Veteran broadcast journalist Fernando “Dindo” Amparo Sanga has taken his oath as the new director-general of the Presidential Broadcast Service-Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS) before Presidential Communications Secretary Cesar Chavez.

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The new PBS-BBS chief took his oath before the Secretary on Wednesday night, Sept. 18, during the turnover of leadership at the agency with outgoing director-general Rizal Giovanni Aportadera.

This is not Sanga’s first time in government. He started his professional career in 1987 when he worked as a development information officer at the Philippine Information Agency (PIA). But his entry into the field of broadcasting came in 1989 when he was transferred to BBS-Radyo ng Bayan and worked as a radio reporter, news writer, and newscaster.

As a news executive, Sanga, also known as Dindo Amparo, was an assistant vice president of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs from 2014 to 2020. As head of news gathering, he has administrative and operational control of all news personnel of TV news, the former DZMM, the regional network group, and The Filipino Channel (TFC) news bureaus abroad.

He has covered various beats such as the graveyard shift of the police beat, earthquakes, and war/conflicts including the US-Iraq war in the mid-90s where he was deployed to the Middle East and was stationed in various countries affected by that conflict.

Following the war, he was permanently appointed chief of the ABS-CBN Middle East News Bureau and led about 20 correspondents across the region.

When war erupted in Lebanon in 2006, Sanga was again deployed to cover the Filipino workers, mostly domestic helpers, who were trapped in the war. After the war, he was conferred the "Bayani Award" by the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai for his contribution to the repatriation mission of the Philippine government for Filipino workers in Lebanon.

Also in 2006, the late former Migrant Workers Secretary Susan "Toots" Ople acknowledged Sanga for the successful rescue of several Filipina victims of human trafficking in Syria.

In 2011, Sanga was awarded the Quezon Medalya ng Karangalan - the highest award conferred by the Province of Quezon annually for its outstanding citizens.

Sanga is a Communication Arts graduate of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.