THE coming of television giant GMA-7 finally with its studios and crew to Dagupan can only be for the greater good of public service and information in Pangasinan and its four cities.

One way of viewing this development in the local information sector is that GMA’s setting shop here to pit programs with rival network ABS-CBN’s means there’s money to make in this part of northern Luzon, something you can hardly begrudge these giant telecom industries for wanting to have a piece of.

Another way of looking at GMA’s chosing to be in Pangasinan, specifically Dagupan, is that there’s a whole wide and fertile ground out there for public service and news-entertainment that eager servers can fill and often eagerly do.

Indeed with its vast area and vibrant economic potentials, Pangasinan is every agency’s and investor’s dream for a playing field and commanding presence. Its people always open to welcome newcomers and fresh opportunities, it is just now slowly realizing that for it to attain the pinnacle of success seemingly already achieved by its counterpart giant provinces like Cebu and Rizal, it must empower its people with information to turn their
lives – and manner of thinking – around.

Media is a vital part of such empowerment. While the province already has a surfeit of newspapers and radio stations to begin with, the coming of television into the landscape completes the equation.

From here on, and sooner not later, with the combined effective reaches of these media forms, not a single corner, not a lone nook of the province, will ever be caught and labeled as “information poor.” The modern-day purveyors of news and information who set out to do their daily task of bringing the news to the people where it happens and when it happens, will see to that.