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DZFE
DZFE (98.7 FM) is a non-commercial radio station owned and operated by the Far East Broadcasting Company (Philippines). The station's studio and transmitter are located on the 46th floor of One Corporate Centre, Meralco Ave. cor. Doña Julia Vargas Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig. This station operates daily from 6:00 AM to 3:00 AM the following day.
DZFE was the second radio station established by American missionaries, who founded the first station (DZAS) of Far East Broadcasting Company in 1948. FEBC's mission of bringing "Christ to the World by Radio" was first directed toward China. However, in 1954, FEBC stepped forward to answer a government bid for the establishment of a classical music station.
On June 1, 1954, DZFE marked its inaugural broadcast. It aired from 6pm to 8pm, playing motets and chorales from Strauss II, Rimsky-Korsakov, a Filipino musical (My Nipa Hut), and Bach, at a frequency of 1030 kilohertz.
Initially, the broadcast comprised sequenced music; programming provided by the network's English Service was brought in to augment the material. DZFE debuted its first full day of broadcast on April 4, 1961, signing on at 5AM and signing off at 11PM.
John Hubbard became the station's new director in 1963. He had previously led the music faculty of Westmont College in California, and gave DZFE's programming the educational impetus and Gospel-centered worldview it possesses to the present day. In 1965, DZFE's staff acquired its second member with the addition of Joy Dulaca, née Abiera, a music graduate of Silliman University in Dumaguete, who took over the leadership of the station in 1975 when Hubbard returned to the United States.
In the 70s, DZFE moved to the FM band though 98.7 MHz due to the act which is called ownership restriction that doesn't allow 2 AM stations in the same franchise in the same location. In 1976, it reduced its broadcast to six hours a day, going on the air from 4PM to midnight. It expanded back to its regular broadcast hours a few years later.
During the 1986 People Power Revolution, the operators of Catholic owned Radio Veritas, who were operating as "Radyo Bandido" to give people information about movements around Camp Crame and Camp Aguinaldo, briefly considered asking to use DZFE's transmitter in Bulacan after Marcos' soldiers had knocked out their tower. However, they decided it was instead better to request access to the transmitter of DZRJ in Sta. Mesa, which was closer.
Later that year, it reduced its broadcast once again by going off the air from noon to 6PM. It reclaimed the said broadcast hours the following year.
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DZFE
DZFE (98.7 FM) is a non-commercial radio station owned and operated by the Far East Broadcasting Company (Philippines). The station's studio and transmitter are located on the 46th floor of One Corporate Centre, Meralco Ave. cor. Doña Julia Vargas Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig. This station operates daily from 6:00 AM to 3:00 AM the following day.
DZFE was the second radio station established by American missionaries, who founded the first station (DZAS) of Far East Broadcasting Company in 1948. FEBC's mission of bringing "Christ to the World by Radio" was first directed toward China. However, in 1954, FEBC stepped forward to answer a government bid for the establishment of a classical music station.
On June 1, 1954, DZFE marked its inaugural broadcast. It aired from 6pm to 8pm, playing motets and chorales from Strauss II, Rimsky-Korsakov, a Filipino musical (My Nipa Hut), and Bach, at a frequency of 1030 kilohertz.
Initially, the broadcast comprised sequenced music; programming provided by the network's English Service was brought in to augment the material. DZFE debuted its first full day of broadcast on April 4, 1961, signing on at 5AM and signing off at 11PM.
John Hubbard became the station's new director in 1963. He had previously led the music faculty of Westmont College in California, and gave DZFE's programming the educational impetus and Gospel-centered worldview it possesses to the present day. In 1965, DZFE's staff acquired its second member with the addition of Joy Dulaca, née Abiera, a music graduate of Silliman University in Dumaguete, who took over the leadership of the station in 1975 when Hubbard returned to the United States.
In the 70s, DZFE moved to the FM band though 98.7 MHz due to the act which is called ownership restriction that doesn't allow 2 AM stations in the same franchise in the same location. In 1976, it reduced its broadcast to six hours a day, going on the air from 4PM to midnight. It expanded back to its regular broadcast hours a few years later.
During the 1986 People Power Revolution, the operators of Catholic owned Radio Veritas, who were operating as "Radyo Bandido" to give people information about movements around Camp Crame and Camp Aguinaldo, briefly considered asking to use DZFE's transmitter in Bulacan after Marcos' soldiers had knocked out their tower. However, they decided it was instead better to request access to the transmitter of DZRJ in Sta. Mesa, which was closer.
Later that year, it reduced its broadcast once again by going off the air from noon to 6PM. It reclaimed the said broadcast hours the following year.