DZRB-AM
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| City | Quezon City, Philippines |
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| Broadcast area | Metro Manila, surrounding areas |
| Branding | Radyo ng Bayan (People's Radio) |
| Slogan |
Ang Radyo ng Bayan (The People's Radio) Konektado Ka! (You're Connected!) |
| Frequency | 738 kHz |
| First air date | May 1, 1933 |
| Format | news, public affairs/Talk, entertainment, music |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| Callsign meaning | Radyo ng Bayan |
| Former callsigns |
KZSO (1933-1944) KZFM (1944-1947) DZFM (1947-1987) |
| Former frequencies | 710 kHz (1933-1977) 918 kHz (1977-1996) |
| Owner | Philippine Broadcasting Service |
| Sister stations | Sports Radio 918, Radyo Magasin 1278, 87.5 FM1, 104.3 FM2, DZRP Radyo Pilipinas |
| Webcast | DZRB Radyo ng Bayan LIVE Audio |
| Website | PBS |
DZRB (738 AM) Radyo ng Bayan is an AM station owned and operated by Philippine Broadcasting Service in the Philippines. The station's studios are located in 4/F, PIA/Media Center Building, Visayas Avenue, Brgy. Vasra, Diliman, Quezon City, and its transmitter is located at Brgy Marulas, Valenzuela City. DZRB is the first radio station in the Philippines before the launch of DZRH.
Radyo ng Bayan is first oldest radio station in the Philippines, while the current "oldest" one is DZRH.
Radyo ng Bayan operates daily from 4 am to 12 mn. During Holy Week annually, Radyo ng Bayan leaves the air starting 12 mn of Maundy Thursday and resumes operations on Easter Sunday at 4:00 am.
On May 8, 1933, the United States-sponsored Insular Government established and operated radio station KZSO in the Philippines on the frequency of 710 kilohertz with a power of 10,000 watts through the United States Information Service. In 1946, the callsign was change to KZFM, named after Frederic Marquardt.
In September 1946, two months after the Philippines became an independent country from the U.S.A., KZFM was turned over to the Philippine government. With the transfer was born the Philippine Broadcasting Service, PBS the second broadcasting organization after Manila Broadcasting Company.
The station was first operated by the Department of Foreign Affairs until it was transferred to the Radio Broadcasting Board (RBB) which was created by President Manuel Quezon on September 3, 1937. Meanwhile, in the same year, an international telecommunications conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, reassigned the letter "D" to replace the former "K" as the initial call letter for all radio stations in the Philippines. In January 1942, the RBB was abolished to give way to the establishment of the Philippine Information Council (PIC) which then assumed the function of the RBB, including the operation of DZFM. In turn, the PIC was abolished on July 1, 1952, and since then, until the creation of the Department of Public Information (DPI) in 1959, DZFM and the Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) had been operated under the Office of the President.
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