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DWBM-FM
DWBM (105.1 FM), broadcasting as 105.1 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned by Mareco Broadcasting Network and operated under an airtime lease agreement by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. It serves as a Luzon flagship station of the Brigada News FM Network. The station's studio is located at the 26th Floor, One San Miguel Avenue Bldg., San Miguel Avenue corner Shaw Boulevard, Ortigas Center, Pasig; its transmitter is located at San Carlos Heights, Binangonan, Rizal.
Mareco Broadcasting Network, Inc., owned by Villar family led by Manuel Sr., made its debut in the radio industry in 1963. The family were the pioneers of the country's music industry which had started Mabuhay and Villar records, two of the country's first and then largest recording companies. The latter was also the licensee of many foreign labels, including RCA, Columbia and Motown.
DZLM Love Radio 1430 was established by the family, being one of the network's first AM radio stations; another was DZBM 740 which first went on the air. Both stations originally served only as a promotional venue for Mareco's record labels. While played a local recording once daily, they mostly played records under foreign labels as well; all requested by the listeners within their 19-hour run in later years.
The station was known for pioneering the contemporary hit radio (top 40) format, as well as playing dance music in 1971.
Upon the declaration of nationwide martial law in 1972, a decree was issued ordering a broadcast company to operate an AM and an FM station in each area. While DZBM was kept, DZLM migrated to FM the following year, later becoming DWLM 105.1. DZBM, on the other hand, had played a variety of the latest in popular music and consistently topped the surveys; had the magazine-type format until becoming the first AM station to reformat and subsequently the top-rated pop music station for at least five to six years, and later became DWOO with a showbiz-oriented format. The station, now owned by Interactive Broadcast Media, is currently operated as DWWW 774.
The station continued with its format, competing with DZRJ-FM. The station later became Super Tunog Pinoy with an all-Filipino format, and then Power 105 (DZ)BM FM with a new wave format from 1985 to 1991, competing with WXB 102 (then at 102.7 FM).
Thereafter, the station changed its call letters to DWBM-FM and its format to be adapted by its succeeding management. It was in this decade when the station became the country's first CNN radio affiliate.
In 1994, when Luis Villar sold the shares to his children, the station went to his son, Louie, who reformatted it as Crossover. The station pioneered the smooth jazz format; a blend of cool jazz, rhythm and blues, Latin, pop, classic soul, samba, and tropical music; the combination of these was described by the Villars as the "most literal translation" of the station's name they had coined and later popularized. It was able to distinguish itself from Citylite 88.3 which plays only jazz. The station's first corporate logo—roughly based on a silhouette of jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal—was introduced in 1996. Being classified as an avant-garde music station by then, high-income listeners were the target audiences.
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DWBM-FM
DWBM (105.1 FM), broadcasting as 105.1 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned by Mareco Broadcasting Network and operated under an airtime lease agreement by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. It serves as a Luzon flagship station of the Brigada News FM Network. The station's studio is located at the 26th Floor, One San Miguel Avenue Bldg., San Miguel Avenue corner Shaw Boulevard, Ortigas Center, Pasig; its transmitter is located at San Carlos Heights, Binangonan, Rizal.
Mareco Broadcasting Network, Inc., owned by Villar family led by Manuel Sr., made its debut in the radio industry in 1963. The family were the pioneers of the country's music industry which had started Mabuhay and Villar records, two of the country's first and then largest recording companies. The latter was also the licensee of many foreign labels, including RCA, Columbia and Motown.
DZLM Love Radio 1430 was established by the family, being one of the network's first AM radio stations; another was DZBM 740 which first went on the air. Both stations originally served only as a promotional venue for Mareco's record labels. While played a local recording once daily, they mostly played records under foreign labels as well; all requested by the listeners within their 19-hour run in later years.
The station was known for pioneering the contemporary hit radio (top 40) format, as well as playing dance music in 1971.
Upon the declaration of nationwide martial law in 1972, a decree was issued ordering a broadcast company to operate an AM and an FM station in each area. While DZBM was kept, DZLM migrated to FM the following year, later becoming DWLM 105.1. DZBM, on the other hand, had played a variety of the latest in popular music and consistently topped the surveys; had the magazine-type format until becoming the first AM station to reformat and subsequently the top-rated pop music station for at least five to six years, and later became DWOO with a showbiz-oriented format. The station, now owned by Interactive Broadcast Media, is currently operated as DWWW 774.
The station continued with its format, competing with DZRJ-FM. The station later became Super Tunog Pinoy with an all-Filipino format, and then Power 105 (DZ)BM FM with a new wave format from 1985 to 1991, competing with WXB 102 (then at 102.7 FM).
Thereafter, the station changed its call letters to DWBM-FM and its format to be adapted by its succeeding management. It was in this decade when the station became the country's first CNN radio affiliate.
In 1994, when Luis Villar sold the shares to his children, the station went to his son, Louie, who reformatted it as Crossover. The station pioneered the smooth jazz format; a blend of cool jazz, rhythm and blues, Latin, pop, classic soul, samba, and tropical music; the combination of these was described by the Villars as the "most literal translation" of the station's name they had coined and later popularized. It was able to distinguish itself from Citylite 88.3 which plays only jazz. The station's first corporate logo—roughly based on a silhouette of jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal—was introduced in 1996. Being classified as an avant-garde music station by then, high-income listeners were the target audiences.