FBS Radio Network is a

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broadcasting company. Its corporate office is located at Unit 908, Paragon Plaza,

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History

Leonida "Nida" Laki-Vera and her husband Luis Vera began their broadcast business as the Freedom Broadcasting System (FBS) in the 1970s. FBS launched its first station

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. A year later, FBS established its FM station

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, which is later on known as Mellow Touch. Radio personalities such as Butch Gonzales, Rudolph Rivera, and newscaster Ernie Fresnido worked for DWBL and Mellow Touch throughout the late 70s. As time passed by towards the 1990s, the couple transferred the ownership of FBS to their children, namely Luis Jr. ("Luigi") and Lena. To coincide their business, the network dropped its legal name and became FBS Radio Network. Under the new owners, FBS expanded the Mellow Touch network in key provincial cities. In 2004, FBS sold its two respective stations DWKT (Dagupan) and DYLL (Cebu) to

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. In return, UBSI sold its AM station DWSS to FBS, which uses the franchise of Supreme Broadcasting System to comply with ownership restrictions. On December 21, 2020, FBS was granted a 25-year legislative franchise extension under Republic Act No. 11507, which lapsed into law after 30 days of inaction by then-

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. The law grants FBS a franchise to construct, install, operate, and maintain, for commercial purposes, radio broadcasting stations and television stations, including digital television systems, with the corresponding facilities such as relay stations, throughout the Philippines.

FBS Radio Stations

AM stations

FM stations

Former stations

References

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