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DXZB (89.9 FM), broadcasting as 89.9 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned and operated by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. Its studio is located along Mayor Vitaliano Agan Ave., Brgy. Camino Nuevo, Zamboanga City, while its transmitter is located in Sitio Muruk, Brgy. Pasonanca, Zamboanga City. This station operates daily from 4 am to 12 midnight.
The station was formerly known as Bay Radio from 1992 to 2013, when Brigada acquired Baycomms Broadcasting Corporation. Brigada News FM was formerly on 93.1 FM under an airtime lease with Audiovisual Communicators, Inc. from its inception in August 2013 to the middle of 2015, when it transferred to this frequency.
Controversy
On October 13, 2024, program host Carina Bea Dela Cruz made a post on her Facebook profile about her thoughts about the celebration of the Nuestra Senora La Virgen del Pilar (or Fiesta Pilar) inside the Fort Pilar Shrine premises, with calling her out 'should be observed with dignified solemnities'. This prompted the Fort Pilar Shrine Administrator and Catholic priest, Fr. Armand Aquino called out for attention and cited 'how Fiesta Pilar has been celebrated solemnly by mood, but also remains festive.' Dela Cruz deleted her original post and apologized 'for the importance of cultural and spiritual symbols for many'. The radio station's management made a statement regarding this matter that 'the views are represented by her and does not represent by the radio station' and have talked to Dela Cruz about what happened.
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- List of radio stations in Zamboanga Peninsula
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- List of analog television stations in the Philippines