DYRT-FM

DYRT (Barangay RT Cebu)
City	Cebu City
Broadcast area	Central and Eastern Visayas
Frequency	99.5 MHz
Branding	Barangay RT 99.5
Slogan	"Nindota-ah!"; "Forever!"
Programming
Format	Pop MOR, OPM, Hot talk
Affiliations	RGMA Network, Inc.
Ownership
Owner	GMA Network Inc.
Sister stations	GMA Super Radyo DYSS 999 Cebu; GMA TV-7 Cebu; GMA News TV 27 Cebu; GMA TV-51 Cebu
History
First air date	February 4, 1980
Call sign meaning	99.5 RT (former branding)
Technical information
Class	A/B/C/D/E
Power	25,000 watts
ERP	75,000 watts
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.gmanetwork.com

DYRT (99.5 FM) - on-air as Barangay RT 99.5 - is a commercial FM radio station owned by GMA Network Inc. in Cebu City, Philippines with its subsidiary RGMA. The station's studio are located at the GMA Skyview Complex, Nivel Hills, Apas, Cebu City, while its transmitter facilities are located at Mt. Busay, Brgy. Bonbon, Cebu City. It operates 24 hours a day, but it goes off the air from midnight of Monday until it resumes at 3:00 AM. It also goes off the air during Paschal Triduum of Holy Week at 12:00 MN, and resumes operations at Easter Sunday at 3:00 AM. DYRT serves as the first provincial FM station of RGMA in Cebu.

Barangay RT 99.5 logo (2014-2017)

This station is occasionally rated as the most-listened to FM radio station in Cebu City.[1][2]

History

Double 9.5 RT (1980-1995)

The station began its operations as Double 9.5 RT on February 4, 1980. At that time as an English-language radio station, it aired with Classic hits and news format and it expanded with the opening of DWDJ-FM 93.5 in Dagupan as The Giant 93.5 WDJ Dagupan (now Barangay FM 93.5 Dagupan under the callsign DWTL), which adopted the brand from the flagship station in Manila six years later.

Campus Radio/99.5 RT (1995-2014)

On March 1, 1995, due to the management of RGMA Network, Inc., the station was reformatted as Campus Radio 99.5 RT with their slogan "Forever!", using the English language. But in 1997, when Bobby Nalzaro took over the operations of GMA 7/RGMA Cebu, the station changed its slogan to "Nindota-Ah!", which was later adapted by several RGMA FM stations in Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, General Santos, Zamboanga & Butuan a year later when it changed its language to Cebuano dialect. The station switched to Contemporary MOR and OPM format. On July 29, 2002, it was changed its name to 99.5 RT, which coincides with the rebranding of DXRV 103.5 in Davao as 103.5 Wow FM Davao. Presently, the station's format is a masa type of format that broadcasts mostly Original Pilipino Music mixed with some international pop songs, new and old, and the DJ's speak in Cebuano. From 2013 to 2018, as conducted by Nielsen Radio Audience Measurement, 99.5 RT Cebu making the dominant overall Number 1 Radio Station in Cebu against other FM radio stations in the market.

Barangay RT 99.5 (2014-present)

On February 17, 2014, the station was changed its branding to Barangay RT 99.5 together with reformatted programs, new jingle & a new logo of the station and carried-over the slogan "Isang Bansa, Isang Barangay", as part of rebranding Campus Radio provincial stations and other branding of Radio GMA was rebranded and finally adopted the Barangay FM branding, which was originated and based from its main radio station in Manila Barangay LS 97.1 (except for Super Radyo DYRU 92.9 Kalibo which was reformatted as Barangay RU 92.9 Super Radyo Kalibo, a hybrid station of Barangay FM and Super Radyo), making it competing with its rival FM radio network My Only Radio, a station owned by the network's competitor ABS-CBN which relaunch seven months earlier on July 8, 2013. On December 18, 2017, Barangay RT 99.5 Cebu changed its logo into its current logo as part of a relaunch RGMA FM stations throughout the Philippines as Barangay FM Nationwide. In Year 2019 Bobby Nalzaro Simulcast Over Barangay RT 99.5 Cebu From Monday To Saturday 6:00am To 7:00am.

Areas of coverage

Barangay FM stations

gollark: How does everyone seem to know that?!

gollark: I then convince the spec writer people to add monadic IO.

gollark: For my future evil plan in which `async`/`await` syntax becomes do notation?

gollark: Too bad.

gollark: That *could* probably maybe just be added to `Promise.all` without making them !!NOT MONADS!!.

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8eZznZM3M

[2] ttp://radioonlinenow.com/2010/08/06/dyrt-99-5-rt-nindota-ah-is-cebus-new-number-1-fm-station/

Radio stations in the Metro Cebu market
By FM frequency	DYPC 88.7 DYDW 89.1 DYKI 89.9 DYAC 90.7 DYHR 91.5 DYBN 92.3 DYWF 93.1 DYXL 93.9 DYLL 94.7 DYMX 95.5 DYRK 96.3 DYLS 97.1 DYBU 97.9 DYFR 98.7 DYRT 99.5 DYRJ 100.3 DYIO 101.1 DYFM 101.9 DYES 102.7 DYCD 103.5 DYKJ 104.3² DYUR 105.1 DYBT 105.9 DYQC 106.7 DYNU 107.5 DYDT 107.9 (Carcar) Toledo DYBD 88.5 DYTD 92.7 DYNE 97.5 DY__ 100.7 DYRR 103.9 DYPN 104.7 DYAM 106.3 DYPE 107.1
By AM frequency	DYRB 540 DYMR 576 DYHP 612 DYRC 648 DYKC 675 DYAR 765 DYLA 909 DYMF 963 DYSS 999 DYCM 1152 DYRF 1215 DYFX 1305 DYXR 1395 DYAB 1512
HD digital radio	101.1-1 101.1-2 101.1-3
Internet-based	Aksyon Radyo U.S. NU 107 Cebu
Defunct call signs	DYAP-FM DYAY DYCB¹ DYCB-AM¹ DYDD DYEE-AM¹ DYES¹ DYET¹ DYEZ DYKT¹ DYLA-FM¹ DYMZ¹ DYNU¹ DYPN DYRH¹ DYNC¹ DYTO¹ DYWC¹ DYXR¹ KZRC¹ Pathway Radio³
Philippine radio markets Bacolod Baguio Batangas-Lipa Bayombong Bislig-Trento Bohol Borongan Butuan Cabanatuan Cagayan de Oro Calapan Calbayog-Catarman Catbalogan Cauayan-Santiago Cebu Cotabato City-Midsayap Daet Dagupan Davao Dipolog Dumaguete General Santos Iloilo Iligan Kalibo Kidapawan Koronadal-Surallah Laoag Legazpi Lucena-San Pablo Maasin-Sogod Malaybalay-Valencia Malita Masbate Mati Metro Manila Naga-Iriga North Cebu Olongapo-Subic Ozamiz-Oroquieta Pagadian Puerto Princesa Roxas San Fernando-Agoo (La Union) San Fernando-Angeles (Pampanga) San Francisco San Jose (Antique) San Jose (Occidental Mindoro) Sorsogon Sulu and Tawi-Tawi Surigao City Tacloban-Ormoc Tacurong-Isulan Tandag Tarlac Tuguegarao Vigan-Bangued Virac Western Laguna Zamboanga ¹Technically still active, but with new call letters and different intellectual property. ²Licensed low-power community station. ³Pirate station.