DWLS
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| City | Quezon City, Philippines |
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| Broadcast area |
Metro Manila, surrounding areas Worldwide (online) |
| Branding | Barangay LS 97.1 |
| Slogan |
Tugstugan Na! Isang Bansa, Isang Barangay! Nationwide Na! (Used for Nationwide Programming) Isang Pamilyang Tayo sa Barangay |
| Frequency | 97.1 MHz |
| First air date | 1955 (on AM) 1976 (on FM) |
| Format | Contemporary MOR, OPM |
| Power | 30,000 watts |
| ERP | 66,000 watts |
| Class | C, D, E |
| Callsign meaning | Loreto Stewart |
| Former callsigns | DZXX (1955-1972) |
| Former frequencies | 890 kHz (1955-1972) |
| Affiliations | RGMA |
| Owner | GMA Network |
| Sister stations | GMA Super Radyo DZBB 594 |
| Website | www |
DWLS (branded as Barangay LS 97.1) is a commercial radio station which broadcasts an OPM and Top 40 (CHR) format. Since February 2014, it serves as the flagship FM station of RGMA (Radio GMA Network, Inc.), a subsidiary of GMA Network Inc. in the Philippines under the Barangay FM brand. The station's studio is located at the GMA Network Center Complex, EDSA corner Timog Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, and its transmitter is located at Barangay Culiat, Tandang Sora, Quezon City, Philippines.
It first aired in 1955, when "Uncle Bob" Stewart opened the DZXX-AM 890 kHz station, the first pop music station in the country on AM format.
On September 1, 1976, GMA launched DWLS-FM on 97.1 as an MOR station. It lasted until February 28, 1986, a few days after the EDSA Revolution when The Giant 97.1 WLS-FM was born and CHR format is introduced.
When GMA was renamed as the "Rainbow Satellite Network" in the early 1992, the station was reformatted on April 30, 1992 as Campus Radio 97.1 WLS-FM. This was to target teens & early adults. Its notable programs were the longest-running program on the station, the legendary "Top 20 at 12": where the top 20 songs of the day were counted down in the mold of BBC Radio 1's The Official Chart Show at noontime, and "Campus Aircheck", an institution of sorts for aspiring DJs to get hired by Campus Radio, touted as "the first school on the air".
Despite Campus Radio's dominant ratings performance in the pop category, GMA's FM radio sales unit failed to sell the format. With consistently low sales figures, this paved the way for Mike Enriquez to successfully persuade the network's upper management to agree to shift WLS to a seemingly more profitable "masa" format.
Last January 16, 2008 at around 6 pm, the station launched its new tagline, Ayos!, which is also the tagline for RGMA's provincial Campus Radio stations.
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