![]() ![]() 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. The news given is up to date, and asides from news there is a morning traffic update, that will help anyone heading either to work or to school to know the best ways to pass and where to avoid passing.At 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. Another is that although the station does give the different sides of an issue equal opportunity to present their case, the hosts are still human, and the station is owned by humans with their own agendas, that the occasional biased comment it let slip from the mouths of the hosts or the interviewees.ĭZMM is overall a good station to listen to in the morning if one was unable to read a newspaper, or was too lazy to actually read one. One failing of the station is not in content, per se, but the hosts sometimes mention videos or images, which to their radio audience is highly impossible to view unless, they use their imagination or they have a television set in their vicinity. The languages most commonly used on the show are Filipino an English, but as to which is used more prominently is unknown. ![]() The news is completely factual with the occasional use of sarcasm (but still factual), occasionally they have guests on air. Whoever has a radio or a television most likely does listen to or watches DZMM.Ī part or one of the segments or programs of the show is that the hosts read messages to the station, to other people, and greet listeners, they also give out free legal advice, and help the callers. This particular radio station not only makes use of the radio waves and that is also make use of television, its coverage area is vast. DZMM is also simulcast via The Filipino Channel and also has a television channel on Sk圜able named DZMM TeleRadyo where the studio and hosts of its programs can be seen by its listeners and viewers. At present, DZMM is considered as one of the top stations in the AM band in Metro Manila and is recognized as one of the most awarded radio stations in the Philippines. The station's studio is located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center in Quezon City, while its transmitter is located at Obando, Bulacan, and the station operates 24 hours a day. DZMM Radyo Patrol Sais-Trenta, 630 kHz Metro Manila, is the flagship AM station of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation in the Philippines.
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