‘KMJS’ IS PHL’S MOST FOLLOWED TIKTOK NEWS PUBLISHER; YOUNG PINOY STUDENT GETS US PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
AWARD-WINNING news magazine program Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS) sets another record as it becomes the most followed Philippine news publisher on Tiktok.
Hosted by GMA News pillar Jessica Soho, KMJS now has 3.1 million followers on Tiktok. Its account has over 39.6 million likes with over 550 million lifetime views.
GMA Public Affairs, which previously led the list, is at second spot with 2.9 million followers.
This comes on the heels of an earlier milestone recorded by the show on another popular socialmedia platform, Facebook.
Still the most-followed Philippine TV program on Facebook, KMJS now has 28 million followers. For the first half of 2022 alone, it has already amassed over 1.2 billion views on the platform.
The show continues to be a force to be reckoned with on other social-media platforms. On Instagram, it has 2.1 million followers. On Twitter—where it regularly trends—the show has over 1 million followers. A multi-platform leader, KMJS is also one of the main drivers of GMA Public Affairs’ Youtube channel. For 2022, its videos generated over 570 million views on Youtube.
On television, KMJS remains as the Filipinos’ favorite Sunday viewing habit.
Based on Nielsen Philippines’s National Urban TV Audience Measurement data for January to June 2022,
KMJS remains the leading weekend program with 16.2 percent people rating. Further, it is the viewers’ preferred show in its timeslot with a 69 percent audience share.
Airing on Sundays after Happy Together, KMJS also ruled among weekend programs and during its timeslot in Total Philippines, posting 14.2 percent people rating and 66.8 percent people audience share for the same period.
At the 2022 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards (NYF), the show once again made the country proud after winning the bronze medal for the “Bestida ni Ranelyn [Ranelyn’s Dress]” segment in the Documentary: Health/medical Information category.
Meanwhile, Fernando Tarriela Valderrama was given the Gold President’s Honor Roll Award in May 2022 for Outstanding Academic Excellence.
Conferred by the President’s Education Awards Program in the United States, this award is the highest recognition given to graduating elementary, middle and high-school students for their outstanding efforts to meet challenging standards of excellence.
Valderrama, an incoming ninth grader at Harvest Christian Academy in Guam, is part of the school’s National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) which encourages high academics along with strong character and leadership. His extra-curricular activities also include taking Orchestral classes and being part of the Running Club/cross Country. Outside of school, Valderrama is a grey and white belter in jiu-jitsu and goes to Crossfit.
His parents are Tom and Tricia Valderrama. His maternal grandmother is Philippine National Bank’s first chairman Flor Gozon Tarriela, sister of GMA Network chairman and CEO Felipe L. Gozon.