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Harry Gasser
Harry Alesna Gasser (December 2, 1936 – April 3, 2014) was a Philippine news presenter. Gasser was the face of Philippine evening news at the time of the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.
He started his journalistic career as an anchor of Balita Ngayon on ABS-CBN from 1969 to 1972. Following the closure of the network during Martial Law, Gasser transferred to BBC-2 where he anchored BBC Primetime News from 1973 to 1976. He was the main anchor of RPN's NewsWatch from 1976 to 1997. He also worked with Radio Veritas as news manager and later moved on to ABS-CBN to anchor TV Patrol in Cebu City from 1998-2001.
He was also overseas program manager and news manager of Radio Veritas.
Gasser was married to veteran comedian Flora Gasser. They had two children. Loren Legarda, who co-anchored NewsWatch with Gasser on RPN, noted that "he was a proud Cebuano."
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Harry Gasser
Harry Alesna Gasser (December 2, 1936 – April 3, 2014) was a Philippine news presenter. Gasser was the face of Philippine evening news at the time of the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.
He started his journalistic career as an anchor of Balita Ngayon on ABS-CBN from 1969 to 1972. Following the closure of the network during Martial Law, Gasser transferred to BBC-2 where he anchored BBC Primetime News from 1973 to 1976. He was the main anchor of RPN's NewsWatch from 1976 to 1997. He also worked with Radio Veritas as news manager and later moved on to ABS-CBN to anchor TV Patrol in Cebu City from 1998-2001.
He was also overseas program manager and news manager of Radio Veritas.
Gasser was married to veteran comedian Flora Gasser. They had two children. Loren Legarda, who co-anchored NewsWatch with Gasser on RPN, noted that "he was a proud Cebuano."