DZRJ/Radyo Bandido
DZRJ/Radyo Bandido broadcasts at 810 kHz over the AM band from its studios in Makati Metropolis. It can be operated by Rajah Broadcasting Community Inc. Started in 1963 by Ramon Jacinto, So the RJ in its connect with letters, it initially aired at 780 kHz branded as Manager Radio. Inside the nineteen seventies, it rebranded alone because the Rock of Manila, With all the daily display Pinoy Rock ’n’ Rhythm, later on shortened to Pinoy Rock, as its flagship system. The station is credited for the popularization of the musical genre Pinoy Rock by recording and airing impartial, unsigned, and unidentified songs artists and by internet hosting concerts within the J&T Developing in Santa Mesa, Manila, in which its studios had been formerly Situated. Among the new artists while in the seventies who obtained general public exposure as a result of DZRJ have been Florante, Heber Bartolome plus the Banyuhay Band, Juan de la Cruz Band, Sampaguita, Mike Hanopol, Anakbayan, Maria Cafra, and also the then relatively mysterious Apolinario Mabini Mountaineering Culture.
DZRJ performed a essential component within the February 1986 EDSA Revolt towards the Marcos dictatorship. When then protection minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Armed Forces in the Philippines vice Main of staff members Fidel Ramos holed on their own up in Camp Crame together EDSA and introduced in a press meeting their withdrawal of guidance from Marcos, signaling the beginning in the revolt, Catholic prelate Jaime Cardinal Sin went live on Catholic station DZRV to rally the public to check out EDSA to guidance the rebels. DZRV’s transmitter was subsequently bombed, so its broadcast moved to DZRJ in Santa Mesa; DZRJ then was from the air, shut down because of the army many years previously. It determined itself as Radyo Bandido (Bandit Radio) and started broadcast with “Mambo Magsaysay,” the marketing campaign anthem of previous president Ramon Magsaysay that decried corruption and named for democracy. With Jesuit priest James Reuter’s supervision, June Keithley and several other Other individuals, which includes Lyca Benitez-Brown, govt producer of the children’s television demonstrate Batibot (Smaller but Powerful), movie director Peque Gallaga and his wife Madie and their son, and actor Jaime Fabregas, went over a four-day marathon broadcast of updates within the developments on EDSA. Keithley called on people today to help keep coming to the positioning and serve as human barricade versus the approaching military services tanks, appealed for food items and drinking water with the people today keeping vigil on EDSA, and transmitted military services orders from rebel officers to rebel troopers in the sphere. She didn't announce the location with the Radyo Bandido studio whilst many hundreds of nuns surrounded the J&T Constructing to shield the broadcast. The Other individuals who assisted Keithley in the published have been musical director Nonong Buencamino, Teofilo Hilario, Geny Luber, Lore Reyes, Don Escudero, Mario Taguiwalo, Gerry Cerena, Kokoy and Melissa Jimenez, Maryanne Borromeo and her household, as well as brothers Paolo and Gabby Mercado (Benitez-Brown 2006, 33-34; Fenix 1989, 19-20).
Adhering to Marcos’s ouster, DZRJ retained the name Radyo Bandido and switched to a public services format, at the same time as it continued to air music. In 2001, it covered the so-named EDSA II, which taken out Pres Joseph Estrada from Place of work. In 2004, it began airing news from your British Broadcasting Company (BBC) along with the Voice of America (VOA). Reportage within the Philippine Basketball Association game titles was moved to DZRJ from DZSR in 2009, when that about the game titles in the College Athletic Association of the Philippines started off in Manila Health 2010. In 2010, it once more rebranded alone because the Voice of the Philippines. It continues to hold information from BBC and VOA together with from your each day Philippine Star, and general public company and amusement applications.
Its system Ngayon Na, Bayan! (Now Is time, People!) obtained the 2002 Golden Dove Award for Most effective General public Affairs Program for Radio in Metro Manila within the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas.
Written by Elizabeth L. Enriquez, Thea Claudette Castañeda, and Frances Louise M. Ronquillo
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