Philippine Broadcasting Service

Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Type	Public (Government)
Industry	Broadcast radio network
Predecessor	Bureau of Broadcasts (1972-1986)
Founded	May 1, 1933
Headquarters	Quezon City, Philippines
Key people	Rizal Giovanni "Bong" Aportadera, Jr. (Director General)
Owner	Philippine government (Presidential Communications Office)
Number of employees	509
Website	www.pbs.gov.ph

Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) (Filipino: Paglilingkod Panghimpapawid ng Pilipinas) is a radio network in the Philippines. It is owned by the Philippine government under the Presidential Communications Office.

History

On May 8, 1933, the United States-sponsored Insular Government established and operated radio station DZFM (then KZFM) in the Philippines on the frequency of 710 kilocycles with a power of 10,000 watts through the United States Information Service. 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.

Over the years hence, the PBS had acquired 13 more radio stations, one TV station which it time-shared with two other organizations, and changed its name to Bureau of Broadcast Services.

At the same time that the BB was blazing a broadcasting trail now known as "network broadcasting", another government organization was building up its broadcast capability to rival, or in some instances, to complement, that of the BB. The National Media Production Center, NMPC, had acquired the facilities of the Voice of America in Malolos, Bulacan in 1965 and steadily brought the old complex up to standards by a steady overhaul, fine-tuning, and outright replacement of outmoded equipment and machines. The NMPC operated the Voice of the Philippines, VOP, on both medium wave-918 kHz and shortwave 9.810 mHz transmissions. In 1975, the NMPC obtained DWIM-FM. With this new station and some provincial stations that came under its wings earlier, the NMPC was a network and effectively covered a wide range of the Philippine listenership.

Public broadcasting in the Philippines was thus represented by the BB and the NMPC and catered to the educational and cultural needs of its audiences while endeavoring to keep it entertained with fare from indigenous material. Public service features were the keystone of its programs.

The BB and the NMPC were brought under one administrative roof in 1980 when the Office of Media Affairs was created to provide a loose union for both networks within the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center along Bohol (now Sgt. Esguerra) Avenue in Quezon City. It was not an ideal situation, to say the least, since, as there had been no clear guidelines on the proper implementation of their respective operational strategies, the BB and the NMPC often squabbled, to the detriment of public broadcasting goals.

After the EDSA Revolution, the Office of Media Affairs was abolished, followed by the NMPC, and finally, the BB (in turn, reestablished as Philippine Broadcasting Service-Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS), created through an Executive Order No. 297). In their stead was a plan, a vision, for one, single government broadcasting organization that would not be an echo device for the government, or much less, for any one man, but would instead dedicate itself to the service of the people through honest, balanced, and meaningful broadcasting.

That lay the blueprints and groundwork of the Bureau of Broadcast Services.

During Aquino administration, PBS transferred its office from ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center complex to PIA/Media Center Building in Visayas Avenue, Quezon City.

During his first State of the Nation Address, President Rodrigo Duterte will pass a law merging PBS with its TV counterpart, People's Television Network into the "People's Broadcasting Corporation (PBC)".

Radyo ng Bayan's platform

Radio ng Bayan is situated at 738 kHz on the AM band with a power of 50 kW, and operates 20 hours daily from 4 am to 12 mn under the Philippine Broadcasting Service - Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS), Presidential Communications Office. As the government's flagship radio station it serves as a medium of development communication, a conduit between the government and the people, aiming to mobilize all sectors of society towards development and nationalism. Live government news is aired here.

PBS Stations in the Philippines

Radyo ng Bayan

Non-RNB stations

Affliate stations

Short-wave Stations (Radyo Pilipinas)

See also

• People's Television Network
• Filipinas, Ahora Mismo
• List of radio stations in the Philippines

External links

• PBS Website
• Live Streaming for PBS Stations in Metro Manila

Presidential Communications Office
Offices	Presidential Spokesman Development and Strategic Planning
Key Divisions	Philippine Information Agency Philippine News Agency Presidential News Desk Radio - Television Malacanang Bureau of Communication Services National Printing Office APO Production Unit OP Web Development Office
Media networks	Radio Philippines Network (20%)1 RPN 9 Manila Other stations People's Television PTV 4 Manila Other stations IBC IBC 13 Manila Other stations PBS Radyo ng Bayan Sports Radio Radyo Magasin Business Radio Radyo Pilipinas Other stations
1Broadcasting CNN Philippines, operated by Nine Media Corporation

Radio networks in the Philippines
Major networks	Aliw DWIZ 882 97.9 Home Radio Bombo Radyo ABS-CBN DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 MOR 101.9 Brigada News FM RGMA Network Barangay LS 97.1 Super Radyo DZBB 594 MBC DZRH Love Radio Cebu(Easy Rock) Pacific(Aksyon Radyo and Yes FM) MBSI PBC(UNTV) UNTV Radio La Verdad 1350 Wish 107.5 Quest RBN RJ 100.3 DZRJ 810 AM RMN DZXL 558 93.9 iFM RPN SBN TV5 92.3 News FM UBSI
State-owned networks	PBS Radyo ng Bayan 738 IBC
Minor networks	EBC DZEC Radyo Agila 1062 Pinas FM 95.5 MBNI
Religious networks	CMN Radio Veritas 846 CEBSI INC Radio 954 DBS FEBC Philippines NDBC SMNI DZAR 1026 Sonshine Radio UCB Philippines(The Edge Radio) ZOE Broadcasting Network DZJV
Regional networks	ABS-CBN My Only Radio Radyo Patrol Apollo Pampanga CLBC Pampanga RGMA Network Super Radyo Barangay FM MBC Hot FM Radyo Natin MBI PBC Palawan PBN Bicol RadioCorp RPN Radyo Ronda SBC Zambales TV5 Radyo5 Viva/Ultimate Oomph! Radio
Campus radio networks	Adamson University Falcon Radio Station Ateneo de Manila University Magis Radio De La Salle University DWSU Green FM Silliman University Silliman NetRadio University of the Philippines DZUP DZLB DYUP UP-FM Radio University of Santo Tomas UST Tiger Radio
Internet networks	Campus Radio Online Dream FM Network MBC Aksyon Radyo U.S. My Only Radio Live Streaming Radio Pilipinas Sutton Radio
Shortwave	Radio Veritas Radyo Pilipinas
HD Radio	iFM 93.9-2 FM Top 40 Hits iFM 93.9-3 FM Classic Hits MOR 101.9-2 Hits MOR 101.9-3 Easy Listening
DTH satellite	TFC Direct! DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 MOR 101.9
Defunct	Baycomms Broadcasting Corporation