Ben Tulfo

Bienvenido Teshiba Tulfo (born March 15, 1955), popularly known as Ben Tulfo, is a Filipino television and radio personality, entrepreneur, and production company executive.

Ben and his BITAG program have won numerous awards for their public service and investigative shows in different award-winning bodies.

He is primarily known for BITAG, a documentary-reality and investigative public service program that also won as the "Best Public Service Program" for many years.

He has also produced shows such as Pinoy US Cops, BITAG Live, and Kilos Pronto.

His siblings include Ramon Tulfo, Raffy Tulfo and Erwin Tulfo, who are all his fellow journalists, as well as Wanda Tulfo Teo.

In 1994, Ben was the brains behind the TV show Isumbong Mo Kay Tulfo and was aired on RPN-9.

Mon hosted the program but after its successful launch, Ben left the show.

Then in 1997, he launched Philippines Most Wanted (patterned closely to America's Most Wanted) on PTV-4 but later expanded from TV to radio (through DZXL (defunct)).

The program was hosted together with his brother, Raffy.

However, after a year of hosting Philippines Most Wanted, he left the program which in turn, leaving Raffy to go solo.

Ben later returned to the field of broadcast media in 2001.

His program, “Bahala si Tulfo” (Now BITAG Live) was later offered a mid-morning time slot by DZME.

He was later offered to be the Editor in Chief for Manila Standard, then he wrote his column for "Saksi Ngayon", a sister publication of Manila Standard.

While BST Tri-Media was conceived in 2002, he became a columnist for Philippine Star's Tagalog counterparts: "Pilipino Star Ngayon" and "Pang Masa".

According to Ben Tulfo, the concept of BITAG was conceived during a Maundy Thursday (March 28) vacation at the Plantation Bay in Mactan, Cebu, back in 2002, with the unique idea of a documentary reality (often shortened as “docu-reality”) show.

He then formed BST Tri-media Production (Now known as BITAG Media Unlimited Incorporated) to produce BITAG as a block timer.

Its official launch was on September 14, 2002, a date often mistaken by fans and former production staff to be its original “anniversary”.

The show was then aired on ABC Channel 5 (Now TV5).

BITAG focuses on ensnaring criminals and their modus operandi with elaborate documentation, surveillance and hidden cameras, often with coordination with the authorities.

They also feature drug raids in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and other law enforcement elements.

The show ran for 2 years on ABC5.

Ben was then offered a primetime slot together with a co-production contract by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC-13) back in 2004.

After signing the contract immediately, Bitag began airing on its first episode with IBC-13, and gained a large following in Philippine television.

For eight years, BITAG ran strong at IBC-13 and UNTV.

On July 4, 2005, UNTV Channel 37's Daniel Razon offered him to join UNTV and be one of their anchors.

He became one of the hosts of Pilipinas, Gising Ka Na Ba? which was immediately followed by Bahala si Tulfo from 9 AM to 10:30 AM after What's Up Doc?.

It was also simulcast at DZME.

Erwin later joined Ben at UNTV in 2006.

Bahala Si Tulfo was later renamed to Tulfo Brothers: Bahala si Ben at Erwin.

However, in June of the same year, Erwin left to host Isumbong Mo – Tulfo Brothers at RPN-9.

Ben went solo again and renamed the show back to its original title.

In 2011, TV5 offered Ben to co-anchor with his two other brothers for T3.

In addition, Ben offered TV5 his Pinoy US Cops to be shown at TV5's sister television station AksyonTV.

2013 was a rough year for TV5 as it faced ailing finances.

This does not stop him from staying as a talent-host for T3 together with Erwin and Raffy.

However, T3 officially folded up in April 2016.

This caused the brothers to part ways with separate commitments within the network.

As of 2017, he is still writing for these columns.

In June 2017, Ben and Erwin decided to cut ties with TV5.

He also pulled out BITAG Live and later moved to PTV-4.