DXYZ (963 AM) Sonshine Radio was a radio station owned and operated by

Sonshine Media Network International Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI), also known by its legal name Swara Sug Media Corporation (SSMC), is a Tagalog broadcast media arm of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) led by the Tagalog televangelist Apollo Quiboloy. Based in Dav ...

. The station's studio is located at the 4th floor, MindPro Building, La Purisima St.,

Zamboanga City Zamboanga City, officially the City of Zamboanga (; ; Subanen languages, Subanen: ''Bagbenwa Sembwangan''; Sama–Bajaw languages, Sama: ''Lungsud Samboangan''; ; ; ) is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city i ...

History

Established on July 12, 1963, DXYZ was the first station of

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under the helm of Abelardo L. Yabut Sr. It is also in

. Its offices and studios were located then in the third floor of Evangelista Building, the tallest in the city by that time. It transmitted then on a 1-kilowatt surplus transmitter from Deeco Electronics through its tower on the building rooftop. Eddie Rodriguez, who later on became the city councilor, was the station's first manager by later part of that year. It was known as NBC DXYZ Radyo 963 and later on Angel Radyo 963. In 1998,

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media subsidiary

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bought NBC from the consortium led by the Yabut family and real estate magnate

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. In 2005, The Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) leader, pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy purchased all of NBC AM radio stations, including DXYZ, and rebranded them as Sonshine Radio. On mid-December 2023, the station, along with the rest of the network, had its operations suspended by the

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for 30 days, through an order dated December 19 but was publicized two days later, in response to a

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resolution, in relation to the alleged franchise violations.

References

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