DYRT

DYRT (99.5 FM) - on-air as Barangay RT 99.5 - is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network Inc. The station's studio and transmitter are located at GMA Skyview Complex, Nivel Hills, Apas, Cebu City.

History

1978-1979: DYLS/DYRT

The station was established in 1978 on 97.1 MHz under the call letters DYLS. It was the second oldest regional FM station under the auspices of the Republic Broadcasting System after DXSS in Davao, which started operations in 1977. In 1979, the station went off the air, later it revived in 1992 under the brand LS 97.1 (now MOR 97.1) when AMCARA Broadcasting Network owned this station until it was taken over by ABS-CBN in 1996.

1980-1995: Double 9.5 RT

On February 4, 1980, the station returned to air, this time on 99.5 MHz under the call letters DYRT. It carried the branding Double 9.5 RT: The Romantic Touch, with the slogans "Cebu's Most Romantic Easy Listening Radio Station" and "The Beautiful Music Station of Cebu". Back then, its studio and transmitter were located at the 10/F Luym Bldg. along Plaridel cor. Juan Luna St. (now Osmeña Blvd.). The station aired easy listening music and news updates every top of the hour, and English was used as its medium. In 1990, DYRT and its sister station GMA-7 Cebu moved to its current home in GMA Skyview Complex in Nivel Hills, Apas, and switched to an Top 40 format.

1995-2014: Campus Radio/99.5 RT

On March 1, 1995, following the launch of RGMA done by Mike Enriquez, the station was rebranded as Campus Radio 99.5 RT, with the slogan "Forever!". Two years later, when Bobby Nalzaro took over the operations of GMA Cebu, the station changed its slogan to "Nindota-Ah!", which was later adapted by several RGMA FM stations in Mindanao in 1998, and changed its medium to Cebuano. The station was reformatted to a Contemporary MOR station. On July 29, 2002, the Campus Radio branding was dropped and changed its brand to 99.5 RT. From 2013 to 2018, as conducted by Nielsen Radio Audience Measurement, 99.5 RT Cebu was the dominant overall Number 1 Radio Station in Cebu.

2014-present: Barangay RT

On February 17, 2014, as part of RGMA's brand unifying, the station was rebranded as Barangay RT 99.5 and carried-over the slogan "Isang Bansa, Isang Barangay". Since then, it began simulcasting a handful of programs from its Manila station. On April 22, 2019, the station began airing one of DYSS Super Radyo's program ''Bobby Nalzaro On Board: Saksi'' (now ''On Board: Saksi''), making it the only regional Barangay FM station to do so.Nalzaro: Politics even in times of emergency
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Following the effects of Typhoon Rai (Odette) in Cebu, Bohol and Leyte on December 16, 2021, the station implements a scaled-down programming operation; on the same day, it playing automated music.

References

External links

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www.amfmph.com/barangay-99-5-rt-cebu-11254.html

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Barangay FM stations
Barangay RT 99.5
Radio stations established in 1978