DXVM (99.1 FM), broadcasting as 99.1 iFM, is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

owned and operated by the

Radio Mindanao Network Radio Mindanao Network, Inc. (RMN), d.b.a. RMN Networks or RMN Network, is a Filipino media company based in Makati, Philippines. It is primarily involved is one of the largest radio networks. Its corporate office is located at the 4th Floor ...

. It serves as the flagship station of iFM Philippines. The station's

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is located at the RMN Broadcast Center (Canoy Bldg.), Don Apolinario Velez St. cor. Echem St.,

Cagayan de Oro Cagayan ( ), officially the Province of Cagayan ( ilo, Probinsia ti Cagayan; ibg, Provinsiya na Cagayan; itv, Provinsiya ya Cagayan; fil, Lalawigan ng Cagayan), is a province in the Philippines located in the Cagayan Valley region, covering ...

, and its

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is located at Brgy. Bulua,

History

Established on 1974, DXVM was the first RMN station and the pioneer FM station in the city. It began its broadcasting on November 1, 1976, as 99.1 VM-FM, carrying a

CHR/Top 40 Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by ...

format together with other RMN FM stations across the country, excluding

DWHB DWHB (103.9 FM), broadcasting as 103.9 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio is located at Room 203, Laperal Bldg., Upper Session Rd., Baguio, and its transmitter is located at Diploma ...

in Baguio (which they carrying

smooth jazz Smooth jazz is a genre of commercially-oriented crossover jazz and easy listening music that became dominant in the mid 1970s to the early 1990s. History Smooth jazz is a commercially oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 19 ...

format) and DYXL in Cebu (which they carrying

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format). On August 16, 1992, the station was relaunched as Smile Radio 99.1 with the slogan "The Voice of Music". It was one of few Smile Radio station with the same format, along with

DYHT DYHT (94.3 FM), on-air as 94.3 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio is located at the RMN Broadcast Center, 17th Lacson St., Bacolod, while its transmitter is located at Sitio Aning, Brgy ...

Bacolod Bacolod, officially the City of Bacolod (; hil, Dakbanwa/Syudad sang Bacolod; fil, Lungsod ng Bacolod), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the region of Western Visayas, Philippines. It is the capital of the province of Negros Occidenta ...

. On November 23, 1999, Smile Radio was rebranded as 991 VMFM (pronounced as "nine-nine-one") with its slogan "Live It Up!". On May 16, 2002, after almost 2 decades of being CHR/Top 40 station in CDO, the station was relaunched once more as 99.1 iFM and switched to an mass-based format.Cebuano News: PGMA miasoy sa iyang panglantaw alang sa Pilipinas sa mosunod nga 3 ka tuig
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References

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