Love Radio
TypeBroadcast radio network
Country
Philippines
Programming
FormatContemporary MOR, OPM
Affiliations
  • Broadcast licensees within the MBC Media Group:
  • Cebu Broadcasting Company
  • Pacific Broadcasting System
  • Philippine Broadcasting Corporation
Ownership
OwnerMBC Media Group
History
Founded1949 (1949)
Coverage
AvailabilityNationwide
Links
Webcastloveradio.com.ph/radio
Websiteloveradio.com.ph

Love Radio is a broadcast FM radio network in the Philippines owned by MBC Media Group. Its headquarters are located at Cultural Center of the Philippine Complex, Pasay, Manila. The network's original format is easy-listening from 1975 until 2000 when Love Radio shifted to Contemporary MOR or more popularly known as the masa format.[1]

Its flagship station is DZMB in Metro Manila (licensed to Cebu Broadcasting Company), which has been rated as #1 in the FM radio ratings for 15 years (from 2002 to 2017), according to the KBP's Radio Research Council Surveys[2][3] and AC Nielsen Car Survey.

History

Love Radio was previously known by its call letters DZMB (Previously broadcasting under call letters KZRH back in 1949) when it began broadcasts on the FM band in 1975 from its first broadcast days on the AM band. Back then, it played mainstream pop, later relegating to easy listening music. As DZMB, it also introduced and institutionalized the deep-voiced radio announcers. In the 1980s, Manuelito F. Luzon, then station manager of DZMB, conceptualized the station's branding identity.[4][5][6]

In the 2000s, Love Radio was reformatted to a contemporary masa, a format that was trending on the landscape of FM radio in the country which was started by rival stations since the dawn of the new millennium.[7]

Roster

DJs

As of February 14, 2024:[8]

Former DJs

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2023)

Love Radio stations

Main article: List of MBC Media Group stations § Love Radio

See also

References

  1. ^ The Manila Times (May 23, 2007). Listen to the new Love Radio. p. 15. Retrieved July 7, 2023 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ MBC Sales and Promotion - LOVE RADIO: 9 YEARS OF BEING #1 Retrieved on 03-11-09.
  3. ^ The Manila Times Internet Edition | LIFE & TIMES > Listen to the new Love Radio Archived April 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 05-23-07.
  4. ^ "Win Radio ranks sixth among Metro Manila radio stations". Philippine Entertainment Portal. September 27, 2011.
  5. ^ Baquisal, Yui (July 11, 2011). "Changing of the guards". The Philippine Star.
  6. ^ Baquisal, Yui (April 18, 2011). "No double meaning songs on air". The Philippine Star.
  7. ^ Jeffrey O. Vaslino (February 25, 2011). "The changing landscape of FM radio". BusinessWorld.
  8. ^ "Kabisyo - Love Radio Manila".
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