DZBR
| Broadcast area | Batangas-Southern Metro Manila |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 531 kHz |
| Branding | DZBR 531 Bible Radio |
| Programming | |
| Format | Religious broadcasting Music, Talk, |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| History | |
First air date | 1981 (as Radyo Balisong) March 2017 (as Bible Radio) |
Call sign meaning | Bible Radio |
| Technical information | |
| Class | B-Provincial |
| Power | 10,000 watts |
| ERP | 30 kW |
| Links | |
| Website | Bible Radio Online |
DZBR,[1] (531 kHz Tanauan, Batangas) Bible Radio[2] is a religious broadcasting station in the Philippines owned by the Allied Broadcasting Center Inc. and operated by the Cathedral of Praise. Its studios are located at 350 Taft Avenue, Manila, and its transmitter is located at the Angel One Tower, Tanauan, Batangas, where it shares COP remote broadcast facilities, while its omnidirectional broadcast range covers Batangas and Metro Manila. DZBR is licensed to operate daily from 5:00 AM to 12:00 MN. but airs 24/7 via online and mobile application streaming.
Under the current ownership, DZBR is the third broadcasting station to hold the distinction of being the sole AM station in the Batangas radio market, after DWAM 1080 (now DWAL 95.9) and the now-defunct DWAW 999.
Prior history of the 531 AM spot
531 kHz, the low-end spot on the AM band after the 1979 switch of the Philippine AM dial from the NARBA-mandated 10 kHz spacing to the 9 kHz rule implemented by the Geneva protocol was heavily skipped as it was not positioned by the KBP for radio station licensees, making 558 kHz the required low-end of its Metro Manila AM frequency assignment.
Station history
As a Batangas Capitol station
DZBR was inaugurated as Radyo Balisong of the Kumintang Broadcasting System in 1981 and served as a full service station. It displaced the Church-operated DWAM 1080 kHz as the sole AM station in the Batangas radio market. Veteran local radio personalities such as Beting Mauhay and Grace Beredo were mainstays of the station, [3] as well as neophytes Renz Belda and Larry Karangalan who both had later successes in the field.
In 2002, at the same time as DWAM 1080, Radyo Balisong closed shop due to cost-cutting measures and competition from FM stations. Belda is currently with DZRH and DWAL-FM while Karangalan currently works with Radyo Natin Padre Garcia.
Under Cathedral of Praise
In mid 2016, DZBR secured its operations permit from the National Telecommunications Commission to return on the air under new ownership. Teasers of the new station were already posted as early as August 2016 while procuring its materials and assembling its hybrid feeds from Tanauan and Manila. DZBR returned on the air on January 2017 as a test broadcast before its full launch two months later. Programs of the Cathedral of Praise are fed on a hybrid pattern from Manila and Tanauan, respectively at different times of the day.