89 DMZ Danze Muzic Zone was a music FM station from November 1988 until November 2000 and it was owned and operated by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation

Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation

Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation is a Philippine VHF television network of the Government Communications Group headed by the Press Secretary. Its studios are located at Broadcast City, Old Balara, Capitol Hills, Diliman, Quezon City and its transmitter is located at the Coca Cola plant,...

 in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. Its studios were located at Broadcast City, Capitol Hills, Diliman, Quezon City, with its transmitter located along Roosevelt Avenue, San Francisco del Monte, Quezon City.

History

Known as DWKB-FM (KB 89.1), the station first aired in 1975 and in a short time, became one of the country's most listened to easy listening FM music stations.

As 89 DMZ

The station later rebranded as 89 DMZ, which played dance

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

, hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 and remixed music

Remix

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. The late rapper, Francis Magalona

Francis Magalona

Francis Michael Durango Magalona , also known as FrancisM, Master Rapper, MC The Mouth and The Man From Manila, was a Filipino rapper, entrepreneur, songwriter, producer, actor, director, and photographer. He was the first Filipino rapper in the Philippines to cross over to the mainstream...

, worked with the station through his program, "The Word-up Show", which aired on Saturday nights. It also became the home of the "Mobile Circuit".

The End of 89 DMZ

In 2001, IBC and Blockbuster Broadcasting System went into a government-sponsored bidding and Blockbuster Broadcasting System won the frequency rights as Wave 891 (callsign then changed to DWAV). However, the network still shares its transmission facilities of IBC 13 to this day.

The Return of 89 DMZ

As of July 1, 2011 89 DMZ made a comeback as an online radio station

Internet radio

Internet radio is an audio service transmitted via the Internet...

, through live streaming by iDMZ Test Broadcasting (www.89dmz.com).

DZMZ

• The Mouth
  Francis Magalona
  Francis Michael Durango Magalona , also known as FrancisM, Master Rapper, MC The Mouth and The Man From Manila, was a Filipino rapper, entrepreneur, songwriter, producer, actor, director, and photographer. He was the first Filipino rapper in the Philippines to cross over to the mainstream...
  
   (Francis Magalona)
• The Unbeatable (Andy Santillan)
• Jellybean (Rolly Manlapaz)
• Peewee (Peewee Wenceslao)
• Chinaman (Joey Lim)
• DJ Ouch (Lopie Guzman)
• Force (Neil Centeno)
• The Sting (Terence Khan) (current IBC-13 voice-over)
• DJ Blare (Bernadette Camalig) (the ONLY female "zee-jay")
• Jolly O! (Dax B. Jose)
• DJ Kaye (Kaye Tan) (delivers "The Word" - hourly news)

DWKB

• Long Tall Howard
• Bingo Lacson
• Vic Morales
• Peewee
• Peter Rabbit (Peter Musngi) (current ABS-CBN voice-over)

See also

• IBC-13
  DZTV-TV
  DZTV-TV, channel 13, is the flagship station of Philippine television network Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation. Its studios are located at Broadcast City, Capitol Hills, Old Balara, Diliman, Quezon City with transmitters located at the Coca-Cola Plant, Roosevelt Ave., San Francisco del...