Banat News is the top-selling Visayan-dialect tabloid in Cebu and in the Visayas region. A sister publication of The Freeman, Banat News is the first tabloid to be published in the Visayan language, a dialect spoken in Cebu and other parts of the Philippines' Visayan region. Banat News popularized the entertainment section through its highly popular Hugyaw section, the leading source of entertainment news in Cebu.