DXYZ (963 AM) Sonshine Radio is a radio station owned and operated by

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History

On July 12, 1963, DXYZ was set up by Abelardo L. Yabut, Sr., founder and later chief of

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, as the company's pioneer radio station, and also in

Zamboanga City Zamboanga City, officially the City of Zamboanga (Chavacano and es, Ciudad de Zamboanga, Tausūg: ''Dāira sin Sambuangan'', fil, Lungsod ng Zamboanga, ceb, Dakbayan sa Zamboanga), is a city in the Zamboanga Peninsula region of the Philipp ...

. Its offices and studios were located then in the third floor of Evangelista Building, the tallest in the city by that time. It transmitted then on a 1-kilowatt transmitter through its tower on the building rooftop. Future city councilor Eddie Rodriguez was the station's first manager by later part of that year."(Supplement) Nation Broadcasting Corporation: 25 years of service to the nation
(July 12, 1988)
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'', pp. 12–15. Retrieved June 20, 2022. DXYZ started broadcasting using a surplus transmitter Yabut bought from Deeco Electronics. It has known as NBC DXYZ Radyo 963 later Angel Radyo 963 in the 1990s. In 1998,

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media subsidiary

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bought NBC from the consortium led by the Yabut family and real estate magnate

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. In 2005, The Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) leader, Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy purchased all of NBC AM radio stations, including DXYZ, and rebranded them as Sonshine Radio.

References

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