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DWAM
DWAM (99.1 FM), broadcasting as 99.1 Spirit FM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radyo Bayanihan System, the media arm of the Archdiocese of Lipa. The station's studio is located at the 2nd floor, St. Francis de Sales Broadcast Center, 7 C. Tirona St., Batangas City; and its transmitter facilities are located at Brgy. Sto. Domingo, Batangas City. Since March 19, 2018, the station has also been available across the country via satellite through its select program grids being simulcast on CMN Radio, replacing the latter's in-house music automation. History DWAM-FM was formally launched on May 8, 1999 at its inaugural facilities at Paharang West, Batangas City as an all-disco station under inaugural station manager Fr. Mike Samaniego and its first on-air talent, Frederick Joseph Ona (a.k.a. DJ Joseph), who previously started out in the Lucena City radio market and had stints in Sydney, Australia, mostly targeting the Filipino community. Months after, Fr. Nonie Dolor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DWAL
DWAL (95.9 FM), broadcasting as 95.9 Radyo Totoo, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radyo Bayanihan System, the media arm of the Archdiocese of Lipa. The station's studio is located at the 2nd floor, St. Francis de Sales Broadcast Center, 7 C. Tirona St., Batangas City; and its transmitter facilities are located at Brgy. Sto. Domingo, Batangas City. It is known as the ''Evangelization Radio'', which later on evolved into ''News and Evangelization Radio''; thus, becoming the first news and talk FM station owned and operated by the Catholic church. History 1969-2001: AM era DWAL-FM was inaugurated in 1969 as DWAM-AM on 1080 kHz. It was initially located along Calero Road. However, with the declaration of Martial Law on September 21, 1972, under Ferdinand Marcos, the station was closed under strict censorship imposed under Proclamation No. 1081. After complying with the papers needed for resumption of broadcasts, DWAM-AM returned on air by October that same year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CMN Radio
CMN Radio is the flagship satellite radio station owned by the Catholic Media Network in the Philippines. Its studios are located in San Juan, Metro Manila and operates 19 hours daily on Cignal Channel 311 and via livestreaming on the CMN website. Network synopsis CMN Radio pipes in a cumulative 9 hours of news content to its member-stations via its syndicated 90-minute national morning newscast ''CMN Pilipinas'' on weekdays and its Saturday health show ''Sagip Buhay''. Outside its news hours, the content is satellite-exclusive, with the station serving as the Philippine relay broadcaster of EWTN Global Catholic Radio, occupying the midday and off-peak hours. Automated musical programming, and simulcasts of 99.1 Spirit FM Batangas's select program grids since March 19, 2018, is scheduled on the weekdays in between EWTN blocks and closedown, and weekends. Unlike other national radio networks, programming distributed to stations outside its regular news service is done on specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batangas City
Batangas City, officially the City of Batangas ( fil, Lungsod ng Batangas), is a 1st class component city and capital of the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 351,437 people. Batangas City is classified as one of the fastest urbanizing cities of the Philippines, and is known as the "Industrial Port City of Calabarzon". It is home to the Batangas International Port, one of the busiest passenger and container terminals in the Philippines. It also hosts one of the largest oil refineries in the country, three natural gas power plants, and several other major industries. In addition, the city also serves as the educational, industrial and the transportation center of the province. History Foreign rule The first Spanish missionaries arrived in Batangas City in 1572 due to group migration. Finally, in 1581, Spanish authorities governing the Philippines created a ''pueblo'' in the area which included the hill (now ''Hilltop'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Media Network
Catholic Media Network, also known as CMN, is a Catholic radio network in the Philippines. CMN serves as the broadcasting arm of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, the governing body of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. History CMN was previously known as Philippine Federation of Catholic Broadcasters (PFCB). The radio network was owned and operated by different Catholic broadcast media corporations. In 1997, the name was changed to the Catholic Media Network to suit the network's mission and also the new slogan "The Spirit of The Philippines". In October 2017, the House of Representatives threatened not to renew the 25-year franchise of the CBCP's broadcast radio operations (including some of the CMN member stations), citing criticism on the Duterte administration over war on drugs. However, CMN's de facto flagship station DZRV, was not part of it as it is operated by CBCP's affiliate Global Broadcasting System, which its franchise was already re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kantar Media
Kantar Group is a data analytics and brand consulting company, based in London, England. It was founded in 1992, and has approximately 30,000 employees in 100 countries working in various research disciplines, including social media monitoring, advertising effectiveness, consumer and shopper behaviour, and public opinion. Kantar has been majority owned by Bain Capital Private Equity since July 2019, when WPP sold a 60% stake of the company for $3.1 billion, at a valuation of $4.0 billion. History Acquisitions British Market Research Bureau Limited – BMRB, which was established in 1933, London, were acquired by the group in 2009 and merged into Kantar Public in 2016. The subsidiary TGI – Target Group Index of BMRB, which was established in 1969, was split and merged into the Kantar Media brand in 2009. On 24 October 2018 it was announced that the WPP board approved the plans to sell Kantar Group. In Dec 2019, Eric Salama stepped down as the CEO of Kantar Group. Eric Sala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lipa, Batangas
Lipa (), officially the City of Lipa ( fil, Lungsod ng Lipa), is a 1st class component city in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 372,931 people. It is the first city charter in the province and one of five cities in Batangas alongside Batangas City, Calaca, Santo Tomas, and Tanauan. It is located south of Manila and is the most populous city of Batangas. The Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR) and South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) provide access to Batangas City and Metro Manila. Etymology Batangueños from the early years had their settlement in Bombon Lake and began dispersing to other places when the volcano erupted. While a group of people was moving to another settlement area, the image of St. Sebastian was stolen from them and later on was found on a tree called "lipa." People believed that the patron saint wished to name that place "Lipa" . History The primal composition in the southeastern region of Bombon La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In The Philippines
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines has resulted in, as of , reported cases, resulting in reported deaths, the fifth-highest in Southeast Asia, behind Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The first case in the Philippines was identified on January 30, 2020, and involved a 38-year-old Chinese woman who was confined at San Lazaro Hospital in Metro Manila. On February 1, 2020, a posthumous test result from a 44-year-old Chinese man turned out positive for the virus, making the Philippines the first country outside China to record a confirmed death from the disease. After over a month without recording any cases, the Philippines confirmed its first local transmission on March 7, 2020. Since then, the virus has spread to the country's 81 provinces. National and local governments have been imposing community quarantines since March 15, 2020, as a measure to limit the spread of the virus. These include the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) that was implem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DWEY
DWEY (104.7 FM broadcasting, FM), broadcasting as 104.7 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned and operated by Brigada Mass Media Corporation through its licensee Baycomms Broadcasting Corporation. It serves as the Luzon flagship station of Brigada News FM. The station's main broadcast studio, news center and marketing offices are located at the 5th Floor Jacinta Building 2, #1840 EDSA, Brgy. Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati, with a hybrid provincial satellite studio located at the 2nd floor, Brigada Broadcast Complex and Pharmacy, Eva Valenton Building, Evangelista St., Brgy. 23, Batangas City, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Talumpok East, Mt. Banoy, Batangas City. History 1998-2013: Bay Radio It was formerly known as Bay Radio 104.7, the second FM radio station in Batangas, owned by Baycomms Broadcasting Corporation, launched in 1998, operating everyday from 4:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight. One of the notable activities of the station was its Hataw sa Tag-Araw done every Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigada Mass Media Corporation
Brigada Mass Media Corporation (BMMC) is a newspaper company and media network in the Philippines. It is the first-ever local Tri-media organization to have emerged from the Soccsksargen area as a national network with its array of Brigada News FM stations. BMMC is part of Brigada Group of Companies of entrepreneur Elmer Catulpos which also maintains three newspaper editions in Mindanao, one TV station, distribution of herbal food supplements, medicines, cosmetics and engine care products, a drug pharmacy, a garden resort and two private security agencies. Its main Brigada Complex is located at NLSA Road, San Isidro, General Santos City, Philippines while its National Broadcast Center is located at the 5th floor, Jacinta Building II, EDSA, Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati. History Development It all started with the publication of ''Brigada News Philippines'', first named as ''Brigada Tolendoy News and Tips'', an internet café-based, one-color, 6-page and comic-sized tabloid on Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DZGV
DZGV (99.9 FM), broadcasting as GV 99.9 or GV Southern Luzon, is a music radio station owned and operated by GV Radios Network Corporation, a subsidiary of Apollo Broadcast Investors. The station's studio and transmitter are located at #53 Evangelista St., Batangas City, Philippines. It operates daily from 4:00 AM to 12:00 MN. GV holds the distinction as the first and the most influential FM station in the province of Batangas. GVFM used to carry the Drive Radio brand from 2010 to 2017. The slogan of this radio is "Your Good Vibes!" GV 99.9 formerly had a sister station, DWEG-FM, branded on air as Smile 89.5 that first signed on in 2010 to serve the extreme northern Batangas and western Laguna market. It carried a ''masa'' format until March 2018, when it was converted into a relay A relay Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucena, Philippines
Lucena, officially the City of Lucena ( fil, Lungsod ng Lucena), is a 1st class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Calabarzon region of the Philippines. It is the capital city of the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Quezon Province, Quezon where it is geographically situated but, in terms of government and administration, the city is politically independent from the province. For statistical and geographical purposes, Lucena is grouped with the province of Quezon Province, Quezon. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 278,924 people. History Early history In the 1570s, Captain Juan de Salcedo first explored what was then Kalilayan, later founded as a province in 1591. The Order of Friars Minor, Franciscan priests Juan de Plasencia and Diego de Oropesa between 1580 and 1583 founded its town, also named Tayabas. Tayabas was organized by the Spaniards through the Franciscan missionaries and Lucena was just one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
