![]() ![]() This was the second major news event as a progenitor to the current Radyo Patrol, and this time DZAQ took on the mammoth task of informing the nation live as it happened. This strong earthquake lead to the collapse of the Ruby Tower in the capital's downtown districts. Then came the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Casiguran (in which Manila was severely affected by that quake). The broadcasts were a huge victory for the corporation and for its news service. Cesar Mortega was assigned to coordinate the broadcasts. DZXL became the carrying station with then current DJs Naldy Castro, Buddy Medina, Boots Baker, Mary Jane Madamba and even the late Ike Lozada alternating as anchors. Combi One had Al Mendez and Zoilo Paragas Jr as reporters and Combi 2 with Bar Samson. Using two VW Combis attached with a UHF transmitter, two teams of reporters were dispatched. Ben Aniceto then Program manager and Chief Engr Emil Solidum created a solution to broadcast typhoon damage news from Manila and the surrounding areas. The first and original Radyo Patrol team was unceremoniously organized following the aftermath of the 1967 Typhoon Yoling at the old ABS-CBN Radio Broadcast Center in Aduana Street, Intramuros, Manila, which housed the station since it was moved in 1958. Orly Mercado, who was one of the station managers from 1969 to 1971, together with Ben Aniceto, came up with a vision to establish a 24-hour all-news and all-talk radio station and ABS-CBN conceptualized it under the Radyo Patrol brand - the de facto successor of the ephemeral 24 hour news station DZQL Radyo Reloj, which CBN launched in 1956, and the first ever 24-hour news radio station in the country and in Southeast Asia. Years later, when ABS and CBN were formally merged into a single network in 1967, DZAQ 620 kHz switched frequencies with CBN-owned DZXL 960 kHz and was later rebranded as DZAQ Radyo Patrol 960 kHz, one of the pre-martial law flagship AM stations of ABS-CBN until 1972. Its first radio studios were in Manila, sharing the same building with the television studios. Eddie Ilarde, Ike Lozada, German Moreno and Joey de Leon were the personalities of the station at that time. ![]() DZAQ 620 kHz featured news, variety and music programs on an AM format which then the progenitor of DZAQ-TV 3. ![]() It began on Octowhen DZAQ, the forerunner of DZMM was the first radio station of the former ABS (Alto Broadcasting System) of the Quirinos under President Elpidio Quirino's brother, Antonio (originally came from the pre-1953 experimental station DZBC), opened its doors as a radio station using the Filipino language in its broadcasts, following what DZBC had done before as the first ever radio station in Manila using Filipino instead of the English language used by other stations at that time. History Radyo Patrol's first literation: the early years 1.11 2017–present: TeleRadyo's 10th anniversary, expansion of programming. ![]()
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