Magandang Gabi, Bayan

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Magandang Gabi, Bayan (Good Evening, Philippines), produced by Bayan Productions, was a top rated news magazine program in the Philippines. It was aired Saturday nights on ABS-CBN, the show's last broadcast was on the 31st of December, 2005. The cancellation of the show rumored to be caused by problems with long-time host Noli de Castro and the ABS-CBN management. It was circulated in daily local broadsheets, that the station wanted to attack the Arroyo administration using the show, but de Castro (currently the Vice-President of the Philippines) decline to attack the 'administration, because I'm [he is] part of it.'

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Started in 1987, its first anchor "Kabayan" (fellow-countrymen) Noli de Castro. The program's aim is to expose illegalities of some Philippine government officials as well as to render public service to the Filipino people. Continues to hold the title for the leading and longest public service program in the Philippines.

After de Castro run for senate, the program brought in new hosts Katherine "Kat-Kat" de Castro (de Castro's daughter), Erwin Tulfo and Henry Omaga Diaz.