The Brightlight Productions-produced show started airing on A2Z and Kapamilya Channel on Saturday, July 16.
Billy Crawford thanked the viewers of his pre-noontime show, Tropang LOL (formerly Lunch Out Loud) after it recorded its highest TV rating since it debuted on TV5 in October 2020.
The award-winning television host formally announced the good news during the airing of Tropang LOL on Tuesday, July 19, which also marked the third day that the show aired live on its new timeslot at 11 am.
The variety show previously occupied TV5’s noon time slot, but it moved to its current earlier time slot to accommodate It’s Showtime, which started airing on TV5 last Saturday, August 16.
Tropang LOL’s expansion to A2Z and Kapamilya Channel certainly gave the show a boost as reflected by the latest data provided by AGB Nielsen. According to the rating provider, the pilot episode of the show scored a 2.9% people rating, which is now the highest rating to date. It is worth noting that such a figure is already nearly twice as high as the show’s usual ratings when it was still airing solely on TV5 and in the noontime slot. On July 11, Monday, for example, AGB Nielsen reported that the show rated 1.6%.
Before its transfer to the 11 am time slot, Tropang LOL and It’s Showtime took turns as the second most watched noontime show in the country, just behind the four-decade-old Eat Bulaga. While it may now struggle to outrank the Kapamilya noontime show, which, incidentally is also Billy Crawford’s former show, the Kapatid variety show is expected to post higher ratings in its succeeding episodes, due to its improved free TV reach, courtesy of A2Z.
The pre-noontime show also notably started streaming on YouTube via Kapamilya Online Live and on iWantTFC. Overseas viewers can now also watch the show via The Filipino Channel (TFC) and its IPTV service.
