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Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) Type Public (Government) Industry Broadcast radio network Predecessor Bureau of Broadcasts (1972-1986) Founded May 1, 1933 Headquarters Quezon City, Philippines Key people Jose Isabelo
John ManaliliRevenue Unknown Net income Unknown Employees 11,964 Website www.pbs.gov.ph Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a radio network in the Philippines. It is owned by the Philippine government.
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History
Soon after the first World War in 1933, on May 8, 1933, the U.S. government established and operated radio station DZFM (then KZFM) in the Philippines on frequency 710 kHz with a power of 10,000 watts through the United States Information Service. In September 1946, two months after the Philippines became an independent country from the U.S.A., KZFM was turned over to the Philippine government. With the transfer was born the Philippine Broadcasting Service, PBS the second broadcasting organization after Manila Broadcasting Company.
The station was first operated by the Department of Foreign Affairs until it was transferred to the Radio Broadcasting Board (RBB) which was created by President Manuel Quezon on September 3, 1937. Meanwhile in the same year, an international telecommunications conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, reassigned the letter "D" to replace the former "K" as the initial call letter for all radio stations in the Philippines. In January 1942, the RBB was abolished to give way to the establishment of the Philippine Information Council (PIC) which then assumed the function of the RBB, including the operation of DZFM. In turn, the PIC was abolished on July 1, 1952, and since then, until the creation of the Department of Public Information in 1959, DZFM and the Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) had been operated under the Office of the President.
Over the years hence, the PBS had acquired 13 more radio stations, one TV station which it time-shared with two other organizations, and changed its name to Bureau of Broadcast Services. At the same time that the BB was blazing a broadcasting trail now known as "network broadcasting", another government organization was building up its broadcast capability to rival, or in some instances, to complement, that of the BB. The National Media Production Center, NMPC, had acquired the facilities of the Voice of America in Malolos, Bulacan in 1965 and steadily brought the old complex up to standards by a steady overhaul, fine-tuning, and outright replacement of outmoded equipment and machines. The NMPC operated the Voice of the Philippines, VOP, on both medium wave-918 kHz and shortwave 9.810 mHz transmissions. In 1975, the NMPC obtained DWIM-FM. With this new station and some provincial stations that came under its wings earlier, the NMPC was a network and effectively covered a wide range of the Philippine listenership.
Public broadcasting in the Philippines was thus represented by the BB and the NMPC and catered to the educational and cultural needs of its audiences while endeavoring to keep it entertained with fare from indigenous material. Public service features were the keystone of its programs.
The BB and the NMPC were brought under one administrative roof in 1980 when the Office of Media Affairs was created to provide a loose union for both networks within the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center on Broadcast Drive in Quezon City. It was not an ideal situation, to say the least, since, as there had been no clear guidelines on the proper implementation of their respective operational strategies, the BB and the NMPC often squabbled, to the detriment of public broadcasting goals.
After the EDSA Revolution, the Office of Media Affairs was abolished, followed by the NMPC, and finally, the BB. In their stead was a plan, a vision, for one, single government broadcasting organization that would not be an echo device for the government, or much less, for any one man, but would instead dedicate itself to the service of the people through honest, balanced, and meaningful broadcasting.
That lay the blueprints and groundwork of the Bureau of Broadcast Services.
During Aquino administration, PBS transferred its office from ABS-CBN complex to PIA Building in Visayas Avenue.
Radyo ng Bayan's platform
Radio ng Bayan is situated at 738 kHz on the AM band with a power of 50 kW under the Bureau of Broadcast Services (BBS) or Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS), Office of the Press Secretary. As the government's flagship radio station it serves as a medium of development communication, a conduit between the government and the people, aiming to mobilize all sectors of society towards development and nationalism. Live government news is aired here.
PBS Stations
FM Stations
Branding Call-Sign Frequency Power (kW) Location 104.3 Business Radio DWBR 104.3 MHz 25 kW Metro Manila 89.5 Bay FM DWSB 89.5 MHz 10 kW Subic Radyo ng Bayan Jagna DYJP 100.1 500 watts Jagna, Bohol DWCN 96.9 DWCN 96.9 MHz 5 kW Daet, Camarines Norte 105.5 Upi for Peace DXUP 105.5 MHz 300 W Upi, Maguindanao Radyo ng Bayan Agoo DZAG 97.1 MHz 5kW Agoo, La Union AM Stations
Branding Call-Sign Frequency Power (kW) Location Radyo ng Bayan DZRB 738 kHz 50 kW Metro Manila Sports and Youth Radio DWSY 918 kHz 50 kW Metro Manila Radyo Magasin* DZRM 1278 kHz 10 kW Metro Manila Radyo ng Bayan Laoag DWFB 954 kHz 10 kW Laoag Radyo ng Bayan Dagupan DZMQ 576 kHz 10 kW Dagupan Radyo ng Bayan Baguio DZEQ 999 kHz 5 kW Baguio Radyo ng Bayan Batanes DWBT 1134 kHz 1 kW Basco, Batanes Radyo ng Bayan Tuguegarao DWPE 729 kHz 10 kW Tuguegarao Radyo ng Bayan Lucena DWLC 1017 kHz 10 kW Lucena Radyo ng Bayan Palawan DWRM 567 kHz 10 kW Puerto Princesa Radyo ng Bayan Naga DWRP 549 kHz 10 kW Naga Radyo ng Bayan Legaspi DZBU 621 kHz 5 kW Legaspi Radyo ng Bayan Iloilo DYLL 585 kHz 1 kW Iloilo Radyo ng Bayan Cebu DYMR 576 kHz 10 kW Cebu Radyo ng Bayan Sogod DYSL 1359 kHz 1 kW Sogod, Southern Leyte Radyo ng Bayan Tacloban DYMP 1566 kHz 1 kW Tacloban Radyo ng Bayan Calbayog DYOG 882 kHz 10 kW Calbayog Radyo ng Bayan Borongan DYES 657 kHz 5 kW Borongan, Eastern Samar Radyo ng Bayan Zamboanga DXMR 1170 kHz 10 kW Zamboanga Radyo ng Bayan Cagayan de Oro DXIM 936 kHz 10 kW Cagayan De Oro Radyo ng Bayan Davao DXRP 675 kHz 10 kW Davao Radyo ng Bayan Butuan DXBN 792 kHz 10 kW Butuan Radyo ng Bayan Tandag DXJS 837 kHz 5 kW Tandag, Surigao del Sur Radyo ng Bayan Marawi DXSO 774 kHz 10 kW Marawi Radyo ng Bayan Jolo DXSM 1224 kHz 1 kW Jolo, Sulu Radyo ng Bayan Tangub DXJT 954 kHz 1 kW Tangub - Radyo Magasin (DZRM), Himpilan ng Tabuk (DZRK), Radyo Agoo (DZAG), Radyo Borong (DYES), Radyo Gingoog (DXRG) & Radyo ng Tawian (DXPT) are owned by Magasin Broadcasting Network.
Short-wave Stations (Radyo Pilipinas)
Main article: Radyo PilipinasSee also
References
External links
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