In June 1922, a couple of 50-watt radio stations were established in Pasay and in Manila by Henry Hermann.

During that time, the Filipinos readily accepted radio news and entertainment programs, and local businessmen, who recognized its profitability, established their own radio stations to advertise their products and services.

• In 1924 an American established the first AM radio station named KZKZ.

HENRY HERMANN------was the founder of the Electrical Supply Company (Manila). He gained permission, possibly from local government and the military to operate more than one station..

•Two years into the experiment, Two years into the experiment, Hermann replaced the experimental Hermann replaced the experimental stations with a 100-watt station with stations with a 100-watt station with the call letters KZKZ.the call letters KZKZ.

• On October 4, On October 4, 19241924, with KZKZ , with KZKZ but a few months old, he sold it but a few months old, he sold it to the Radio Corporation of the to the Radio Corporation of the Philippines (RCP)Philippines (RCP)

In 1929, KZRC, Radio Cebu, opened in Cebu and introduced radio broadcasting in the province. However, it was closed down because shortwave relay signals were unsuccessful between Cebu and Manila. It reopened after a decade and fearlessly went on air with the guerilla movements.

•At first, sponsors did not directly advertise their products but mentioned only their names as sponsor of particular shows, or titled the shows after their product, for example Klim Musical Quiz or The Listerine Amateur Hour. 

Created in 1931

The board examined applications for licenses to operate radio, allocated band frequencies, and conducted inspections for the office of the Secretary of Commerce and Industry

Originally, as a colony of the USA, four letter call signs beginning with KZ-- were in use.

Francisco Koko Trinidad, known as the Father of Philippine Broadcasting attended the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in 1947, held in Atlantic City in the US.

German name of GERMANY

In 1924 the first two call letters “KZ” was assigned to all radio stations in the Philippines in accordance with the laws of the United States of America.

In 1929

KZRC, Radio Cebu, opened in Cebu and introduced radio broadcasting in the province.

In 1931 the Radio Control Division was established. It was the regulatory body of the broadcast industry.

DURING During the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and when Japanese airplanes bombed Manila, six commercial radio stations were established.

On December 28, 1941

The United States provided a shortwave relay station in the Philippines and beamed to the five radio stations in Manila and to the radio station in Cebu.

January 2, 1942

A similar shortwave relay station was provided for a few more days by the navy wireless station but was destroyed when the Japanese forces attack Cavite

Gen Emilio Aguinaldo, in a broadcast over the Japanese controlled KZRH, urged General MacArthur to surrender in view of the obvious superiority of Japanese arms.

February 6, 1942

A temporary shortwave relay station was established in Manila with the call sign PIAM and PIRM during the war.

October 20 and 23, 1944

After the War

When World War II was over, KZFM was the first radio station to return on the air. It reopened in May 1945 and was operated by the US Army Office of War Information.

1947KZFM, renamed DZFM,

became the nucleus of the Philippine Broadcasting System.

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BROADCASTING IMEMBERS:

•The Philippines' history in terms of a free press is a checkered past. In the beginning, the news was censored by the Americans. Later under the Americans, the Philippines press was open and free-wheeling before martial law was imposed under President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972.