DZBR (531 AM) Bible Radio is a radio station in the

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owned by the Allied Broadcasting Center and operated by the

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. Its studios are located at #350 Taft Ave.,

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, and its transmitter is located at the Angel One Tower,

Tanauan, Batangas Tanauan, officially the City of Tanauan ( fil, Lungsod ng Tanauan), is a 2nd class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, component city in the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2020 cens ...

. DZBR operates daily from 5:00 AM to 12:00 MN on terrestrial radio, and 24/7 through mobile applications and website.

History

1981-2002: Radyo Balisong

DZBR was once known as Radyo Balisong of the Kumintang Broadcasting System and served as a full service station of Batangas from its launch in 1981. Veteran local radio personalities such as Beting Mauhay and Grace Beredo were mainstays of the station, as well as neophytes Renz Belda and Larry Karangalan who both had later successes in the field. Belda is currently with

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and DWAL-FM while Karangalan currently works with Radyo Natin Padre Garcia. It won in the 11th Golden Dove Awards as Best Provincial AM Radio Station, and its program ''Usapang Pangkababaihan'' as Best Provincial Radio Special. Radyo Balisong closed shop in 2002 as a part of cost-cutting measures and competition from FM stations.

2017-present: Bible Radio

In mid 2016, DZBR secured its operations permit from the

National Telecommunications Commission The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC; fil, Pambansang Komisyon sa Telekomunikasyon) is an attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology responsible for the supervision, adjudication and control over a ...

to return on the air under new ownership. Teasers of the new station were already posted as early as August 2016 while procuring its materials and assembling its hybrid feeds from Tanauan and Manila. DZBR returned on the air in January 2017 as a test broadcast before its full launch two months later. Programs of the

are fed on a hybrid pattern from Manila and Tanauan, respectively at different times of the day.Cathedral of Praise Holds Church Services For Youth and Professionals
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References

Radio stations in Batangas Christian radio stations in the Philippines {{coord missing, Philippines

History

1981-2002: Radyo Balisong

2017-present: Bible Radio

See also

References