Eat Bulaga! is a Philippine television noontime variety show currently broadcast on TV5 and simulcast on RPTV. with over 13,000 episodes, it was Originally hosted by Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, and Joey de Leon, with Chiqui Hollmann and Richie D'Horsie, the show was first premiered on July 30, 1979, at Radio Philippines Network, and the show was moved to ABS-CBN on 1989, and also moved to GMA Network on January 1995, and moved to TV5 since January 2024.
It is the longest-running noontime variety show in the Philippines. Eat Bulaga! is currently produced by TVJ Productions, Inc. and led by the Sotto brothers and De Leon with their co-hosts, Allan K., Jose Manalo, Wally Bayola, Paolo Ballesteros, Ryan Agoncillo, Ryzza Mae Dizon, Maine Mendoza, Miles Ocampo, Carren Eistrup, and Atasha Muhlach, collectively known as “Legit Dabarkads".
Eat... Bulaga!: Moving On at Araneta Coliseum in 1989
Alden Richards
Maine Mendoza
Tito Sotto
Television in the Philippines
Television in the Philippines was introduced in October 1953 upon the first commercial broadcast made by Alto Broadcasting System, making the Philippines the first Southeast Asian country and the second in Asia to do so. Even before that, during the late 1940s, several academic experiments had been done and replicated by Filipino engineers and students.
Philippine Idol