DYSR (95.1 FM), broadcasting as SR95, is a

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owned and operated by the

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. It is part of the Magic Nationwide network. Its studio and transmitter are located at Camp SEA Site, Brgy. Banilad,

Dumaguete Dumaguete, officially the City of Dumaguete (; ; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, component city and capital of the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it h ...

. The station broadcasts daily from 5:30 AM to 12:00 MN.

History

DYSR-AM

1950-1975: Beginnings

The station began as DYSR-AM as a test broadcast on July 1, 1950, beginning only two hours of broadcasting time in the evening, following the approval of House Bill #896 to establish DYSR. At that time, the station was owned by

Silliman University Silliman University (also referred to as Silliman or SU) is a private, Protestant, and research university located in Dumaguete City, Philippines. Established in 1901 as Silliman Institute by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, it is ...

as a

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and non-profit educational station. Operating at 840

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, the station at that time also operates as a

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station, operating at 6055 kilocycles on the 49 meter band. The station would continue test broadcasts following the initial July 1 broadcast, with the notable extension of broadcasting hours and additional programming, until it was inaugurated on August 26, 1950.The July 8 issue of '' The Weekly Sillimanian'' mentions August 27, 1950, the eve of Silliman's founding, the inaugural date, while it was moved to August 26. Its initial staff of DYSR-AM includes Roy Bell as the director of DYSR, Abby Jacobs as the

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and Eliseo Araneta leading the

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of DYSR. Silliman's faculty working as part-time staff of programming includes Mary Reese as

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, Boyd Bell as director of farm programming and Justice Venancio Aldecoa (1926–December 14, 2017) as assistant director of farm programming. The latter later became the president of Silliman University from 1983 to 1986. DYSR-AM became one of the notable firsts in Dumaguete radio when the station was launched, having notable in the following: *The first radio station to launch in Dumaguete. (Launched on August 26, 1950) *The first to be broadcast in

. *The first to air a

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as part of the programming schedule. *The first to air select programming in English and in Cebuano DYSR studios and its AM and shortwave

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at launch were located at the Guy Hall at Silliman University, where the College of Mass Communication was also located before moving to the Emilio T. Yap Hall in 2011. It was then later moved to Camp SEA Site in Banilad.

1975-2006: Later years

DYSR-AM was notable for relaying what's known to be the city's first night flight on March 29, 1975, that led a Fairchild C-123K Provider aircraft landing safely in Sibulan Airport. At that time, the airport did not have runway lights until it was installed 42 years later. The provincial

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headquarters relayed announcements through this station to car owners to go to the airport and light the runway using

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, which various car owners responded to the announcement. The announcement on this station gave

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Eugene Malahay and co-pilot Antonio Paulin time to land the aircraft safely into the airport. In 1979 or in 1980, when the Philippines switched from the

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or NARBA-assigned 10 kHz to the

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-assigned 9 kHz, DYSR-AM switched frequencies from 840 kHz to 891 kHz. It went off the air sometime in 2006.

DYSR-FM

1992–2005: Early years

DYSR-FM, in the other hand, was launched in 1992, monikered as "Sweet Rhythms". Throughout its early years as DYSR-FM, various monikers including "Metro Radio" and the first tenure of "SR95", which was then re-used in 2014. It would become the last FM station to launch in Dumaguete until in 2013, when DYMD began doing FM operations.

2005–2007: Wild FM

In 2005, the

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's broadcasting arm, UMBN, took over the station's operations and rebranded as 95.1 Wild FM. The agreement with UMBN ended in 2007.

2007–present: Killerbee/Magic

In 2007,

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took over the station's operations and rebranded as KillerBee 95.1. In 2013, as part of the rebranding of all Quest provincial stations to be aligned with its Manila station, the station was renamed as Magic 95.1. In the first quarter of 2014, the station reverted its branding back to SR95, albeit retaining its format and affiliation with Quest.

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References

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