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DXSS-FM
DXSS (97.9 FM broadcasting, FM), broadcasting as 97.9 XFM, is a radio station owned by Southern Broadcasting Network and operated by XFM (Philippines), Y2H Broadcasting Network, Inc. It serves as the flagship station of XFM Philippines. Its studio and transmitter are located at the SBN Compound, Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Brgy. Matina Crossing, Davao City. It is considered to be pioneer FM station in the city. History DXSS began its operations in 1977. At that time, it was an affiliate of GMA Network (company), GMA Network. It aired an Album-oriented rock, AOR format. In 1995, GMA ended its partnership with SBN. Not long after, DXSS rebranded as Music Now and switched to an Adult Top 40 format. In 2002, the station rebranded as Mom's Radio 97.9 with a music and talk format targeting the mothers and mother-to-be. In 2010, it rebranded back as DXSS with limited broadcast time. In November 2015, Mom's Radio returned on air, this time via satellite from Manila under the manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XFM (Philippines)
XFM is a Philippine broadcast FM radio network owned by Y2H Broadcasting Network. It is based in Tagum, Davao del Norte. It began its broadcast in February 28, 2022, when a group of mediamen led by Yes2Health CEO Dr. Remelito Y. Uy, took over the operations of RMCBC-owned DXDE-FM in Tagum. This formed the nucleus of XFM until it transferred its base operations to DXSS-FM in Davao City later that year. After its successful launch, XFM expanded into various markets across the country by the use of airtime lease management. Aside from its news and music programming, XFM also airs gospel music every Friday 6:00 pm to Saturday 6:00 pm under ''The Gospel Hour'' block due to its owner's affiliation with the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement. In addition, Y2H also owns Solid FM, the secondary brand of XFM. On March 2025, they managed to got a partnership deal with Real Radio Network, a former partner of Tiger 22 Media Corporation Tiger 22 Media Corporation is an Media man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Broadcasting Network
Southern Broadcasting Network, Inc. (SBN) is a Media in the Philippines, Filipino media company based in Mandaluyong, Philippines. SBN is a subsidiary of Solar Entertainment Corporation, a Filipino-owned television company managed by the Tieng family. Its main broadcast facilities are located at the Third Floor, Worldwide Corporate Center, EDSA corner Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong. Southern Broadcasting Network operates television stations with airtime being leased by its parent Solar Entertainment, serving as primary broadcasters of movie and entertainment channel SolarFlix. SBN also owns two regional FM radio stations under the brand XFM Philippines in Cebu and Davao and a regional FM radio station under the brand Solid FM in Bacolod, serving as partial affiliates of Y2H (Yes2Health) Broadcasting Network. History World TV/SBN era (1992–2007) SBN was founded by Gem Communications Holdings Corporation (GemCom) majority owned by Filipino-Chinese tycoon Lucio Co, founder of su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DXDE-FM
DXDE (100.7 FM), broadcasting as 100.7 Juander Radyo, is a radio station owned by Rizal Memorial Colleges Broadcasting Corporation and operated by RSV Broadcasting Network. Its studio and transmitter are located at Oesom Bldg., Sobrecary St, Brgy Poblacion, Tagum. History The station was established on March 15, 2014, as One Radio under the Radyo ni Juan network. At that time, it was located at Purok Bautista, Brgy. Mankilam. On December 2, 2020, it, along with the other Radyo ni Juan stations, went off the air due to financial problems. On March 1, 2022, the station went back on air, this time as XFM under the management of Dr. Remelito Uy's Y2H Broadcasting Network. It moved to its present location in Villa Magsanoc Subdivision at the same barangay. It was initially an originating station until October 4, 2022, when it transferred its studios to Davao City Davao City, officially the City of Davao, is a City of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davao City
Davao City, officially the City of Davao, is a City of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Davao Region, Philippines. The city has a total land area of , making it the List of Philippine cities and municipalities by area, largest city in the Philippines in terms of land area. It is the List of Philippine cities and municipalities by population, third-most populous city in the Philippines after Quezon City and Manila respectively, and the most populous city in Mindanao, in Davao Region, and outside of Metro Manila. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 1,776,949 people. It is the largest city in the province of Davao del Sur both in population and land area wherein it is geographically situated and grouped under the province by the Philippine Statistics Authority, but the city is governed and administered independently from it. The city is divided into three congressional districts, which are subdivided into 11 administrative district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of Power (physics), power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), quantify the rate of Work (physics), energy transfer. The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish people, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved the Newcomen engine with his own Watt steam engine, steam engine in 1776, which became fundamental for the Industrial Revolution. Overview When an object's velocity is held constant at one meter per second against a constant opposing force of one Newton (unit), newton, the rate at which Work (physics), work is done is one watt. \mathrm. In terms of electromagnetism, one watt is the rate at which electrical work is performed when a current of one ampere (A) flows across an electrical potential difference of one volt (V), meaning the watt is equivalent to the vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album-oriented Rock
Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM radio format created in the United States in the late 1960s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock. US radio stations dedicated to playing album tracks by rock artists from the hard rock and progressive rock genres initially established album-oriented radio. In the mid-1970s, AOR was characterized by a layered, mellifluous sound and sophisticated production with considerable dependence on melodic hooks. The AOR format achieved tremendous popularity in the late 1960s to the early 1980s through research and formal programming to create an album rock format with great commercial appeal. From the early 1980s onward, the abbreviation AOR transitioned from "album-oriented radio" to "album-oriented rock", meaning radio stations specialized in classic rock recorded during the late 1960s and 1970s. The term is also commonly conflated with " adult-or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GMA Network (company)
GMA Network Inc., commonly known as GMA, is a Philippine media company based in Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. GMA is primarily involved in radio and television broadcasting, with subsidiaries dealing in various media-related businesses. The majority of its profits are derived from publicity and marketing incomes associated with television distribution. GMA is formed by the legal name of Global Media Arts. GMA Network was founded on March 1, 1950 by American entrepreneur Robert "Uncle Bob" Stewart as Loreto F. de Hemedes Inc. The company launched its first radio station, DZBB on June 14, 1950. Its first broadcast on television was launched on October 29, 1961, and the television station was known as DZBB Channel 7. In 1974, the company became known as Republic Broadcasting System (RBS) after the triumvirate of Gilberto Duavit Sr., Menardo Jimenez and Felipe Gozon due to the changes in media ownership laws. It then changed its corporate name to GMA Netw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FM Broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to transmit high fidelity, high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting offers higher fidelity—more accurate reproduction of the original program sound—than other broadcasting techniques, such as AM broadcasting. It is also less susceptible to Electromagnetic interference, common forms of interference, having less static and popping sounds than are often heard on AM. Therefore, FM is used for most broadcasts of music and general audio (in the audio spectrum). FM radio stations use the very high frequency range of radio frequency, radio frequencies. Broadcast bands Throughout the world, the FM broadcast band falls within the VHF part of the radio spectrum. Usually 87.5 to 108.0 MHz is used, or some portion of it, with few exceptions: * In the Commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Telecommunications Commission (Philippines)
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC; ) is the telecommunications regulator of the Philippines. It is an attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology responsible for the supervision, adjudication and control over all telecommunications services and radio and television networks throughout the country. History The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) was created under Executive Order No. 546 promulgated on July 23, 1979, and conferred with regulatory and quasi-judicial functions taken over from the Board of Communications and the Telecommunications Control Bureau, which were abolished in the same Order. Primarily, the NTC is the sole body that exercises jurisdiction over the supervision, adjudication and control over all telecommunications services and television networks throughout the country. For the effective enforcement of this responsibility, it adopts and promotes guidelines, rules, and regulations on the establishme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Davao
Metro Davao, officially Metropolitan Davao (; ), is a metropolitan area in Mindanao, Philippines. It includes the cities of Davao City, Davao, Digos, Panabo, Samal, Davao del Norte, Samal and Tagum and spanned parts of all five provinces of the Davao Region. Metro Davao is one of List of metropolitan areas in the Philippines, three metropolitan areas in the Philippines. It is administered by the Metropolitan Davao Development Authority. It is the largest metropolitan region by land area and the second most populous in the Philippines. History Comparison with other metropolitan areas The agglomeration of Metro Davao has no formal legal framework early on its initial stage of development process either by an act of Congress of the Philippines, Congress, by an executive declaration of the President of the Philippines, president or by a formal agreement among component cities and municipalities of the metropolitan area. In the case of Metro Manila, the component cities and municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the testimony of Witness, observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media. Subject matters for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, economy, business, fashion, sport, entertainment, and the Climate change, environment, as well as quirky or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning Monarchy, royal ceremonies, laws, taxes, public health, and Crime, criminals, have been dubbed news since ancient times. Technology, Technological and Social change, social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content. Throughout history, people have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
