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Brigada (TV program)

Philippine television show

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4967134 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brigada (transl. brigade) is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA News TV and GTV. Originally hosted by Jessica Soho, it premiered on GMA News TV on February 28, 2011. The show concluded on March 16, 2024. Kara David served as the final host.

Hosts

Jessica Soho (2011–19)

Kara David (2019–24)

Overview

The production was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on September 19, 2020. In February 2021, GMA News TV was rebranded as GTV, with the show being carried over.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Brigada (TV program)” as philippine television show. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Brigada, program and Philippine.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2024, 2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Brigada, program and Philippine providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4967134. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2024, 2019 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brigada (TV program)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.