December 2010
10 posts
“There is much to expose, to indict. The Philippines is a country in which a man...”
– The New York Times review for Michael Syjuco’s 2008 Palanca Grand Prize and MAN Asia Prize winning novel “Ilustrado”. The book was included in the NYT 100 Notable Books of 2010. (via pinoytumblr)
R.I.P. (long overdue), "Campus Radio" (1992-2007)
DWLS, formerly operating as Campus Radio 97.1 WLS-FM, is the flagship FM radio station of Radio GMA Network Inc. (RGMA, a subsidiary of GMA Network Inc.) The station’s studio is located at the GMA Network Center in Quezon City, and its transmitter is located at Tandang Sora, Quezon City. The station’s call letters (DWLS) were derived from the name Loreto, wife of former GMA...
R.I.P. (long overdue), "The Danze Music Zone"...
89 DMZ Danze Muzic Zone (formerly under DZMZ 89.1 MHz Metro Manila) was a music FM station from November 1988 until November 2000 and it was owned and operated by the Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC-13). Its studios were located at Broadcast City, Capitol Hills, Diliman, Quezon City, with its transmitter was located along Roosevelt Avenue, San Francisco del Monte,...
R.I.P. (long overdue), "Joey" (1998-2009)
Callsign DWFM is an FM radio station owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation and was previously known by the following names - known as MRS 92.3 - Most Requested Songs, Joey@Rhythms92.3, 923Joey and later xFM 92.3.
Nation Broadcasting Corporation was born in 1963 as a result of the vision of one of Philippine radio’s pioneers - Abelardo Yabut, Sr. Starting as a one-station affair with...
R.I.P. (long overdue), "The Smoothest Place on FM"...
Raven Broadcasting Corporation (callsign - DWCT-FM), Citylite 88.3, a smooth jazz radio station owned by Francis Lumen, played smooth jazz and rhythm and blues from May 27, 1988 to June 30, 2003. It competed directly with 105.1 Crossover and Kiss Jazz 101.1 (before it sadly became Yes FM 101.1). On October 1996, Citylite 88.3 launched on the internet with its live streaming on the old...
