The 2018 Christmas Station ID\u2019s heartwarming stories featuring five unique families have shown that in times of joy or despair, triumphs or trials, we all go back to where we feel love, comfort, acceptance and hope \u2014 our family.<\/p>\n These are the\u00a0Garcia brothers<\/strong>\u2014three military men from different military services who fought side by side during the Marawi siege who were often separated for years; superwoman and mom\u00a0Lorlie \u201cKeribels\u201d Noblezada<\/strong>\u00a0who earned her college degree while juggling jobs as a fisherman, security guard, traffic enforcer, coast guard volunteer, masahista, and \u201ccrying lady\u201d and supporting her family of ten;\u00a0Dr. Viktorija Cirvinskaite<\/strong>, a 30 year-old missionary doctor from Lithuania who found family in the residents of Talim Island, when she found her calling and stayed to become its only resident doctor; Asian Games gold medalist\u00a0Margielyn Didal<\/strong>\u00a0and her family, who worked together to support the skateboarder in reaching her dreams; and inspiring\u00a0communities in Benguet<\/strong>, who helped one another despite tragic losses to rise up after the ravage of typhoon Ompong.<\/p>\n Hundreds of Kapamilya stars participated in the video, which was sung by the likes of\u00a0Vice Ganda<\/strong>,\u00a0Coco Martin<\/strong>,\u00a0Sarah Geronimo<\/strong>,\u00a0Gary Valenciano<\/strong>,\u00a0Piolo Pascual<\/strong>, new\u00a0Kapamilya<\/em>\u00a0Regine Velasquez<\/strong>, and loveteams Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla, Enrique Gil and\u00a0Liza Soberano<\/strong>,\u00a0James Reid<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Nadine Lustre<\/strong>, and\u00a0Joshua Garcia<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Julia Barretto<\/strong>. The Kapamilya Network released a recording lyric video featuring the artists who led the vocals last November 16 that has already garnered more than 3.1 million views on Youtube as of November 22 (Manila time).<\/p>\n Netizens also had rave reviews for the station ID, with the hashtag\u00a0#FamilyIsLoveDay<\/em>\u00a0also trending worldwide on Twitter.<\/p>\n \u201cThis Station ID is beautiful; it really tugs at the heart strings and it made me miss my parents who both passed away last year,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>said YouTube user Reli RJ.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, another netizen lauded the Station ID for reminding him of home.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you\u00a0ABS-CBN. Living in the US for the last 25 years and not being able to celebrate Christmas in the Philippines because of work, I always look forward to your Holiday Station ID,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Facebook user Frederick Torres Nangca. \u201cAnd as always, you nailed it and it\u2019s hitting hard; with \u2018kurot\u2019 but with a \u2018ngiti\u2019 after watching the whole segment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The ABS-CBN Christmas Station ID 2018 was created by ABS-CBN Creative Communications Management (CCM) Division headed by\u00a0Robert Labayen<\/strong>,\u00a0Johnny De Los Santos<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Patrick de Leon<\/strong>, and ABS-CBN COO for Broadcast\u00a0Cory Vidanes<\/strong>and directed by\u00a0Paolo Ramos<\/strong>\u00a0with second unit directors\u00a0Peewee Azarcon Gonzales<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Lorenz Roi Morales<\/strong>. Lyrics were written by\u00a0Robert<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Lloyd Oliver Corpuz<\/strong>\u00a0and brought to life by composers\u00a0Marcus Davis<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Amber Davis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Also lending their voices in the song were the UST Singers, the AFP Chorale,\u00a0Ramon Magsaysay High School Choir<\/strong>–Manila<\/strong>,and\u00a0Koro Bangkal Magbikin<\/strong>.\u00a0Amber Davis<\/strong>\u00a0also provided vocals for the music used for the five stories.<\/p>\n Behind the\u00a02018 ABS-CBN Christmas Station ID is the\u00a0ABS-CBN Creative Communication Management division in synergy with\u00a0ABS-CBN Integrated Marketing, ABS-CBN TV Entertainment, ABS-CBN News, ABS-CBN Regional, ABS-CBN Sports and Action, ABS-CBN Digital Terrestrial Television, ABS-CBN Digital Media Division, ABS-CBN Licensing, ABS-CBN Property Management, ABS-CBN Star Magic, ABS-CBN Global, ABS-CBN Safety and Security, and ABS-CBN Corporate Communications.<\/p>\n The 2018 Christmas Station ID entitled\u00a0Family is Love<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is now airing on ABS-CBN channel 2 and posted online on the ABS-CBN Facebook and ABS-CBN Entertainment YouTube channel.\u00a0 For those outside the Philippines, you may catch it via The Filipino Channel (TFC), TFC Online\u00a0(www.TFC.tv<\/a>), TFC IPTV, and on TFC\u2019s Facebook pages applicable for your area.<\/p>\n For updates on this year\u2019s ABS-CBN Christmas Station ID, follow the official hashtag\u00a0#FamilyIsLove<\/em>. Connect with fellow global Kapamilyas and follow @KapamilyaTFC, KapamilyaGlobalPR and abscbnpr on Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Featuring the inspiring stories of families by blood and in a community, the \u201cFamily is Love\u201d station ID trends online …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":190798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-princesita-p-babon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/unnamed.jpg\")
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