As of writing, the channel has been dormant since TVJ and company left TAPE in May.
After months of creating social media accounts repeatedly, TAPE has gotten hold of one of the original accounts.
On YouTube, once a user searches for the ‘Eat Bulaga’ channel, they will be directed to the channel used during the TVJ era.
The channel, which was founded on January 6, 2012, features 21,000 videos, is verified and has 5.39 million subscribers as of writing.
But upon looking deeper into it, they will see the logo of the new ‘Eat Bulaga,’ which was relaunched last June. Aside from that, the banner photo has been replaced with the current slogan of the TAPE-produced show, which is “Tahanang Pinakamasaya.”
As of the moment though, TAPE has not uploaded a single video of the new iteration hosted by Isko Moreno, Paolo Contis, and company, on the channel.
It is unclear too as to how TAPE was able to take control of the channel.
But it is understood that prior to the change, it was the TVJ era team that held control of the channel, as well as the ‘Eat Bulaga!’ Facebook page.
This was also confirmed by Tito Sotto in the past, who had also been quoted saying that the production group has the control over these social media accounts, and not the management of TAPE. He also shared back then that TAPE had also been asking for the access to the social media accounts named after “Eat Bulaga.”
The social media factor
The said channel has been inactive for over three months now. This meant that to distribute their current program, TAPE has to resort to creating a new channel, but that went under as unknown parties reported the account.
The same is true for newly-created Facebook pages for the show from TAPE, which were also taken down. In the interim, they made use of the pages of hosts Paolo Contis, Isko Moreno, among others. But later on, they also created a Facebook page named “TAPE INC.” and has since amassed 200K followers as of writing.
Host broadcaster GMA Network’s YouTube channel also uploaded selected clips from the episodes of the TAPE noontime program. Livestream was then made available through Isko Moreno’s personal channel.
Meanwhile, the TVJ group that is now on TV5 with ‘E.A.T.’ has also since made their own YT channel and FB page named “TVJ”. On Facebook, it has 1.6 million followers, while 556 thousand users are subscribed to them on YouTube.
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