Career
He spent more than 40 years in the field of broadcasting. He was best known as the weatherman in the ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network news program television Patrol. He was also known as The Walking Encyclopedia.
When ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network returned on the air after the Marcos regime, he hosted the radio program Knowledge Power as well as its spin-off show on television of the same title.
He also advocated the use of herbal medicine called pito pito and cleansing diet in his programs and media appearances, which irked medical professionals and then dismissed him as promoter of quack medicine. Baron appears his first movie Pera o Bayong (based on the game segment from Magandang Tanghali Bayan).
Baron was also a proponent of scientific and technological advances in the Philippines. To attest to this, he was the inventor of the so-called Baron Super Antenna, a sophisticated yet reasonably-priced outdoor television antenna.
He died of myocardial infarction on the morning of 23 January 2006 in Muntinlupa at the age of 65.
Broadcaster Mel Tiangco announced his passing at the end of the said date"s episode of 24 Oras.
