Saksi theme: "Energy" Composed and Arranged by Craig Palmer, published by Network Production Music Publishing (October 2, 1995 - July 30, 1999)

The newscast is anchored by Mike Enriquez, Mel Tiangco, Karen Davila from 1995 to 1998 and Jay Sonza, Tiangco and Davila from 1998 to 1999. It is aired from Mondays to Fridays at 5:45--6pm (October 2, 1995 - June 28, 1996), 5:30--6pm (July 1, 1996 - May 28, 1998) and 6--6:30pm (June 1, 1998 - July 30, 1999) and simulcasted on DZBB Radyo Bisig-Bayan 594.

Saksi in Filipino from the Eyewitness News branding by WABC-TV in New York, originally entitled Saksi: GMA Headline Balita, as a 15-minute early evening weekday newscast. It was then anchored by Mike Enriquez (then known as "Mr. Saksi") and Karen Davila. Saksi became popular in such a short time, that people were using the word as a catchphrase, complete with the pointed forefinger like the program's news anchors. In the early years of the newscast, the anchors, especially Enriquez, popularized the word "pasok" (come in) in introducing reporters (who included Jessica Soho, Arnold Clavio, Mao dela Cruz and Susan Enriquez, among others). This style of introducing reporters was also previously used in GMA's other regional news programs patterned after "Saksi" like Balitang Bisdak (Cebu), Testigo (Davao) and Ratsada (Iloilo).

Mel Tiangco joined Enriquez and Davila in 1996, after the former's transfer from ABS-CBN when she suspended from doing a TV commercial. Economist Solita "Winnie" Monsod also joined the newscast with her own opinion segment, "Mareng Winnie" (which became a moniker by which she has been since known for). Other special segments, such as Huling Hirit (light human-interest stories to cap the newscast, reported by Kara David) and S na S (Showbiz sa Saksi) (a showbiz segment with Lyn Ching then she anchored with Enriquez, Davila and Tiangco) were also added to the news program as its running time was expanded to 30 minutes.

Saksi was started the live news coverage included the Typhoon Mameng and Rosing in October 1995, Ozone Disco Tragedy in March 1996, the Everest disaster in May 1996, The Atlanta Summer Olympics highlights, Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia and Dehiwala train bombing in Colombo in July 1996, the visit of Mexico's number 1 actress-singer Thalia in August 1996, the 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision in India, Humberto Vidal Explosion in Puerto Rico, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash in Comoros and the APEC summit in Subic, Zambales in November 1996, Michael Jackson's Philippine visit in December 1996, Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria in April 1997, the Hong Kong handover from United Kingdom to China on June 25-July 1, 1997, Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria, the death and memorial service of Princess Diana in August 1997, the rallies against the Ramos administration's plans for Charter Change, Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crash in Indonesia in September 1997, the 100th Anniversary of Independence of the Philippines from Spain or the Philippine Centennial Celebration on June 12, 1998, the Philippine National Elections in May 1998, the Nationwide and Worldwide Midnight Millennium Celebrations on December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, The Sydney Summer Olympics highlights in September 2000, 2000 government war with Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the 2000 President Estrada Impeachment Trial in December 2000 to January 2001 and the second EDSA People Power Revolution in January 2001.

In 1998, Jay Sonza replaced Enriquez while he appointed as an anchor of GMA Network News with Vicky Morales who and the news team switched to Taglish then Filipino. Davila, on the other hand, became a co-host of Extra-Extra, a magazine program featuring different human-interest and entertainment stories (which also served as pre-programming to Saksi). Sonza, Tiangco's co-host on Partners Mel and Jay, then joined the newscast as co-anchor, thus Saksi and Partners Mel and Jay are the news programs exclusive to them. The original subtitle, GMA Headline Balita, was also dropped since then.

Saksi Theme (1995-1999)

GMA Network News theme: "Raw Power" composed by Craig Palmer, featuring the Network Music Ensemble (July 7, 1997 - July 30, 1999)

In 1997, the newscast was given a new set, new theme music, and a sleeker opening ident and graphics package. In the opening ident, Kaimo gave a sneak peek of the night's headlines with clips from the specific news items, after which, Mike Enriquez (and later, GMA continuity announcer Al Torres) provided the voice-over, "From the award-winning GMA News and Public Affairs team, this is GMA Network News..." to introduce the newscast and its anchorpersons. Rachel del Mar became the program's new weather girl, who would always end the segment (then retitled "GMA Weather Center") with her signature close, "This is Rachel del Mar, your all-weather friend." which became "Ito po si Rachel del Mar, ang iyong all-weather friend." when the newscast switched to Filipino to end the weather forecast.

However, Kaimo and Hontiveros eventually left the newscast as well. The former would move to ABS-CBN (to host The Correspondents and the Studio 23 newscast News Central), while the latter ran for party-list representative in Congress. Morales became sole anchor of the newscast while it prepared for a reformat, while the opening voice-over was eventually dropped from the opening ident.

In 1998, Saksi anchor Enriquez joined Morales as co-anchor. It became the first Filipino newscast to do stand-up news delivery (inspired by US TV network newscasts). It also made a gradual shift in the language it used, first to "Taglish" (a mixture of Tagalog and English) and eventually, Filipino after a few months. The newscast became the first late-night news program in Filipino on Philippine television. This is also the first news program where the anchors are standing up, Due to this, GMA Network News ratings became higher than its rival English-language newscasts, The Big News of ABC, NewsWatch of Radio Philippines Network and The World Tonight of ABS-CBN.

Enriquez used his signature close, "Thank you for trusting GMA", which became "Marami pong salamat sa inyong pagtitiwala sa GMA" (when the newscast switched to Filipino) to end the newscast.

The weekend edition also switched to news delivery in Filipino at the same time the weekday edition did. "GMA Network News" continued to be the weekend newscast's title until 2002, even as the weekday edition gave way to "Frontpage" in 1999.

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