DYMF (963 AM) Bombo Radyo is a

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owned and operated by

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through its licensee People's Broadcasting Service, Inc. Its studio and offices are located at Bombo Radyo Broadcast Center, 87-A Borromeo St.,

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; its transmitter is located at Sitio Alaska, Brgy. Mambaling,

. It operates daily from 4:00 AM to 9:30 PM. DYMF was once home of the Bombo Radyo Production Center. Cebu's Extremes Travel & Entertainment Provider (Cebu City) Corp. currently supplies drama programming to all cebuano-speaking Bombo Radyo stations in Visayas and Mindanao.

History

Bombo Radyo was inaugurated in 1978 on 648 kHz.

Bobby Nalzaro Pablito Galeza Nalzaro (August 11, 1963 – March 17, 2022), also known as Bobby Nalzaro or Super Bob, was a Filipino broadcast journalist, radio commentator and columnist. He was one of Cebu's tri-media personalities. He handled daily comme ...

, whose transferred to Cebu in 1987, serving as its acting station manager for ten years until he resigned in 1997 to joined GMA Cebu. In 1991, the station transferred to 963 kHz, which swapped frequencies with its rival station DYRC Radyo Balita (now Aksyon Radyo Cebu). DYMF used to air

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games through a partnership deal in the same year. Bombo Radyo went off the air on December 16, 2021, after its transmitter was destroyed by

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(Odette). During the time being, several of its programs were aired on its sister station under the interim name Bombo Radyo Star FM. It resumed operations on February 16, 2022, this time with a newly installed transmitter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dymf News and talk radio stations in the Philippines Radio stations in Metro Cebu Radio stations established in 1978