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May 1, 2020-April 1, 2021[]
in April 4, 2020, amidst COVID-19, Viva (owner of PBO, K Movies Pinoy, TMC and Viva TV) inks partnership with EXPO to launch philippine version of popular Taugaranese channel, EXPO, unlike Taugaran feed, EXPO Philippines airs shows in English (at 6am-12pm and 6pm-12am) and Tagalog (at 12pm-6pm and 12am-6am).
in March 17, 2021, Viva terminated partnership with EXPO beginning April 1, 2021, therefore Philippine version of EXPO to be absorbed to Taugaranese version.
EXPO Philippines to cease broadcast on April 1, 2021 at 7am, its last program before changing to Taugaranese feed was "Cyborg Kuro-chan".
on 6:36am at March 31, 2021, while broadcasting Cyborg Kuro-chan, EXPO Philippines screen bug was changed to white color to prepare for shutdown.
on April 1, 2021 at exactly 6:54am, the last program was finished and began airing loop of PBO, K Movies Pinoy and Viva TV promos and at exactly 6:59am, last EXPO Philippines ident (except its black and white and after EXPO logo appears, the text "Thank you and we will join unified version of EXPO, long live separated 2 feeds!" appears) plays and after that ident, several of ACS ads plays and after Pride Sakura commercial, the blank screen appears and after 23 seconds, EXPO Philippines screen bug disappears and after 1 minute, EXPO Philippines switched its feed to Taugaranese feed.
in April 5, 2021, Viva gave up distributing EXPO to Philippine cable providers, while Omnicontent began to distribute EXPO to Philippine cable providers starting May 1, causing some cable subscribers (mainly SkyCable (confirmed by their website on their plan change (HBO HD now on more plans, removal of Fight Sports HD, EXPO and Miao Mi and end of broadcast of K Movies Pinoy and RED by HBO)), Buenavision, Zafra Cable, Cebu Cable and Parasat) may lose access to EXPO on May 1, 2021 (the same date of K Movies Pinoy end broadcast date), however EXPO's deal with Viva for EXPO programs (except all EXPO Originals series (which directly streams on Netflix, iWant TFC (Tagalog dub only) and WeTV) and all acquired programs that premiered on EXPO (from August 4, 2021 onwards)) rights to stream on VivaMax (in English and Tagalog) are unaffected and will expire on February 15, 2022 (due to EXPO's 9 year streaming deal with Netflix (Taugaran and Philippines) to stream all programs that airs on EXPO Taugaran, which started on April 1, 2021 (without Coming Soon, Search and New & Popular (even Worth The Wait, Coming Next Week and Coming This Week) notice).