Cebu’s only dance music station – Club Radio 93.1 is now streaming video on UStream.TV. You can tune in to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/club-radio-93-1-cebu-live
Club Radio 93.1 used to be Smash Radio 93.1 with rock and alternative format. Club Radio is also announcing its opening for a disc jockey position. Submit resume to work4cr931@yahoo.com. Radio interns are welcome.
In the Philippines, revival of foreign songs or songs recorded in the US mostly, is rampant. OPM Artist (Original Pilipino Music) Nonoy Zuniga, in an interview with ABS-CBN, appeals to local composers here to find ways to make royalty fees attractive so that recording companies will be encouraged to revive classic Filipino music.
It is estimated that 60 percent of the music produced locally now are remakes of foreign music, songs like “Too Much Love Will Kill You by Queen” revived by Jovit Baldovino.
In an effort to revive the local industry, the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas and Filipino Composers Development Cooperative (FILCOMDEC) joined to form ClickMusic.com.ph. ClickMusic’s business model works like iTunes, where music fans can buy songs individually, instead of an entire album.
Its website http://www.clickmusic.com.ph will be launched in September this year.
ClickMusic will also be launching the first KBP Pop Music Festival, with the aim of discovering new talents.
In the meantime, President Aquino pushes a directive that will strengthen mandatory airplay of OPM music on every radio station.
The KBP Code, under Music sections, item number 1, states that:
All stations shall actively promote the growth and development of Filipino music. Radio stations are encouraged to schedule OPM’s in accordance with existing provision of law and the KBP rules and regulations (4 OPM’s every clockhour).
Home Radio 97.9 reminds of a station in the US called Jack FM. Not to compare, but the imaging approach of the station works just the same as the Jack FM format. Jackie obviously is a rip off of Jack. The Jack FM format is we-play-what-you-want. Their imaging consists of a voice guy named Jack, who does all the station liners and talking. Home Radio originally was a no-DJ format, meaning there were no DJs talking, apart from the announcer whose name is Jackie.
Jackie’s personality is very much like Jack, happy go lucky, careless, witty, funny, and sometimes sarcastic. Not everyone loves her, in fact, I learned some listeners get irritated with Jackie, but apparently a lot of listeners love the Home Radio format. In Manila, Home Radio is an adult contemporary radio station. In Cebu, the franchise sports a CHR format.
Home Radio 97.9 is operated by Aliw Broadcasting Corporation.
Here is an aircheck of the station.
It’s easy to find radio anoraks these days. Blogs, social networks, Facebook, Twitter, but before these social platforms ever became a hit, there were web platforms called forums that held and still holds till today some of the most intelligent discussions in radio. Here are radio forum websites to visit.
JingleMad.com
BroadcastingWorld.net
RadioDaddy.com
RadioBanter.com
Radio-Info.com
DigitalSpy.co.uk
AudioMastersForum.net
Internet-Radio.org.uk
Finally, 103.5 Wow FM has taken off. The new format sports the slogan Love It or “Lahveet”. Mr. Fu, who is known for his catchphrases “May Ganun” (Such A Thing) and “Dahil Diyan, Close Na Tayo” (Because of that, we’re close), is said to have formulated the slogan.
Mr. Fu in an article by PEP revealed that he will be using his famous “May Ganun” liner but will come up with a new one. DJ Laila Chikadora is still sporting her signature stutter adlib “La-la-la-la” in the way she beams “Ah-lalalalalahveet!”, with tongue stuck out.
After 15 years, and 4 format flips, 103.5 gets another facelift, this time it’s nose diving as a Hot AC “pang-masa” brand – “Wow FM”. Frontlining the new format is Mr. Fu of Energy FM and Laila Chikadora of Tambayan 101.9. This is The Radio Partner, Inc’s first radio format targeting the C-D-E market.
When it launches on August 23, it will be Metro Manila’s 8th “masa” radio station. Listener’s response, especially those from avid Max FM followers, is diverse. There are some that don’t like reformat since it will only add to the ‘over saturation’ of masa stations in MM. Currently there are 24 commercial stations operating in the Metro, 7 of them are masa stations.
There are also those who are highly anticipating the launch. With Mr. Fu and Laila Chikadora, it will be a promising station to make. And of course, no one could be more excited than the owner. Masa stations undoubtedly are big selling formats. I humbly believe TRPI also chose 103.5 to flip format strategically. It will increase the cluster of masa stations since it is neighbor to other barriotic stations – Yes FM 101.1, Tambayan 101.9, and 102.7 Star FM.
The Wow FM brand isn’t so exciting. In the provinces, there are stations that carry “Wow” in their monickers, like RGMA’s “Wow Nindota Ah” in Davao City and Iligan City. Wow FM is a good brand, though, to compete with established names like Love Radio and Energy FM.
Not all, format flips are successful. It takes a good blend of music, a slate of talented, out of whack, original, funny, tolerable on air personalities, top notch production, imaging and programming, and of course, ratings, to pull of a successful masa station.
Good luck to Wow FM. May the listeners be Wowed.
103.5 Max FM Scoped Aircheck June 6, 2010
Wow FM 103.5 Lahveet is online. Visit their website here
Just barely weeks after its launch, The Edge 95.9 became an instant hit in the bay area. The station is the first Top 40 FM radio since years. We learned from Iliganons that after Bay Radio and Rocky 98.3 closed shop years ago, there has not been any English-format stations in the city. It seemed like Iligan City was deprived of the pop songs until The Edge launched this year with the leadership of Iligan City’s radio icon Bro Michell.
The Edge 95.9 – my iPod Radio, plays Top 40 songs mixed with pop recurrents. In fact, this station was somehow formatted like the popular Jack FM in the US. But with a more youthful appeal.
Here are some feedbacks The Edge listeners:
Well Finally, They put an English Fm Station in Iligan, If you could see the list there like what you wrote the FM Stations in Iligan like 90.1 Wow Fm, I Fm 102.3, 103.1 Wild Fm, Yes Fm 105.5 and 107.1 Love Radio, Their Format is all Pang-Masa Radio Stations, Good thing they put an English Fm Station in Iligan so we won’t have the oversaturated format of Pang-Masa Fm Radio Stations in the Philippines that we have now — Rafael
hi peeps! we stayed here for almost 2 years,with that span of time i don’t listen to fm stations until such time edge 95.9 fm existed..thanks it’s no more boring days for me and my family..thank GOD ,you don’t play korean songs or the like..keep up the good work.i’m your avid fan,count me in — Kirk
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DYR-TFM 99.5 opens the month of August with a good news.
GMA recently announced that its FM branch in Cebu has bested DYLS FM and DYXL, both of which were former number 1 stations.
This according to a recent survey. DYLS FM is ABS-CBN’s FM station in Cebu.
And DYLS FM is RMN’s FM branch. DYR-TFM 99.5 is branded as 99.5 Nindota Ah and has on the air since November of 1983.
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Campus Radio 107.1 is DYEN FM, the regional FM radio branch of GMA Network. I tuned in to this station once via Ustream, I thought it was fun to listen to the DJs blabbing on their native language – “Ilonggo”. I also understand that Bacolod speaks Cebuano. But the station mixes in Tagalog on their adlibs occasionally. Overall, the station is typical of a masa format, but they do play a good variety of music. From oldies, recurrents to new ones.
Listen live at http://107campusradiobacolod.blogspot.com/
Here is a scoped aircheck of Campus Radio 107.1 Ayos Bacolod.
Rick Dees WT40 returns to Y101 FM, DYIO FM, Cebu City, Philippines. Y101 is the market’s leading Top 40 station and the return of the Weekly Top 40 after about a five year hiatus will yet again strengthen the station’s lead in the province. The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 is set to compete with American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest which airs in the competing Killerbee FM network.
Listen to a scoped aircheck on July 26, 2010 showcasing DJ Jiggy Junior
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