History of Radio and TV Broadcasting in the Philippines

2. 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.

3. • 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..

4. • Two years into the experiment,
Hermann replaced the experimental
stations with a 100-watt station with
the call letters KZKZ.
• On October 4, 1924, with KZKZ but
a few months old, he sold it to the
Radio Corporation of the
Philippines (RCP)

5. 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.

6. • 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

10. German name of
GERMANY

12. 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.

13. In 1929
KZRC, Radio Cebu,
opened in Cebu and
introduced radio
broadcasting in the
province.

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

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

17. 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.

18. 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

19. February 6, 1942
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.

20. October 20 and 23, 1944
A temporary
shortwave relay
station was
established in Manila
with the call sign
PIAM and PIRM during
the war.

21. After the
War

22. 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.

23. 1947
KZFM, renamed DZFM,
became the nucleus of
the Philippine
Broadcasting System.

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27. • 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.