In early 2007, auditions were held at some selected schools in the metro and at the GMA Network Center for its line-up of kid correspondents. Those who passed the preliminary auditions were then exposed on-cam and trained through Q Channel 11's reality job search program "May Trabaho Ka!" (now called "Hired"). Nine hopefuls were chosen ("Renford, Aria, Ish, Romina, Mikee, Caleb, David, Nikki and Sam") from the said reality show. StarStruck Kids finalist Ella Guevara who also auditioned as Kids on Q reporter was also chosen. Together they compose the original line-up of Q reporters. Tonipet Gaba, more popularly known as Kuya Tonipet was assigned as the show's anchor, whose task is to give the introduction to the kid's reports.