DXOO (97.5 FM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

owned by

Nation Broadcasting Corporation Nation Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) is a Philippine radio and television broadcast company established in 1963. As of December 2013, NBC is a subsidiary of MediaQuest Holdings, Inc. under the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund. NBC's radio and t ...

and operated by

Philippine Collective Media Corporation Philippine Collective Media Corporation (PCMC; officially known in their documents as Philippine CollectiveMedia Corporation) is a Media in the Philippines, Philippine broadcast media company. Its headquarters are located in Barangay South Tri ...

. It currently serves as a relay station of

FM Radio 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-f ...

in Manila. The station's transmitter is located in PLDT Building, Beatiles St.,

General Santos General Santos, officially the City of General Santos and abbreviated as GenSan, is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Regions of the Philippines, region of Soccsksargen, Philippines. According to ...

History

The station began operations in 1976 as MRS 97.5, airing an

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

format. In 1998, after NBC was acquired by PLDT subsidiary

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, the station rebranded as Anna @ Rhythms 97.5 (later on shortened to Anna 97.5) and switched to a

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format. In 2009, it rebranded as WAV FM. On February 21, 2011, months after TV5 took over operations of the stations, it was became a relay station of 92.3 Radyo5 in Manila which later in November 4, 2024 became 105.9 True FM. On November 4, 2024 it became relay station of FM Radio Manila 92.3 as part of its agreement in which PCMC will acquire most of NBC radio assets and frequencies, except for its Cebu and Cagayan de Oro stations.

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