Philippine Broadcasting Service, Inc.
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| Philippine Broadcasting Service | |
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| Type | Unknown |
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| Founded | 1945 |
| Headquarters | Quezon City Philippines |
| Key people | Jose Isabelo John Manalili |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| Net income | Unknown |
| Employees | 11,964 |
| Website | http://www.pbs.gov.ph/ |
Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a radio network in the Philippines. It os owned by the Philippine government.
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[edit] History
Few months after U.S. liberated the Philippines, on May 8, 1945, the U.S. government established and operated radio station DZFM (then KZFM) in the Philippines on frequency 710 kHz with a power of 10 kilowatts through the United States Information Service. In September 1946, two months after the Philippines became an independent country from U.S.A., KZFM was turned over to the Philippine government. With the transfer was born the Philippine Broadcasting Service, PBS the first broadcasting organization in the country.
The station was first operated by the Department of Foreign Affairs until it was transferred to the Radio Broadcasting Board (RBB) which was created by President Manuel Roxas on September 3, 1947. Meanwhile in the same year, an international telecommunications conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, reassigned the letter "D" to replace the former "K" as the initial call letter for all radio stations in the Philippines. In January 1952, the RBB was abolished to give way to the establishment of the Philippine Information Council (PIC) which then assumed the function of the RBB, including the operation of DZFM. In turn, the PIC was abolished on July 1, 1952, and since then, until the creation of the Department of Public Information in 1969, DZFM and the Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) had been operated under the Office of the President.
Over the years hence, the PBS had acquired 13 more radio stations, one TV station which it time-shared with two other organizations, and changed its name to Bureau of Broadcast Services. At the same time that the BB was blazing a broadcasting trail now known as "network broadcasting", another government organization was building up its broadcast capability to rival, or in some instances, to complement, that of the BB. The National Media Production Center, NMPC, had acquired the facilities of the Voice of America in Malolos, Bulacan in 1969 and steadily brought the old complex up to standards by a steady overhaul, fine-tuning, and outright replacement of outmoded equipment and machines. The NMPC operated the Voice of the Philippines, VOP, on both medium wave-918 kHz and shortwave 9.810 mHz transmissions. In 1979, the NMPC obtained DWIM-FM. With this new station and some provincial stations that came under its wings earlier, the NMPC was a network and effectively covered a wide range of the Philippine listenership.
Public broadcasting in the Philippines was thus represented by the BB and the NMPC and catered to the educational and cultural needs of its audiences while endeavoring to keep it entertained with fare from indigenous material. Public service features were the keystone of its programs.
The BB and the NMPC were brought under one administrative roof in 1978 when the Office of Media Affairs was created to provide a loose union for both networks within the ABS-CBN complex on Bohol Avenue in Quezon City. It was not an ideal situation, to say the least, since, as there had been no clear guidelines on the proper implementation of their respective operational strategies, the BB and the NMPC often squabbled, to the detriment of public broadcasting goals.
After the EDSA Revolution, the Office of Media Affairs was abolished, followed by the NMPC, and finally, the BB. In their stead was a plan, a vision, for one, single government broadcasting organization that would not be an echo device for the government, or much less, for any one man, but would instead dedicate itself to the service of the people through honest, balanced, and meaningful broadcasting.
That lay the blueprints and groundwork of the Bureau of Broadcast Services.
During Aquino administration, PBS transferred its office from ABS-CBN complex to PIA Building in Visayas Avenue.
[edit] About Radyo ng Bayan:
Radio ng Bayan or the People's Radio is the voice or pulse of the citizenry. it is situated at 738kHz on the AM band with a power of 50kw under the Bureau of Broadcast Services (BBS) or Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS), Office of the Press Secretary. As the government's flagship radio station it serves as a medium of development communication, a conduit between the government and the people, aiming to mobilize all sectors of society towards development and nationalism.
[edit] Stations
[edit] Metro Manila
- DZRB 738 kHz-Radyo ng Bayan
- DZSR 918 kHz-Sports Radio
- DZRM 1278 kHz-Radyo Magazine
- DWBR 104.3 Mhz-Business Radio
- Overseas Radio-Radyo Pilipinas
[edit] Radyo ng Bayan Luzon
- DWBT 1134 kHz-Basco, Batanes
- DWPE 729 kHz-Tuguegarao
- DWFB 954 kHz-Laoag
- DZRK 1323 kHz-Tabuk, Kalinga
- DWFR 972 kHz-Bontoc, Mountain Province
- DZEQ 999 kHz-Baguio
- DZAG 1224 kHz-Agoo, La Union
- DZMQ 576 kHz-Dagupan
- DWRS 756 kHz-Tayug, Pangasinan
- DWLC 1017 kHz-Lucena
- DWRB 549 kHz-Naga
- DZBU 621 kHz-Legaspi
- DZVC 1224 kHz-Virac, Catanduanes
- DZER 1350 kHz-Boac, Marinduque
- DWRM 567 kHz-Puerto Princesa
[edit] Radyo ng Bayan Visayas
- DYOG 882 kHz-Calbayog
- DYES 657 kHz-Borongan
- DYMP 1566 kHz-Tacloban
- DYSL 1359 kHz-Sogod, Southern Leyte
- DYLL 585 kHz-Iloilo
- DYMR 576 kHz-Cebu
[edit] Radyo ng Bayan Mindanao
- DXJS 873 kHz-Tandag
- DXBN 936 kHz-Butuan
- DXRG 882 kHz-Gingoog
- DXIM 936 kHz-Cagayan de Oro
- DXSO 774 kHz-Marawi
- DXRP 666 kHz-Davao
- DXMR 1170 kHz-Zamboanga
- DXSM 1224 kHz-Jolo, Sulu
- DXDC 999 kHz-Tawi-Tawi
