Originally anchored by Bobby Nalzaro, it premiered on October 4, 1999, replacing News at Seven Cebu.

Presented from the studios of GMA TV Cebu, it provides news and features around Cebu City, Metro Cebu, and province of the same name and the rest of Central Visayas including Negros Oriental, Bohol, and Siquijor; as well as Eastern Visayas (including Northern Samar, Western Samar, Eastern Samar, Biliran and Leyte where interviewees speak Waray while Southern Leyte also uses Cebuano, which is spoken by them), through the station's news teams and stringers across the two regions.

Balitang Bisdak was also re-aired for national viewers under GTV's late night block "Regional TV Strip" on a weekly basis.

[citation needed] On November 13, 2017, Balitang Bisdak was relaunched similar to sister newscasts Balitang Amianan and One Mindanao, and it is now available in major parts of Central and Eastern Visayas, by simulcasting the program through its relay stations in Tacloban, Bohol and Ormoc.

Co-anchor and veteran correspondent Alan Domingo joined Nalzaro and Quibod-Castro in the anchor team.

Aside from Cebuano and Waray, the program now uses Filipino on studio presentation alongside Hiligaynon reports from One Western Visayas.

28 days later, on September 30, 2024, Lou-Anne Mae Rondina replaced Domingo to coincide with another revamping of the newscast.