![]() ![]() DZAQ 620 kHz featured news, variety and music programs on an AM format which then the progenitor of DZAQ-TV 3. Eddie Ilarde, Ike Lozada, German Moreno and Joey de Leon were the personalities of the station at that time. Its first radio studios were in Manila, sharing the same building with the television studios. In 1957, with the opening of the then new ABS radio and television studios in Pasay, the DZAQ radio studios moved there. ![]() Years later, when ABS and the Lopez-owned Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN) were formally merged into a single network in 1967, DZAQ 620 kHz switched frequencies with CBN-owned DZXL 960 kHz and was later rebranded as DZAQ Radyo Patrol 960 kHz, one of the pre- martial law flagship AM stations of ABS-CBN until 1972. Orly Mercado, who was one of the station managers from 1969 to 1971, together with Ben Aniceto, came up with a vision to establish a 24-hour all-news and all-talk radio station and ABS-CBN conceptualized it under the Radyo Patrol brand – the de facto successor of the ephemeral 24 hour news station DZQL Radyo Reloj, which CBN launched in 1956 (the very year it launched), and the first-ever 24-hour news radio station in the country and in Southeast Asia. The first and original Radyo Patrol team was unceremoniously organized following the aftermath of Super Typhoon Welming (International name: Emma) in 1967, at the old ABS-CBN Radio Broadcast Center in Aduana Street, Intramuros, Manila, which housed the station since it was moved in 1958. The then program manager Ben Aniceto and Chief Engineer Emilio Solidum created a solution to broadcast typhoon damage news from Manila and the surrounding areas. Using two VW Combis attached with a UHF transmitter, two teams of reporters were dispatched. Combi One had Al Mendez and Zoilo Paragas Jr as reporters and Combi 2 with Bar Samson. ![]() DZQL and DZXL became the carrying stations with then current DJs Naldy Castro, Buddy Medina, Boots Baker, Mary Jane Madamba and even the late Ike Lozada alternating as anchors. Consolidated revenues grew 44 percent to P16.84 billion.Cesar Mortega was assigned to coordinate the broadcasts. dzMM Radyo Patrol 630, the Rotary Club of Manila Journalism Awards 2010 Radio Station of the Year, topped all AM radio stations in the July 2010 Nielsen Mega Manila RAM with an audience share of 31 percent, 12 points higher than dzBB’s 19 percent and 13 points higher than dzRH’s 18 percent.Ĭable TV channel dzMM TeleRadyo, on the other hand, also ruled the competition as the top cable news channel in the July 2010 Kantar Media-TNS survey for all cabled households, surpassing CNN, BBC, Fox News and Channel News Asia.ĪBS-CBN reported a 179-percent jump in net profit in the first half this year on strong growth in regular advertising revenues complemented by political ad spending. These were Noah (35.9 percent), Agua Bendita (34.1 percent), TV Patrol (33.9 percent), Miss Universe (29.4 percent), Maalaala Mo Kaya (27.2 percent) Tatak ng Agimat (26.3 percent), Momay (25.2 percent), Magkaribal (24.7 percent), and Agimat: Elias Paniki (24.3 percent).ĪBS-CBN’s AM radio also dominated the ratings. Nine out of the top 10 programs in August belonged to ABS-CBN. ![]() More advertisers also prefer ABS-CBN as 43 percent of viewers with purchasing power (belonging to classes ABCD, which comprise 82 percent of the total urban population) watch ABS-CBN as compared to GMA with only 34 percent. It also led in Visayas with 58 percent and in Mindanao with 64 percent. In August, ABS-CBN remained unbeaten in Luzon areas outside Mega Manila with an average audience share of 43 percent versus GMA’s 38 percent. Year-to-date, ABS-CBN garnered an audience share of 44 percent as against rival station GMA Network Inc.’s 32 percent, based on the latest survey of Kantar Media. maintained its supremacy in national TV ratings in August, notching up an average audience share of 41 percent as more people tuned in to its primetime offerings. MANILA, Philippines - Multimedia conglomerate ABS-CBN Corp. ![]()
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