program Knowledge Power as well as its spin-off show on TV of the same title. He also advocated the use of herbal medicine called "pito pito" and "cleansing diet" in his programs and media appearances, which irked medical professionals and then dismissed him as promoter of quack medicine.
Baron was also an exponent of scientific and technological advances in the Philippines. To attest to this, he was the inventor of the so-called Baron Antenna, a sophisticated yet reasonably-priced outdoor
TV antenna.He died of a heart attack on the morning of
January 23 2006 , aged 65. He has one daughter, Shirley Baron."'Awards
References
* [http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/jan/25/yehey/opinion/20060125opi8.html Charlatan to some, but idol to many]
* [http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=police03_jan24_2006 Ernie Baron Passes Away at 65]External links
* [http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryID=28089 ABS-CBN News - Ernie Baron 'always a kapamilya' ]
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