As an afternoon newscast The newscast premiered on July 13, 1998, a year after the cancellation of
Headline Trese in 1997. It was first anchored by Anne Marie Soriano and Alice Noel. In July 5, 1999, Noel was replaced by Ida Marie Bernasconi as the newscast had several changes to the opening billboard. On February 21, 2000, returning media personality
Snooky Serna joined Soriano as its new anchor, with a brand new opening billboard, graphics, soundtrack and stand-up news delivery. On January 1, 2001, both Soriano and Serna were replaced by former teen star
Precious Hipolito-Castelo and
Malacañang correspondent Ron Gagalac as its new anchors maintaining the same title card, soundtrack, and graphics. On January 7, 2002,
Noli Eala became Castelo's new co-anchor replacing Gagalac, which he transferred to
ABS-CBN as a news reporter years later. By that time, the newscast expanded its broadcasting time to 60 minutes on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (as Wednesdays and Fridays paved way for the
PBA on IBC coverage) and had several changes later on. Several months later in the same year, Adrian Ayalin replaced Eala who left the newscast, as he moved to
IBC News Tonight. On June 7, 2004, after IBC relaunched its slogan and station ID ("Ang Bagong Pilipino") on December 12, 2003, the newscast also done changes to its studios, opening billboard and graphics; and it also reused its first soundtrack theme of the newscast (which used from the latter's debut in 1998 to 2000) for follow-details before and after news reports. A year later,
Ali Atienza replaced Ayalin, which he transferred to
ABS-CBN as a news reporter. However, Atienza left the newscast in 2007 in order to run for
mayor of Manila. He was temporarily replaced by Errol Dacame. In 2008,
DZRH radio anchor Bing Formento became Castelo's new co-anchor replacing Atienza. The team-up continued until 2009 when Castelo decided to run for Councilor of Quezon City. On November 9, 2009, Jake Morales replaced Hipolito-Castelo and Formento as its new anchor; the newscast relaunched to their graphics, soundtrack and opening billboard. For several weeks, Morales was joined by Toni Marcelo, and then, later on, Karen Padilla finally took the anchor's chair replacing the former. However, Padilla, being the wife of
Erwin Tulfo, left the newscast in early 2011 to be acquired by
TV5 to anchor for
Aksyon Breaking on
AksyonTV, leaving Morales as the sole anchor of the program, he was joined by Cathy Eigenmann as his new co-anchor on May 16, 2011. On June 20, 2011, Chal Lontoc and Zyrene Parsad-Valencia took over the new and final anchors. The newscast ceased airing on August 5, 2011, to make way for the afternoon edition of
News Team 13.
As a news bulletin On December 31, 2021,
IBC announced through its Facebook page that
IBC Express Balita will be relaunched as short news updates program airing every two hours every afternoon from Monday to Friday. The program premiered on January 1, 2022, and replaced the second iteration of
IBC Headliners that lasted for a month in 2021. On October 21, 2024, IBC Express Balita transitioned to an hourly news update format, broadcasting every weekday afternoon as part of the channel's programming changes. This format was further adjusted on December 31, 2024, with broadcasts airing several times in the afternoon and additionally in the evenings. ==Anchors==