Balitang Bisdak

Presented from the studios of GMA TV Cebu, it provides news and features around Cebu City and province of the same name and the rest of Central Visayas including Negros Oriental (including Dumaguete City), Bohol, and Siquijor; as well as the Cebuano-speaking areas of Eastern Visayas (including Northern Samar, Western Samar, Eastern Samar, Biliran, Southern Leyte and Leyte) and interviewees speak Waray, through the station's news teams and stringers across the two regions.

The newscast airs every Monday to Friday from 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM on GMA TV-7 Cebu and via satellite on relay stations GMA TV-10 Tacloban, GMA TV-11 Bohol, GMA TV-5 Dumaguete, GMA TV-5 Calbayog, GMA TV-8 Borongan, and GMA TV-12 Ormoc. It is also aired on a slightly-delayed basis over radio station DYSS 999 AM at 6:00 PM.

Balitang Bisdak is also re-aired for national viewers under GMA News TV's late night block "GMA Regional TV Strip" on a weekly basis. It airs every Tuesday at 10:00 PM since May 19, 2020.[1]

The program also airs worldwide on GMA News TV International.[2]

The newscast was first aired on Channel 7 in Cebu on October 4, 1999, two years after Bobby Nalzaro left Bombo Radyo Cebu in 1997 and transfers to GMA Cebu to be a regional news anchor and became a solo anchor of the newscast until 2005 when Cecille Quibod-Castro became anchor with Nalzaro, and in 2009 when Atty. Rose Versoza joined in the newscast and stayed until 2015.

To strengthen its commitment of bringing the latest, most credible and most comprehensive news from the region, in July 2013, the newscast started its international broadcast on GMA News TV International alongside other regional newscasts Balitang Amianan (formerly 24 Oras North Central Luzon and 24 Oras Amianan) and One Mindanao (formerly Testigo, 24 Oras Southern Mindanao and 24 Oras Davao).[3]

Balitang Bisdak ended its 15th year run on November 7, 2014 as it adopts the branding of its now-main newscast 24 Oras into 24 Oras Central Visayas effective November 10.

However, on February 1, 2016, 24 Oras Central Visayas reverted its branding back to Balitang Bisdak, after more than a year hiatus opposite GMA Dagupan's Balitang Amianan.[4]

On November 13, 2017, Balitang Bisdak was relaunched similar to sister newscasts Balitang Amianan and One Mindanao, and it is now available in major parts of Central and Eastern Visayas, by simulcasting the program through its relay stations in Tacloban, Bohol and Ormoc. Veteran reporter Alan Domingo joined Nalzaro and Quibod-Castro in the anchor team.[5]

Two days after the launch of GMA Regional TV Weekend News, on July 29, 2019, Balitang Bisdak updated their graphics and introduced a modified logo and new opening titles patterned with its co-produced national newscast (featuring the sceneries of the program's coverage area). For the first time, the newscast had a more relaxed set-up with couches instead of the tables and chairs that viewers usually see on typical newscasts intending to be an extension of viewers' living room, further connecting the news anchors and the viewers. In addition to the new studio set, Balitang Bisdak opens its doors to the public as it invites viewers to participate as live studio audience every Friday.[6]

On June 29, 2020, the program merged with GMA Iloilo's One Western Visayas due to GMA Regional TV's decision to suspend GMA Cebu's program production due to the increasingly intense situation in Cebu City caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With that, reports from the newscast delivered in the Cebuano language are then transmitted to the Iloilo station and will be broadcast in the network's regional stations in Western, Central and Eastern Visayas. In interim, the program is de facto named as GMA Regional TV One Western Visayas-Balitang Bisdak newscast. Aside from Cebuano and Waray, the program now uses Filipino on studio presentation alongside Hiligaynon reports from One Western Visayas.[7] This marks the return of a multilingual newscast of the network since GMA Davao's One Mindanao which used Cebuano and Filipino before switching to full Cebuano. On July 2, 2020, Bobby Nalzaro returned as co-anchor. [8] The merger ended on July 10, 2020, when the program returned on July 13 due to the resumption of GMA Cebu's program production. The program also reverted its overall medium of delivery in the Cebuano language[9]

• Cebu City and Cebu
• Tagbilaran City and Bohol
• Dumaguete City and Negros Oriental
• Siquijor and Siquijor
• Tacloban City and Leyte
• Maasin City and Southern Leyte
• Catarman and Northern Samar
• Calbayog City and Western Samar
• Borongan City and Eastern Samar
• Naval and Biliran

• Alerto (Police News)
• Bisdak Sports (Sports News)
• Flash Report (Breaking News)
• Huli Cam (Reports on footages in CCTV)
• Newstand (Other Reports)
• Ronda Waray (Other Reports in Eastern Visayas)
• Serbisyong Puso (Public Service)
• Showbiz Kini (Entertainment News)
• GMA Regional TV Presents (Special Reports)
• Extra
• Extra Income (Money News)
• Bida Ka
• Hanepbuhay
• Bisdak Bae
• Good News
• Reklamo, Ipa-Bisdak mo
• Balitang Barangay (Community News)
• Batang Bisdak (Kiddie News)
• Manglaag Ta! (Travel)
• Lami Syah!/Food Trip (Food)
• Lahi Rah (Viral News)
• Hayop sa Balita
• Dagan sa Panahon (Weather News)
• Spread Kindness
• 'Sa Maaan ... ? (Questions)

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