With the switch of AM spacing from 10 to 9 kHz that took place between 19, DWWW moved from 620 to 630 AM and gained a new home in Broadcast City in Diliman, Quezon City. Under the Marcos crony control, the station was dubbed Pinakamatatag sa Buong Pilipinas ( The strongest in the Philippines). Two years after the forced shut down of all radio and television stations, DDely Magpayo and Noli de Castro, was also part of the announcers of the station. However, on the night of September 23, 1972, DZAQ, DZXL, DZYK-FM, DZAQ-TV and DZXL-TV along with 4 other ABS-CBN AM radio stations were halted as Metrocom forces seized ABS-CBN Broadcasting Centre two days after President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, even DZAQ/DZXL personalities were arrested because of strict censorship as it went off the air. This was the first major news event as a progenitor to the current Radyo Patrol. The first reporters assigned as Radyo Patrol were Al Mendez, Zolio Paragas and Bar Samson. It was the brainchild of former station manager Orly Mercado, Ben Aniceto, the then ABS-CBN program director and Chief Engr. The first and original Radyo Patrol team was unceremoniously organized following the aftermath of the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Casiguran (in which Metro Manila was severely affected by the quake), leading to the collapse of the Ruby Tower in 1968 at the old ABS-CBN Radio Broadcast Center in Aduana Street, Intramuros, Manila. Orly Mercado was one of the station managers from 1969 to 1971. Years later, when ABS and CBN were formally merged into a single network in 1967, DZAQ 620 kHz switched frequencies with CBN-owned DZXL 960 kHz to become DZAQ Radyo Patrol 960 kHz, one of the pre- martial law flagship AM stations of ABS-CBN until 1972. DZAQ 620 kHz featured news, variety and music programs on an AM format which then the basis of DZAQ-TV 3. It began on October 19, 1953, DZAQ, the forerunner of DZMM was the first radio station of the former ABS (Alto Broadcasting System) of the Quirinos under President Elpidio Quirino's brother, Antonio (originally came from the pre-1953 experimental station DZBC). The station also manages and operates a website, (now /dzmm/home) and social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Some of the station's weekday programming is also simulcast via DYAP Radyo Patrol 765 in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. It can also be received in the United States on DirecTV Channel 2066. #ABS CBN DZMM RADYO PATROL 630 TV#ContentsĪt present, DZMM is considered, and remains to be one of the top stations in the AM band in Metro Manila (#1 in Vehicle Coincidental Survey for AM stations and Kantar Radio Ratings) and is recognized as one of the most awarded radio stations in the Philippines by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas, Rotary Club of Manila, Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption and other award giving bodies.ĭZMM is also simulcast via The Filipino Channel and also has a television channel aired on Sky Cable, Destiny Cable and Sky Direct and as an exclusive news channel on digital free TV via ABS-CBN TVplus named DZMM TeleRadyo where the studio and hosts of its programs can be seen by its listeners and viewers. South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City, while its 50,000 watt transmitter is located at F. Esguerra Avenue, corner of Mother Ignacia St., Brgy. The station's studio is located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center, Sgt. It is the flagship station of the Radyo Patrol Network owned by ABS-CBN. DZMM (630 AM) - operating as ABS-CBN DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 - is a 24-hour Filipino language news/talk radio station broadcasting out of Quezon City, Philippines, serving the Mega Manila market.
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