 In October 1995, Dumpit was hired by the Associated Broadcasting Company to lead its news team as anchor of "Balitang Balita", an early evening newscast and two years later, she became the anchor of the late night newscast The Big News replacing Tina Monzon-Palma as the lead anchor due to her transfer to ABS-CBN's The World Tonight after Loren Legarda decided to leave the newscast when she ran and won as senator in the 1998 elections.Palma took Legarda's chair.After four years as its senior news anchor, Dumpit negotiated for a change in the terms and conditions of her work status and when her contract was not renewed in October 1999, she sent a letter to Jose Javier, Vice President for News and Public Affairs of ABC, stating that she considered this a constructive dismissal of her services.