PCSO Lottery Draw
The program is also simulcast over DWAN 1206 AM, Brigada News FM stations and PCSO and IBC's websites, Facebook pages and YouTube accounts.
On October 27, 2019, the program launched a new segment called "Handog Pasasalamat sa Pamilyang Pilipino", as part of the 85th-anniversary celebration of the PCSO.
In the segment, five families from a selected barangay would receive various items, such as groceries, as well as cash prizes from a sponsor usually associated with the PCSO.
Before every draw, a clip is aired showing the inspection earlier in the day of the blowing machines, called "Mega Gems", and the balls to be used for each game.
In the digit lottery games and the 2D Lotto with top drawing Mega Gems, the balls used to be adjusted to clearly show the numbers drawn.
As of September 2023, the Small Town Lottery Authorized Agent Corporations (AAC) listed some areas from Visayas and Mindanao will be used for the National Draw Results for their Operations.
On July 27, 2019, the program was put on temporary hiatus following a verbal order from President Rodrigo Duterte to suspend all gambling-related operations of PCSO along with the MTRCB's Live on PTV 4, due to corruption allegations.
[7][8] On March 17, 2020, the program was put into temporary hiatus for the second time, as PCSO gaming operations and small-town lotteries in Luzon (later expanded to Visayas and Mindanao on April 7) were suspended following the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
[9][10][11][12] The program once again partially resumed on July 20, 2020, to hold catch-up draws for all tickets sold prior to the suspension of the gaming operations during the enhanced community quarantine.
[13] The program fully resumed, along with PCSO's lotto operations, on August 7[14] (originally scheduled on August 4) in areas already under general community quarantine (GCQ) and modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), The Small Town Lottery, among other games, remained suspended.
[15][16][17] On July 30, 2022, the program was reformatted into a better and more organized version that included the following segments: Usapang STL, What You Should Know, Charity in Action, PCSO News Blitz, and Recap Time.
On November 18, 2023, the Hosts also transitioned from PCSO Employees to Beauty Queens, Artists, and Social Media Personalities.
For every draw of the jackpot-bearing games, The PCSO Data center conducts the encoding of winning numbers and updating jackpot winners from the Remote Access Management Terminal or RAMT based on the new Lottery System and E-Lotto.
