The Easy Rock Network was formed on May 18, 2009.The Birth of the Easy Rock network, Manila Broadcasting Company, retrieved 30 July 2009The Birth of the Easy Rock Network, Google Archive, retrieved 5 October 2009 The formation of the Easy Rock Network started with an initial rebrand of the newly acquired DWRK radio station, which MBC bought from the ACWS-United Broadcasting Network on October 6, 2008.Elizaldes’ Manila Broadcasting acquires 96.3 Wrock The Easy Rock network was later expanded by rebranding a number of former Yes FM stations, Love Radio and Hot FM stations to Easy Rock. The format of Easy Rock resembles that of WRocK, with "no/minimal talk, less commercials and more music".
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14, 2017, 92.3 Easy Rock Iloilo resumed broadcast after more than a month off air. Sep. 2018, Easy Rock Iloilo launches Morning show with Jay Parillo (former Easy Rock 96.3 Manila) and Evening Show named The Flight with Birdman Vargas' with DJs on board.
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In 2012, Easy Rock made some changes in its playlist. Since then, it predominantly plays only the songs usually aired on its sister stations' playlist.The Birth of the Easy Rock network96.3 Easy Rock Gets Jingles from ReelWorldIs she the one? On October 2, 2019, the main studios of 96.3 Easy Rock at the MBC Building, CCP Complex in Pasay City, along with its sister MBC Manila radio stations, were affected by a major fire that originated in the nearby Star City theme park.
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Easy Rock is also broadcast to 9 provincial stations in the Philippines.
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Easy Rock is also broadcast to 9 provincial stations in the Philippines.
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DZYS, broadcasting as 91.9 Easy Rock, is a music FM radio station owned by Cebu Broadcasting Company, an affiliate licensee of Manila Broadcasting Company under the Easy Rock Network. Its studios and transmitter are located inside the Skyrise Hotel, Dominican Rd., Baguio. The station simulcasts DZRH from 4:00-7:30 AM. And like all Easy Rock stations, it airs less commercials and more music.
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DYEY, under the brand 93.5 Easy Rock Boracay, is an FM station owned by JME Broadcast Resources and operated by Cebu Broadcasting Company. The studio is located in Barangay Balabag, Boracay Island, Malay, Aklan, Philippines. 93.5 Easy Rock Boracay was started on May 18, 2009.
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Its ascent involves easy glacier crossings, steep snow climbing, and easy rock scrambling. This peak is for experienced mountaineers only.
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DYST-FM, under the brand 92.3 Easy Rock Iloilo, is a music FM station owned by Cebu Broadcasting Company and managed by RVV Broadcast Ventures in Iloilo, under the Easy Rock Network of the Manila Broadcasting Company. Its studio is located at Kahirup Bldg., Guanco Street, Iloilo City, along with their sister station Love Radio Iloilo DYMB 97.5.
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DXYS, broadcasting as 105.1 Easy Rock Davao, is a music FM radio station owned by Cebu Broadcasting Company and operated by its affiliate Manila Broadcasting Company under the Easy Rock Network. The station is currently broadcasting from Ground Floor, ATU Plaza Commercial Mall, Governor Duterte Street, Davao City and our transmitter located at MBC Compound, Broadcast Avenue, Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
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DYMY, broadcasting as 105.5 Easy Rock Bacolod is a music FM radio station owned by Cebu Broadcasting Company and operated by its affiliate Manila Broadcasting Company under the Easy Rock Network. The station is currently broadcasting from Bacolod. Its studio and transmitter are located at RML Building, Burgos Street, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. The main format of the station is soft rock music.
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Its format is lite rock, lite jazz, easy listening and doo wop station without any DJs from sun up to sun down. 92.3 Easy Rock Iloilo is fully automated with less recorded announcements and more lite music. Aug 3, 2017, both 92.3 Easy Rock & 97.5 Love Radio went suddenly off the air due to power surge from Panay Electric Company (PECO). After 3 days, 97.5 Love Radio resumed broadcast. Sep.
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DWRK (96.3 FM), broadcasting as 96.3 Easy Rock, is a music FM radio station owned and operated by Manila Broadcasting Company, and serves as the flagship station of Easy Rock Network. The station's studio is located at Design Center of the Philippines, Vicente Sotto Street, CCP Complex, Pasay City (beside Star City); while its transmitter facilities are located at the BSA Twin Towers, Bank Drive, Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City, sharing the same site with sister stations 90.7 Love Radio and 101.1 Yes The Best. Easy Rock is the most listened to easy-listening radio station preferred by listeners, especially in the office, and also by motorists in Metro Manila, as conducted by Nielsen Radio Research Survey.
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On July 8, 2009, DXCM was once again on-the-air, this time with the transition of the station's identity from Love Radio to Easy Rock. This transition marks the birth of the first lite rock (all-ballad) radio station in Zamboanga City. After five years of airing as Easy Rock, DXCM reverted itself once again as Love Radio on February 26, 2014 coinciding with the rebranding of DXHT, another network of the MBC as Yes! FM.
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The Homecoming is an album by Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist Hagood Hardy. It was released in 1975. The music was mainly jazz and easy rock. Six of the tracks were composed by Hardy.
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From the Franz Senn Hütte hut it is approximately 3½ hours mostly over glaciers and snow, with a small (100 m) easy rock scramble at the end. Close to, and can be combined with, the Rotgratspitze and Lisenser Spitze.
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Despite the pronunciation of the letter "Z" as "zed" in Canadian English, the name is pronounced "E-Zee Rock" (as in "Easy Rock") using the American English pronunciation of the letter, not "E-Zed Rock". Depending on the station, the slogan will be Today's Best Variety or More Music Variety.
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At present, 96.3 Easy Rock is also heard via digital HD Radio via the HD1 channel. The HD2 channel carries the simulcast of Radyo Natin Nationwide, a hometown-formatted national radio station owned by MBC affiliate Radyo Natin Network. The HD3 channel carries a simulcast of sister AM station DZRH.
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DXKS (96.9 FM), broadcasting as 96.9 Easy Rock, is a music radio station owned by Cebu Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Manila Broadcasting Company. The station is currently broadcasting from 6th floor TTK Tower Building, Don Apolinario Velez Street, Cagayan de Oro City. The main format of the station is soft rock music.
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The station's studio is located at Design Center of the Philippines, Vicente Sotto Street, CCP Complex, Pasay City (beside Star City); while its transmitter facilities is located at the BSA Twin Towers, Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City, sharing the same site with 90.7 Love Radio & 96.3 Easy Rock. The current station manager is Karen Golfo.
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Easy Rock is an adult contemporary music radio brand of Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC). Its main studios are located in Star City Complex, Pasay City, Metro Manila. Its flagship station is DWRK in Metro Manila, with seven regional stations located throughout the Philippines either owned by MBC or its sister companies within the company's media group.
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In December 2008, its studios moved from FEMS Tower 1 in Osmeña Highway, Manila to the Star City Complex in Sotto St. cor. Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City next to its new sister stations. On May 18, 2009, DWRK rebranded as 96.3 Easy Rock, ending 20 years of broadcasting under the WRocK brand to reflect the change. This was MBC's first venture into class A,B & C market.
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Torre Cerredo was first ascended by Aymar d'Arlot de Saint Saud, Paul Labrouche, Juan Suárez, de Espinama and Francois Salles, from Gavarnie, on June 30, 1882. The easiest ascent route starts at Jou de Cerredo; the last 200 metres are an easy rock climb that does not require special equipment. The most common approach uses the refuges of Jou de los Cabrones and Vega de Urriellu.
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WRocK Online was a Metro Manila FM radio station and a defunct Internet radio station owned by ACWS-United Broadcasting Network (also operating under the trade name WRocK Entertainment) in the Philippines. As an FM radio station, it operated under the call sign and frequency DWRK at 96.3 MHz, a frequency now used by 96.3 Easy Rock. The main format of the station was soft rock music.
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In 2006, Home Radio introduced its first 24-hour fully automated DJ Jackie (voiced by Lannie Chan). In 2009, it recruited female (and later, male) DJs on board, following the less talk, more music style. On February 28, 2014, after 14 years, the Home Radio network bade goodbye to its easy listening format, following its transition for the next 2 weeks, leaving 96.3 Easy Rock as the sole Soft AC station in the market.
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WLST (95.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Marinette, Wisconsin broadcasting a country music format. 95.1 FM had been an adult contemporary format (as "The Wave", previously known by the monikers "Live 95" and "Easy Rock 95") station until January, 2008 when then-owner Armada Media swapped formats between WLST and WHYB in Menominee, Michigan. WHYB became "The Wave" while the higher powered WLST took on the "Cat Country" name and format. Original call letters were WLOT-FM.
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In January 1999, Hot FM was launched in Dagupan, Cebu City, General Santos and Zamboanga City, with more than 50 minor provincial radio stations (under the consortium with Radyo Natin). In October 2008, MBC acquired DWRK from ACWS- United Broadcasting Network. Seven months later in May 2009, DWRK was relaunched as Easy Rock. In 2017, Hot FM was unofficially ceased itself as most of the remaining Hot FM stations were rebranded and switched to Radyo Natin.
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A 100-capacity orchestra pit is also present within the theater which is the largest in the Philippines. Like the theater itself, the feature which was unveiled on October 2012 was a present to Lisa Macuja-Elizalde whose birthday is on October 3. Radio stations owned by the Manila Broadcasting Company namely DZRH, Love Radio, Easy Rock, Yes The Best and Radyo Natin Nationwide are also hosted on the theater's first floor where the entrance is also situated.
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It was formerly known as Hot FM carrying a mass- based format from 1999 to May 2009. In July 2009, it changed its brand to Easy Rock, with a Soft AC format, competing with Home Radio. In February 2014, the station, along with MBC's O&O; Hot FM stations, rebranded as Yes FM, reverting to its mass-based format. In September 2019, it was reformatted into a music and news/talk format, this time using the DZRH branding.
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May 14, 2009, DYST-FM was sold to Cebu Broadcasting Company & rebranded to 92.3 WRocK The Heart of Lite Rock. WRocK Iloilo plays lite rock and alternative and some rock genre. This is in line to change strategy instead to two pop stations in the same network, they will compete with other genre to have the maximum rating from other competition pop station in Iloilo. July 1, 2009, It was formally rebranded again to 92.3 Easy Rock Iloilo, Just the Rite Rock.
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It rises directly above the main road between the island's capital San Sebastián and Garajonay National Park in the centre, which makes it a popular tourist sight. The summit is not accessible by foot. During the 20th century, some easy rock-climbing routes were established on the peak, but climbing is now banned there, and hiking is restricted to established paths in its vicinity, as it forms part of a protected area. Remains of the indigenous Guanche sacrificial shrines have been found on the summit.
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MBC forms its own network group with six national brands, specifically, DZRH radio and DZRH News Television, Aksyon Radyo, Love Radio, Yes The Best, Easy Rock, and Radyo Natin; operated either directly by MBC, or through its affiliate- licensees Pacific Broadcasting Systems, Cebu Broadcasting Company, Radyo Natin Network, and Philippine Broadcasting Corporation. DZRH News Television, which is an extension of the DZRH brand into an audio-visual platform, is carried by some 1,000 cable providers throughout the Philippine archipelago. The current president of MBC is Ruperto Nicdao Jr.
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However, due to radio guidelines, MBC is not allowed to own more than one radio station. As such, the frequency used by the WRocK Manila radio station was assigned to Cebu Broadcasting Company. While the Manila radio station (DWRK, now broadcasting as 96.3 Easy Rock) is under the control of MBC's subsidiary Cebu Broadcasting Company, ACWS-UBN retains control of the WRocK provincial stations after the said acquisition. In the same year of acquisition, ACWS-UBN decided to re-establish the original WRocK format via online stream branding it as "WRocK Online" through Hayag.
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It is also serves as a radio transmitter and secondary studio facilities of the FM radio stations 90.7 Love Radio, 101.1 Yes The Best and 96.3 Easy Rock, as well as temporary studios of AM radio station DZRH and community-formatted national FM station Radyo Natin, all owned by Manila Broadcasting Company. At night, there is an neon light display at the top of the building, with logos of the St Francis Group of Companies, AUX Aircon, and HKTV (HongKong TV) seen on the roofs, giving it an iconic look to the Ortigas skyline.
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On weekends there are several themes of hours with different types of rock music. On the weekday evening is heard almost nonstop music under Classic Rock Around The Clock, in the hours before midnight Easy Rock & Ballads. Furthermore, there are made several days special programs in the evening, like every Tuesday from nine to ten hours Arrow Symfonisch presented by Kees Baars, BluesBox by Gerry Jungen on every Wednesday from nine to ten, and finally Wintertijd with Harry de Winter, every Friday presented the hours before midnight. In 2012 heard there are different specials and presented programs on Arrow Classic Rock.
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The station first went on the air in 1949 as WWYN FM and later briefly as WWFM eight years after the debut of its AM sister station WWYN AM and FM, which later became WRIE. For many years until the mid-1980s, this was Erie's heritage easy listening radio station. The station ran automated for almost its entire existence until its purchase by K & K Radio Broadcasting in April 1985 when it was changed to an AC oldies station "Easy Rock 999", which operated for several months on the automation system. Following the purchase by K & K, and amid declines in the easy listening format, Don Kelly took Eazy Rock 999 live in the summer to Classy 100 WXKC adult contemporary, much like what it is today.
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The station went on the air as WOSC on August 22, 1949. By the late 1960s, the station programmed a format of pop and easy rock music, local and Mutual network news, and popular local personalities such as Carl Dunn in the morning, Frank Dale, Bob Putnam, Pat Riley, and Dave Kramer throughout the day. Manager Robert Rooney kept the station glued to the local news events. During this time, the co-owned WOSC-FM became the first FM station to program rock and roll on FM in central New York. In 1972, recent SU graduate Peter McElvein took over the morning program and, later that year, attained the highest ratings in its history, fifth overall out of more than 15 Syracuse stations, although the station was 22 miles away from Syracuse.
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DZMB (90.7 FM), broadcasting as 90.7 Love Radio, is a 24-hour commercial radio station owned and operated by Manila Broadcasting Company though its licensee, Cebu Broadcasting Company, serving as the flagship station of Love Radio Network. The station's studio is located at Design Center of the Philippines, Vicente Sotto Street, CCP Complex, Pasay City (beside Star City); while its transmitter facilities is located at the BSA Twin Towers, Bank Drive, Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City, sharing the same site with 96.3 Easy Rock, and 101.1 Yes The Best. It operates 24/7 except during the Paschal Triduum of the Holy Week annually (off air from midnight of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Black Saturday, and resumes transmissions on Easter Sunday at 4:00 AM). Since 2005, 90.7 Love Radio is headed by Ms. Emmylou Gaite-Tiñana as the station manager.
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The facade of the MBC building, the entrance area of Star City, and the seats and stage of the Aliw Theater also survived the fire. The management announced that it would engage in a year-long rehabilitation effort, including the importation of new rides and the reconstruction of the park, until Star City is re-opened by October 2020; however, there were plans to partially re-open within 2019 depending on the assessment on the damage caused. The MBC, which runs the AM station DZRH and the FM stations Love Radio, Yes The Best, Easy Rock and Radyo Natin, was able to resume operations using its secondary facilities at the BSA Twin Towers in Mandaluyong for its FM stations, and in Valenzuela and Bulacan for its AM stations. The venues for Ballet Manila's scheduled performance of Giselle were moved, from the Aliw and Star Theaters to the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex.
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The Candymen (or the Candy Men) were an American pop quintet active 1965-1972 which prefigured the Atlanta Rhythm Section. The group were managed by Dothan, Alabama producer-songwriter Buddy Buie, and included guitarists John Rainey Adkins (who was the mainstay of the live band), plus Barry Bailey and J.R. Cobb, singer Rodney Justo, drummer Robert Nix and keyboard player Dean Daughtry.Colin Larkin - 2011 The Encyclopedia of Popular Music - Page 2006 " ... 8 September 1946, Kinston, Alabama, USA; keyboards) and drummer Robert Nix had been members of Orbison's backing group, the Candymen, and ... The band, guided by manager/producer Buddy Buie, recorded two albums for Decca Records in 1972, neither of which ..." The band's chart singles included "Georgia Pines" (1967) and "Ways" (1968).Billboard - 23 March 1968 - Page 68 POP THE CANDYMEN BRING YOU CANDY POWER-ABC ABC 633 (M); ABCS 633 (S) The Candymen have come up with another excellent album in their easy rock style with its strong blues influence.
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During the 2000s until its acquisition by MBC, it hosted events and played music that inspired a generation up to October 26, 2008 when its DJ's aired the final edition of "Lite Rock Favorites of the Week" with DJs Cherry and Dylan Thomas.96.3 Pakshet101 WordPress - "goodbye WRocK, thanks for the memories" On October 6, 2008, it has been announced that the Elizalde Group of Companies' Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC) has purchased WRocK from the Hodreal family, owners of ACWS-UBN, for PhP229.6 million. Except for the acquisition price, further terms were not disclosed. However, radio guidelines dictate that an entity could declare no more than one station under its direct ownership; hence as MBC is the declared owner of 90.7 Love Radio and its sister AM station DZRH, it could not be the declared owner of 96.3 FM. While the Manila radio station (DWRK - rebranded to 96.3 Easy Rock) is under the control of MBC's subsidiary Cebu Broadcasting Company, ACWS-UBN retains control of the WRocK provincial stations.
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