Balitang Bisdak

Balitang Bisdak(also known asGMA Regional TV Balitang Bisdak;transl.BisdakNews) is aPhilippine televisionnews broadcasting show broadcast byGMA Cebu. Originally anchored byBobby Nalzaro, it premiered on October 4, 1999, replacingNews at Seven Cebu. Lou-Anne Mae Rondina currently serves as the anchor.
Presented from the studios of GMA TV Cebu, it provides news and features aroundCebu City,Metro Cebu, andprovince of the same nameand the rest ofCentral VisayasincludingNegros Oriental,Bohol, andSiquijor; as well asEastern Visayas(includingNorthern Samar,Western Samar,Eastern Samar,BiliranandLeytewhere interviewees speak Waray whileSouthern Leytealso uses Cebuano, which is spoken by them), through the station's news teams and stringers across the two regions.
The newscast airs every Monday to Friday from 5:10 PM to 5:40 PM on GMA Cebu (TV-7) and via satellite on relay stationsGMA TV-10 Tacloban, GMA TV-11 Bohol, GMA TV-5 Dumaguete, GMA TV-5 Calbayog,GMA TV-8 Boronganand GMA TV-12 Ormoc. It is also aired on a slightly delayed basis over radio stationDYSS 999 AMat 6:00 PM.
Balitang Bisdakwas also re-aired for national viewers underGTV's late night block "Regional TV Strip" on a weekly basis. It aired every Tuesday at 11:50 PM from May 19, 2020 to July 20, 2021.
The program also airs worldwide onGMA News TVInternational.
The newscast was first aired on Channel 7 in Cebu on October 4, 1999, two years afterBobby NalzaroleftBombo Radyo Cebuin 1997 and transferred to GMA Cebu as a regional news anchor and became a solo anchor of the newscast until 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 onGMA News TV Internationalalongside other regional newscastsBalitang Amianan(formerly24 Oras North Central Luzonand24 Oras Amianan, nowOne North Central Luzon) andOne Mindanao(formerlyTestigo,24 Oras Southern Mindanaoand24 Oras Davao).
Balitang Bisdak ended its 15-year run on November 7, 2014, as it adopted the branding of its now-main newscast24 Orasinto24 Oras Central Visayaseffective November 10.
However, on February 1, 2016,24 Oras Central Visayasreverted its branding back toBalitang Bisdak, after more than a year hiatus oppositeGMA Dagupan'sBalitang Amianan.
On November 13, 2017, Balitang Bisdak was relaunched similar to sister newscastsBalitang AmiananandOne 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. Co-anchor and veteran correspondent Alan Domingo joined Nalzaro and Quibod-Castro in the anchor team.
Two days after the launch ofGMA Regional TV Weekend News(laterRegional TV Weekend News, nowRegional TV 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 scenes 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.
On June 29, 2020, the program merged with GMA Iloilo'sOne Western Visayasdue to GMA Regional TV's decision to suspendGMA Cebu's program production due to the increasingly intense situation in Cebu City caused by theCOVID-19 pandemic. With that, reports from the newscast delivered in theCebuano languageare then transmitted to the Iloilo station and will be broadcast in the network's regional stations in Western, Central, and Eastern Visayas. In the interim, the program isde factonamedGMA Regional TV's Unified Newscast in the Visayas, One Western Visayas-Balitang Bisdak newscast. Aside from Cebuano and Waray, the program now uses Filipino on studio presentation alongsideHiligaynonreports fromOne Western Visayas.This marks the return of a multilingual newscast of the network sinceGMA Davao'sOne Mindanaowhich used Cebuano and Filipino before switching to full Cebuano. On July 2, 2020, Bobby Nalzaro returned as co-anchor.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.
On May 3, 2021, the program added Samar to its coverage area. And with it, comes a new opening billboard.
From March 17 to 21, 2022, the newscast held a tribute for main anchor Nalzaro, who died at the age of 58,leaving Domingo and Quibod-Castro as anchors. Co-anchor and veteran correspondent Lou-Anne Mae Rondina joined the anchor team on May 2, 2022, for the newscast until July 28, 2023, when the latter was transferred to the morning newscastGMA Regional TV Live!the following week.
On January 26, 2024, co-anchor Cecile Quibod-Castro marks her last appearance after almost 2 decades (although she remained as an anchor inRegional TV Newswhich eventually fused as a segment onBalitanghali), leaving Domingo as the sole main anchor for the newscast.
On September 2, 2024, the newscast tweaked a major revision of its title card. It changed its font color to blue, the logo for GMA Regional TV was removed, and the graphics and OBB were changed to reflect it under GMA Integrated News.
28 days later, on September 30, 2024, Lou-Anne Mae Rondina replaced Domingo to coincide with another revamping of the newscast. Also, the GMA Integrated News OBB replaced the GMA Regional TV's own OBB. The display of the headlines is also changed, with the main headline serving as the title and the program's name serving as the subtitle.