Operated by the SBMA under the franchise of the state-run Philippine Broadcasting Service, DWSB 89.5 Subic Bay Radio was established in 2004 to serve as a medium for promoting the Subic Bay Freeport Zone as an investment and tourism haven, and at the same time provide radio services for the community of Subic Bay Freeport and its contiguous areas.
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The Resurrection of 89.5 Subic Bay FM
We're BACK! Finally, after several excruciating months of trying to rescusitate Subic Bay Freeport's official FM radio station, DWSB 89.5 Subic BayFM is now back on air! How we were able to do it was like some miracle of sorts.
Surprised? I know you are, or haven't you noticed why this blog only has new music lists and featured artists in its past few posts...well, we sort of died, temporarily. Long story really, but here goes:
It took a lot of prodding, and surprisingly, the wrath of mother nature that made this happen. Months have passed since our last broadcast. Us radio geeks were really having a hard time trying to convince a lot of people to just purchase our equipment real fast after our old, virtually low-powered set up was taken away leaving this station in the backburner. A new consultant was hired, a new agreement was forged with the mother network for the procurement of our equipment, and we really thought that everything will turn out the way we expected it to be even as we know how utterly snail-paced government processes can be.
Then typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng happened, two powerful storms that left majority of Luzon in total destruction. During that time, a huge advertising congress was about to happen in Baguio City. But then its organizers decided to change the venue and decided to go for Subic Bay.
With only a few weeks left, our agency worked overtime to prepare for the event - roads were paved and painted on, the convention center prepped and, the clincher for us geeks: 89.5 Bay FM was ordered to go back on air at all cost (being that the radio station is also going to be exhibited at the AdCon).
With absolutely no room for me to get all stressed, us geeks set out to immediately get ourselves even the basic equipment for us to operate the station again. Emergency procurement was the ticket. A lot of people came in to help us out (thank you all so much!) and in just barely a week and in time for the 21st Philippine Advertising Congress, we were back on air!
After finally upping our test broadcast, we rushed to the AdCon's exhibition area, installed a small set up at the Subic Bay booth and did our thing.
Whew! I bet reading this could have also stressed you out.
But then, this is only the beginning (a new beginning, that is). Still got loads to do and we do hope that starting today, 89.5 Subic Bay FM will NEVER leave the airwaves.
And the Bay FM saga continues...
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89.5 FM Subic Bay Radio
Surprised? I know you are, or haven't you noticed why this blog only has new music lists and featured artists in its past few posts...well, we sort of died, temporarily. Long story really, but here goes:
It took a lot of prodding, and surprisingly, the wrath of mother nature that made this happen. Months have passed since our last broadcast. Us radio geeks were really having a hard time trying to convince a lot of people to just purchase our equipment real fast after our old, virtually low-powered set up was taken away leaving this station in the backburner. A new consultant was hired, a new agreement was forged with the mother network for the procurement of our equipment, and we really thought that everything will turn out the way we expected it to be even as we know how utterly snail-paced government processes can be.
Then typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng happened, two powerful storms that left majority of Luzon in total destruction. During that time, a huge advertising congress was about to happen in Baguio City. But then its organizers decided to change the venue and decided to go for Subic Bay.
With only a few weeks left, our agency worked overtime to prepare for the event - roads were paved and painted on, the convention center prepped and, the clincher for us geeks: 89.5 Bay FM was ordered to go back on air at all cost (being that the radio station is also going to be exhibited at the AdCon).
With absolutely no room for me to get all stressed, us geeks set out to immediately get ourselves even the basic equipment for us to operate the station again. Emergency procurement was the ticket. A lot of people came in to help us out (thank you all so much!) and in just barely a week and in time for the 21st Philippine Advertising Congress, we were back on air!
After finally upping our test broadcast, we rushed to the AdCon's exhibition area, installed a small set up at the Subic Bay booth and did our thing.
Whew! I bet reading this could have also stressed you out.
But then, this is only the beginning (a new beginning, that is). Still got loads to do and we do hope that starting today, 89.5 Subic Bay FM will NEVER leave the airwaves.
And the Bay FM saga continues...
Want to follow BayFM's life? Join us in Facebook!
89.5 FM Subic Bay Radio
BayFM Sights and Sounds of New Year Celebration 09 in Subic Bay
All photos taken from the New Year Celebration held at the Boardwalk, Subic Bay Freeport.
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1st row: Olongapo City local band Bojo and the Aztecs
2nd row: Bojo's axemen; the girls of PYT
3rd row: Bojo guitarist amid blue fog; Pretty Young Things on stage; host BernieMac of BayFM
4th row: crowd by the beach and backstage
All BayFM photos courtesy of John Co (shot with Canon 5d mark2). All rights reserved.
The Vietnam Radio Visit and Quality Time with Big Brother
Last Friday, us Bay FM radio geeks were part of the entourage that welcomed radio colleagues from the Voice of Vietnam. Our group, the SBMA Corporate Communications, played host to the 9-member delegation which was accompanied by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP), the regulatory body of the Philippines' broadcast industry, led by its Operations & Administrative Manager Ms. Nora Villanueva. We had the chance to mingle and talk to them a bit (with the help of a lady interpreter) over lunch at the Subic Bay Yacht Club and then dinner at the Golden Dragon Resto. In between said meals, the party was treated to a tour of the Freeport courtesy of the SBMA Tourism Department.
Though it was just a brief visit by our friends from Vietnam's public radio (most of whom are probably in their late 40s and 50s, to the chagrin of the very young lady Vietnamese interpreter), Ate Nora said they did have a blast. I spent most of my time talking with KBP since we, especially Ate Nora, have mutual friends in the industry and we just blabbered away like old friends. Eman, the other KBP guy, found a music ally in me when he discovered I was an 80s kid. He gleefully played 80s new wave over his cellphone and challenged me to a game of name that tune.
It was during dinner when we talked about the state of affairs in Philippine Radio...the current trends and changes in FM formats, the rankings of radio stations, the hiring and firing of deejays and executives, and cases of indecent language slapped by the KBP against certain broadcast companies and jocks (yes, we do have our own Howard Sterns here).
Overall, it was an interesting (and educational) day for us radio geeks. It's not everyday when we are visited by fellow Asian radio geeks and get to keep tabs with Big Brother's folks. Well, we need to go out of that bomb shelter of a booth sometime, right?
Though it was just a brief visit by our friends from Vietnam's public radio (most of whom are probably in their late 40s and 50s, to the chagrin of the very young lady Vietnamese interpreter), Ate Nora said they did have a blast. I spent most of my time talking with KBP since we, especially Ate Nora, have mutual friends in the industry and we just blabbered away like old friends. Eman, the other KBP guy, found a music ally in me when he discovered I was an 80s kid. He gleefully played 80s new wave over his cellphone and challenged me to a game of name that tune.
It was during dinner when we talked about the state of affairs in Philippine Radio...the current trends and changes in FM formats, the rankings of radio stations, the hiring and firing of deejays and executives, and cases of indecent language slapped by the KBP against certain broadcast companies and jocks (yes, we do have our own Howard Sterns here).
Overall, it was an interesting (and educational) day for us radio geeks. It's not everyday when we are visited by fellow Asian radio geeks and get to keep tabs with Big Brother's folks. Well, we need to go out of that bomb shelter of a booth sometime, right?
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