Kim Atienza
Kim Atienza was born in Manila, Luzon, Philippines on January 6th, 1967 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 57, Kim Atienza biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Alejandro Ilagan Atienza (born January 6, 1967), also known as Kim Atienza or Kuya Kim, is a Filipino television presenter, narrator, and a former politician.
He is currently a resident weather anchor in ABS-CBN's "Weather Lang" segment.
Atienza was the eldest son of former Manila and Buhay Party-list Representative Lito Atienza, as well as Ali Atienza's brother.
Education
Atienza received his degree from University of Santo Tomas in 1983, where he began studying Education as a freshman college student. He transferred to University of Philippines Diliman, where he would obtain his bachelor's degree in Film and Audiovisual Communication a year later. Since he once despised school, it was revealed that it took him seven years to complete college. Nevertheless, he said that he loved learning so he promised to do it himself.
Personal life
Kim Atienza is married to Felicia Hung and they have three children: Jose III, Eliana, and Emman. Atienza is the president and founding member of Chinese International School Manila (CISM). Kim Atienza is a marathoner, triathlete, and cyclist. Lito Atienza, the local politician, is Atienza's father, although politicians Ali Atienza and Maile Atienza are his siblings.
In 2010, Atienza had a stroke. He was found to have Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare condition that affects the nervous system. Atienza has completely recovered and has since completed multiple marathons, 70.3 Ironman, and full Ironman races. He continues to compete and lead his age group to this day.
Career
Atienza has been in politics for twelve years. From 1995 to 2004, he served as councilor of Manila from the 5th district for three terms. One of his notable resolutions that he filed to the city council is the resolution in 1998 declaring actress Claire Danes as persona non grata and banning her films after Danes criticized the state of Manila's cleanliness. In 2004, he ran as representative of the 5th District of Manila but lost to Joey Hizon. His father, then Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, asked him to run for Mayor of Manila in 2007 but he declined and then he retired, thinking that politics are scary.
He started his broadcasting career in the early 1990s, as the anchor of "Mata ng Agila", an early morning newscast of DZEC Radyo Agila 1062, together with Onin Miranda.
Atienza started his stint on TV when he began hosting Magandang Umaga, Pilipinas' Animalandia as well as voice acting in the 90's. He is also best known for voicing Takeru (renamed as Michael Joe) which is portrayed by Japanese Sentai actor Ryousuke Kaizu from the Super Sentai series, Hikari Sentai Maskman and he also references this in later years when he was being interviewed by fellow celebrity hosts.
He then became ABS-CBN's weather tracker for TV Patrol until he became the show's weather presenter when Ernie Baron died of heart attack in 2006.
He left the early morning show, Umagang Kay Ganda in 2009 to host the late morning variety show It's Showtime (then named Showtime). He began hosting Matanglawin on March 24, 2008.
He returned to radio for the 2nd time overall and also for the first time on DZMM via Sakto with Amy Perez-Castillo, replacing original host Marc Logan who left the show. It also aired both on DZMM and DZMM TeleRadyo in 2018.
On September 29, 2021, Atienza announced that he would leave ABS-CBN on October 1 as part of its retrenchment program caused by the ABS-CBN shutdown from the Philippine Congress that junked the new ABS-CBN legislative franchise to operate, as he would transfer to GMA Network. He joined the newscast 24 Oras on October 4, but his eponymous segment of the program titled "#KuyaKimAnoNa" debuted a week later on October 11. He also hosted the talk show Mars Pa More since November 8 and an news magazine show titled Dapat Alam Mo! on GTV since October 18, that serves as pre-programming to 24 Oras, the show also started its provisional simulcast on GMA from February 14 to March 18, 2022. In July 2022, he was named as a host of the new variety show TiktoClock.
Awards
- 29th Star Awards for Television Best Education Program Host – for Matanglawin
- 28th Star Awards for Television Best Education Program Host – for Matanglawin
- 26th Star Awards for Television Best Education or Children's Program Host – for Matanglawin
- 25th Star Awards for Television Best Educational Program Host – for Matanglawin
- 24th Star Awards for Television Best Educational Program Host – for Matanglawin
- 22nd Star Awards for Television Best Educational Program Host – for Matanglawin
- 32nd Star Awards for Television Best Educational Program Host – for Matanglawin
- 26th Star Awards for Television Best Game or Reality Show Host – for It's Showtime
- 2015 KBP Golden Dove Awards for Best Children's Show – for Matanglawin
- 2008 KBP Golden Dove Awards for Best Children's Show – for Matanglawin
- 2007 KBP Golden Dove Awards for Best Children's Show – for Matanglawin
- 2015 Golden Screen Awards for Outstanding Natural History Wildlife Program Host and Show – for Matanglawin
- 2012 Golden Screen Awards for Outstanding Natural History Wildlife Program Host and Show – for Matanglawin
- 2011 Golden Screen Awards for Outstanding Natural History Wildlife Program Host and Show – for Matanglawin