iFM 93.9 is DWKC FM, the flagship FM radio station of Radio Mindanao Network.
The iFM monicker started in 2002, however, the first airing of the station dates back to 1978. Back then it was known as 93.9 WKC a pop music leaning station, which targeted the C-D-E market. Among its famous personalities back in the day was Baby Michael, whom we know now as Mike Enriquez on GMA 7’s 24 Oras.
The C-D-E format of the station lasted until November of 1999. It then flipped to a Top 40 programming catering to high end audience. 939 KCFM became the new brand and incorporated the slogan “Live It Up”.
ABS-CBN flagship FM station DWRR 101.9, branded as Tambayan 101.9 (“Hangout 101.9”) rated the highest in the afternoon block according to the latest Nielsen RAM or Radio Audience Measurement.
The station scored 23.9% of audience share from 12 noon to 6 pm.
Tambayan also faired well outside its market, achieving 25.9% audience share. For ratings for the entire day, DWRR recorded a 22.10 audience share.
Among the most listened to programs on Tambayan are Dear Jasmin (11am to 1pm), Usapang Tambayan with DJ Charlie (1-3pm), and Raki and Carlo Santino at (3-6pm).
The station have also recently received awards like the Catholic Mass Media Award (CMMA) Best Drama for Dear Jasmin, the KBP Golden Dove Award Best DJ for DJ Martin D and Best Variety Radio Program for Tambayan Top 10.
Love Radio 90.7 and Yes FM 101.1 continue to dominate the Metro Manila airwaves not just on the morning block but the entire day.
The midnight programs of DJ Chacha on Tambayan 101.9 and Wild Confessions with DJ Papa Jack of 90.7 Love Radio are on the spotlight as one Bishop in Sorsogon Arturo Bastes calls for the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas to monitor content.
DJ Chacha and DJ Papa Jack are among the most popular disc jockeys in Manila, both of whom are handling radio programs that offer advice for radio listeners who call in sharing more often than not their failed or ailing love stories.
DYLS FM is now the number one station in Metro Cebu for the last quarter of 2011 according to a recent radio survey.
My Only Radio (MOR) 97.1 DYLS FM 97.1 MHz Cebu City is the FM station of ABS-CBN in Cebu City.
DYLS FM MOR is among the fourteen My Only Radio FM radio stations in the country.
The station’s studio is situated at ABS-CBN Complex, North Road Jagobiao, Cebu City and the transmitter is located at Mt. Busay Hills Barangay Babag, Cebu City Philippines.
MOR 97.1 Cebu airs hits that are purely OPM hits and Pop Music.
Let’s show our support for MOR 97.1 Lupig Sila the number 1 station in Cebu, add MOR on Facebook at facebook.com/morcebulupigsila.
Updated: Papa Dan is no longer on the air at Barangay LS. Guess, with all the success, happiness is really all about pursuing the desires of your heart.
In this case, Papa Dan had to resign to focus more on building his relationship with his girlfriend and hopefully build a family.
Remember, Delamar resigned from RX 93.1 for family reasons.
The truth is radio is fulfilling but it is not rewarding, career-wise, the industry is really small, the potential of growth is slim. You have to entertain other areas of making a living.
Love and life advice programs on the radio are classic and yet remain to be an on air favorite among Pinoy listeners. Match making programs are also a hit. Barangay LS 97.1 takes on a different approach with their program Wanted Sweetheart.
DJ Papa Dan
DJ Papa Dan’s Wanted Sweetheart, which airs 9pm-12mn Mondays to Fridays, gives listeners an different take of matchmaking on air. The program brings an entertaining and oftentimes hilarious perspective on Pinoy courtship.
Just as it hit the airwaves from a makeshift studio in Manila in 1955, the country’s first pop music station continues to go on-air from end to end covering OPM, pop, disco, rock, ballads and more plus all-but-slapstick humor, sought-after advice on matters of the heart, infotainment and other listening pleasures.
“Given the spike LS charted on the ratings board, we foresee a stronger station performance that will cater and extend to all people across age groups and eco-classes,” said Barangay LS Program Director Glenn Allona.
Enjoy ‘crazy fun’ programs as Barangay LS delivers ‘non-stop na tugtugan, non-stop pa sa tawanan’ 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Papa Jepoy, Papa Bodjie, and Mama Cy’s Potpot and Friends, Mondays to Fridays 5am-8am and Saturdays 5am-7am, brings fun and explosive on-air interaction with the listeners via phone calls and text messages along with all-hit music sweeps peppered in between.
Papa Dudut, Ate Liza and Chikotita’s Balita Sa Barangay, Mondays to Fridays 8am-11am and Saturdays 7am-9am, always has human interest stories and showbiz news. Popular mellow and upbeat songs are staples in the line-up.
Papa Tolits, Mama Belle, and Papa Baldo’s Kuwentong Barangay, Monday to Fridays 11am-1pm, offers wit and humor, skits, spoofs and gags derived from jokes sent thru text messaging.
Meanwhile, Talk to Papa with Papa Kiko and Papa Obet, Mondays to Fridays 1pm-3pm and Saturdays 12nn-3pm, is the all-time go-to talk program of problem-stricken pals. It plays an instant friend to anyone who needs a shoulder to cry on or somebody to have a light-hearted conversation with.
Three Play, Mondays to Saturdays 3pm-9pm, with Papa Tolits, Mama Belle and Papa Baldo, delivers consecutive airplay of genre’-specific songs ranging from Pinoy rock, rap, hiphop, R&B and K-pop.
Barangay Love Stories, Barangay Love Songs and The Big 10 during weekends and all the weekday fares can be heard over Mega Manila’s music and entertainment hub on FM, Barangay LS 97.1.
For the second run of its campaign, tween actor Jake Vargas appears on the station’s TV commercial as the personification of the fun and fresh sound of Barangay LS. Along with Bea Binene, Kylie Padilla, Sarah Lahbati, Ken Chan and Boobai , Jake’s endearing personality and mass appeal reinforce the station’s affinity with its current band of listeners as well as that of the entire market.
Sari-Sari Sounds.com is a brand new online radio station that plays nothing but Original Pilipino Music, round the clock, all week, raw, edgy tunes caught only at your favorite gigs.
From Pinoy Rock to Flip-Hop and everything in between, crossing genres, and generations.
Sari-Saring sariling atin all up in your face.
The new online radio station also brings back the popular Bigkas Pilipinas radio show that was first aired on Jam 88.3.
Gunmen shot dead the host of a political radio show in the Philippines, police said (AFP/Illustration, ROMEO GACAD)
MANILA — Gunmen shot dead the host of a political radio show in the Philippines, police said on Tuesday, the latest journalist to be killed in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for reporters.
Broadcaster Niel Jimena, 42, was riding his motorcycle in the central island of Negros on Monday when two men on another motorcycle shot him five times, said local police chief Leonardo Cobing.
“He noticed he was being followed, he tried to make a U-turn (to escape) but the two men continued to follow him until… one of them opened fire,” said Cobing.
The killing may be linked to Jimena’s twice-weekly show “Judge” on DYRI-RMN in Iloilo city on Negros where he regularly criticised the city mayor and other local officials, according to Cobing.
Nichols Field (now Villamor Airbase) – First Test Broadcast Originated Here
The First Radio Station in the Philippines
There is a debate on what exactly was the first radio station in the country. In 1924 an American established the first AM radio station KZKZ.
But an archive of radio broadcast histories revealed that in 1922, an American woman named Mrs. Redgrave made a test broadcast using a five-watt transmitter.
While little is known about Redgrave’s experiment, it is believed that the test broadcast made from Nichols field (now Villamor Airbase) could be the very first radio station in the Pearl of the Orient.
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