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{{Short description|Radio station in Metro Manila, Philippines}}
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{{Use Philippine English|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name                = Radyo Bandido
| callsign            = DZRJ
| logo                = 
| logo_size           = 200px
| caption             = 
| city                = [[Makati]]
| country             = PH
| area                = [[Mega Manila]] and surrounding areas
| branding            = DZRJ 810 Radyo Bandido
| airdate             = 1963
| frequency           = 810 [[kHz]]
| format              = [[News]], [[Public affairs (broadcasting)|Public Affairs]], [[Talk radio|Talk]]
| language            = [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], [[English language|English]]
| licensing_authority = [[National Telecommunications Commission (Philippines)|NTC]]
| power               = 50,000 [[watt]]s
| class               =
| callsign_meaning    = '''R'''amon '''J'''acinto
| former_frequencies  = 780 kHz (1963–1978)
| affiliations        = [[Daily Tribune (Philippines)|Daily Tribune]], [[BBC World Service]], [[Voice of America]]
| owner               = [[Rajah Broadcasting Network]]
| licensee            = Free Air Broadcasting Network, Inc.
| website             = [http://www.rjplanet.com RJplanet.com]
| webcast             = [https://www.facebook.com/dzrj810am/ Listen/Watch via Facebook Live] 
| sister_stations     = [[DZRJ-FM|100.3 RJFM]], [[DZRJ-DTV|RJDigiTV]] 
}}
{{Infobox television channel
| name = Radyo Bandido TV
| logo = 
| logo_size = 
| caption = 
| launch_date = September 16, 2019 (test broadcast) <br> October 15, 2019 (soft launch) <br> February 13, 2020 (official launch)
| closed_date = 
| picture_format = [[720p]] [[16:9]] ([[HDTV]])
| network = '''DZRJ 810 AM Radyo Bandido'''
| owner = [[Rajah Broadcasting Network]]
| parent = 
| country = Philippines
| language = [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], [[English language|English]]
| motto = 
| area = [[Philippines]]
| affiliates = [[DZRJ-DTV|RJ DigiTV]]
| headquarters = Ventures I Building, [[Makati Avenue]] corner General Luna Street, [[Makati]]
| former_names = 
| sister_channels = Rock MNL
| website = 
| terr_serv_1 = [[Digital terrestrial television]]
| terr_chan_1 = Channel 29.3
| sat_radio_serv_1 = 
| sat_radio_chan_1 = 
| online_serv_1 = [[YouTube]]
| online_chan_1 = [https://www.youtube.com/c/DZRJ810AMRadyoBandido/ Watch Live]
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'''DZRJ''' (810 [[AM broadcasting|AM]]) '''Radyo Bandido''' is a radio station owned and operated by [[Rajah Broadcasting Network]] through its licensee Free Air Broadcasting Network, Inc. Its studio is located at the 2nd Floor, Ventures I Building, [[Makati Avenue]] corner General Luna Street, Barangay [[Poblacion, Makati|Poblacion]], [[Makati]], while its transmitter is located along Km. 21 [[Quirino Highway]], Barangay Pasong Putik, [[Novaliches]], [[Quezon City]].

==History==
===1963–1986: Boss Radio===
In 1963, the 17-year-old Ramon "RJ" Jacinto started operating the station in the backyard of his house together with his classmates from [[Ateneo de Manila University]]. Originally broadcast on the frequency of 780 [[Kilohertz|kHz]], it carried the tagline, "DzRJ: Boss Radio", which later evolved into "DzRJ, The Rock of Manila" as it hosted a daily show called "Pinoy Rock 'n' Rhythm" (later shortened to "[[Pinoy Rock]]"), which was conceived by DzRJ's original station manager, Alan Austria ("Double-A") and its program director, Emil Quinto ("Charlie Brown"). DZRJ's radio personalities, the "Bossmen", then the "RockJocks", became celebrities in Manila's counterculture.<ref>[https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2014/12/31/1407932/rj-gayots-their-legend-lives-on RJ & the Gayots: Their legend lives on]</ref><ref>[https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2015/01/17/1413635/them-were-days Them were the days]</ref>

====Pinoy Rock 'n' Rhythm====
The daily ''Pinoy Rock 'n' Rhythm'' radio show, which was hosted by Bob Lopez-Pozas ("Bob Magoo") and later by Dante David ("Howlin' Dave"), featured the early vinyl releases of pioneering Filipino rock groups such as RJ and the Riots', the [[Juan Dela Cruz Band]] and '''Anakbayan''', as well as submissions (on cassette tapes) of recordings from Manila's unsigned bands and independent artists. The earliest contributions were from groups such as '''Maria Cafra''' ("Kamusta Mga Kaibigan"/"How Are You, Friends?"), '''Petrified Anthem''' ("Drinking Wine"), '''Destiny''' ("A Taste Of Honey"), and the nascent [[Apo Hiking Society|Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society]].

A mobile recording studio was set up by Alan Austria in 1974, using the station's 4-track tape recorder and mixing board, for "live-in-the-booth" recordings to facilitate the entries of contestants for one of its sponsors, RC Cola and its First National Battle of the Bands (produced by RC Cola's then COO, Cesare Syjuco). More than 200 new songs were said to have been recorded for the Pinoy Rock 'n' Rhythm show, and these entries were aired in succession through many weeks, as the participating bands worked their way into the elimination rounds. These [[Demo (music)|demos]] paved the way for recording artists such as [[Florante]], [[Heber Bartolome]] of Banyuhay, [[Johnny Alegre]] of Hourglass, '''Bob Aves''' of Destiny, and many others, who thrived prominently in the Philippine record industry during later years.

DZRJ's premises, the J&T Building along [[Magsaysay Boulevard]] in [[Santa Mesa]], [[Manila]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theurbanroamer.com/a-history-of-rock-and-revolution-jt-building/|title=a history of rock and revolution: J&T Building|date=September 5, 2009|accessdate=May 25, 2024|website=The Urban Roamer}}</ref> was the site for rock concerts which were organized by the station; first on the building's roof deck, and later in its open-air parking lot. The emergence of Pinoy Rock as a popular musical genre was the springboard for artists to emerge commercially, as their key recordings reached a wide listening public. The best examples of such artists and their hits are the Juan Dela Cruz Band ("Himig Natin"), '''Sampaguita''' ("Bonggahan"), [[Mike Hanopol]] ("Laki Sa Layaw"), and even Eddie Munji III ("Pinoy Jazz") and, of course, DZRJ's very own [[Ramon Jacinto|RJ Jacinto]] ("Muli").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ooHnAAAAMAAJ|title=Liwayway: 1968|pages=89|date=1968|publisher=[[Liwayway]]|access-date=August 26, 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref>

The station's Pinoy rock scene, as well as non-rock pop hits, thus formed the basis of what is now known as Original Pinoy Music (OPM).

====The Rock 'n' Roll Machine====
DZRJ was also known for a cross-genre, album-oriented midnight show, called ''The Rock 'n' Roll Machine'', hosted by Hoagy Pardo ("Cousin Hoagy'"), which provided late night listeners with entire sides of advance copies of LPs from the United States and the United Kingdom. Its early morning program opened to a rousing drumbeat from a [[The Ventures|Ventures]] song with a pre-recorded tape cartridge of [[Howlin' Dave]] announcing "''Gising na, RJ na!''" ("Wake up, it's RJ time!"). It also aired the packaged US chart show, [[Casey Kasem]]'s ''[[American Top 40]]''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3qafAAAAMAAJ|last=Caruncho|first=Eric|title=Punks, Poets, Poseurs: Reportage on Pinoy Rock & Roll|pages=18|date=1996|publisher=[[Anvil Publishing]]|isbn=9789712705311|access-date=August 26, 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref>

====New frequency assignment====
In November 1978, DZRJ-AM migrated to the current frequency of 810&nbsp;kHz, in response to the frequency adjustments, owing to the adoption of the current 9&nbsp;kHz spacing on AM radio stations in the Philippines implemented by the [[Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975]], replacing the NARBA mandated 10&nbsp;kHz AM radio spacing plan which was used from 1922 up to that time.

===1986–2010: The first iteration of Radyo Bandido===
{{further|People Power Revolution}}
At the height of the [[People Power Revolution]] in late February 1986 that ousted then-sitting [[President of the Philippines|President]] [[Ferdinand Marcos]], newscaster [[June Keithley]] and [[Fr. James Reuter, S.J.]] commandeered the DZRJ station, which they renamed '''Radyo Bandido''' (Outlaw Radio or Bandit Radio). This was after the facilities and transmitter of Keithley's home network, the [[Roman Catholic Church|Church]]-owned [[DZRV-AM|Radio Veritas]], were shut down by the Marcos-loyal [[Armed Forces of the Philippines]]. Radyo Bandido broadcasts opened with former President [[Ramón Magsaysay]]'s political jingle ''Mambo Magsaysay'' (composed by Raúl Manglapus), because it was also the theme music of the disabled Radio Veritas and thus enabled Keithley to clandestinely identify herself to listening protesters.

For her role in providing both information and morale to protesters during the Revolution, Keithley was awarded the [[Philippine Legion of Honor|Medal of the Legion of Honor]] by President [[Cory Aquino]] after the fall of the Marcos regime.<ref>[https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/health-and-family/2016/02/25/1557010/my-mom-my-hero-june-keithley-her-daughters-eyes My mom, my hero: June Keithley in her daughter’s eyes]</ref> The ''Radio Broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution,'' which includes broadcasts from DZRJ, is inscribed on the [[UNESCO]] [[Memory of the World Register]], the official documentary heritage list of the United Nations.<ref>{{Cite web|date=|title=Radio Broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution|url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-7/radio-broadcast-of-the-philippine-people-power-revolution/|url-status=live|access-date=November 29, 2021|website=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703095650/http://www.unesco.org:80/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-7/radio-broadcast-of-the-philippine-people-power-revolution |archive-date=July 3, 2011 }}</ref>

To honor the station's key role in the 1986 Revolution, DZRJ AM was officially rebranded ''Radyo Bandido'', and switching to a public service format. Meanwhile, the music format revived on FM as [[DZRJ-FM|RJ 100.3]], then later, RJ Underground Radio 105.9 (currently [[DWLA-FM|105.9 True FM]]), as well as their flagship TV network [[RJTV 29|RJ DigiTV]]. DZRJ is known for some veteran broadcasters such as Johnny Midnight and [[Art Borjal]]. Since 2004, it began airing news from the [[BBC World Service]] and the [[Voice of America]]. The [[Philippine Basketball Association|PBA]] Games on Radio was moved to DZRJ-AM from [[DZSR]] in 2009. [[UAAP]] on Radio started on DZRJ-AM in 2010. Of note as well is DZRJ-AM's role during [[EDSA II]] in 2001 which led to the resignation of President [[Joseph Estrada]].<ref>[https://www.bulatlat.com/news/6-6/6-6-radio.htm Critical Radio Show Now Off the Air, Listeners Try to Bring It Back]</ref>

===2010–2015: The Voice of the Philippines===
With Radyo Bandido's popularity waning during the recent years, the management decided to launch a unique brand in June 2010. On July 19, it upgraded its transmitter facilities to 50,000 watts. Radyo Bandido signed off for the last time on August 22.

On August 25, 2010, DZRJ launched its English-language broadcasts under the branding '''The Voice of the Philippines''' as a test broadcast, with its official launch on October 4, 2010.<ref>[https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2010/10/04/617457/dzrj-launches-all-english-am-radio-station-today DZRJ launches all-English AM radio station today – The Philippine Star]. Retrieved on October 4, 2010</ref> DZRJ was the only English-language AM station in [[Mega Manila]] during the existence. Its format consisted of news in English from the ''[[Philippine Star]]'', the Voice of America and the BBC World Service, Lifestyle, Sports and Public Service. In September 2015, the same time the station launched the newest morning show '''The New Bandidos'''.

On June 7, 2016, [[Greco Belgica]] joined DZRJ and launched his program #GrecoLive. It was a widely accepted [[public service]] program that caters to [[overseas Filipino Workers]] and local issues. CJ Santos co-hosted #GrecoLive as Jack Logan.

===2015–2017: 8TriMedia era===
On October 4, 2015, 8TriMedia, a media firm owned by rice trader Jojo Soliman and veteran radio broadcaster Kaye Dacer (formerly from [[DZMM]]), transferred its programs and [[Brokered programming|time-sharing]] operation from [[DWBL-AM]]. With the transfer of operations, 8TriMedia programs started broadcasting via TeleRadyo format exclusively on [[Cablelink]], where it was seen on Channel 7 as ''8TriTV''. 

Initially, 8TriMedia occupied the 9{{nbsp}}am to 7{{nbsp}}pm airtime of DZRJ. By November 2016, it occupied the full 21-hour airtime on weekdays, keeping the overnight hook-up of the [[BBC World Service]] and original DZRJ programs (especially on weekends) intact.

8TriMedia made use of the '''Radyo Bandido''' brand until late 2016. Despite being brokered by 8TriMedia, DZRJ still retained the '''Voice of the Philippines''' brand when airing its own programs. During its tenure, Daniel Castro provided voice-overs for station ID's, program teasers, and other on-air elements aired on the station.

In November 2017, 8TriMedia's original studio in Seneca Plaza Bldg., Quezon City was damaged due to flooding brought by [[Tropical Storm Haikui (2017)|Tropical Storm Salome (Haikui)]]. This prompted 8TriMedia's programs and personalities to utilize DZRJ's original studio at the Ventures Building in Makati, until a new studio for 8TriMedia was reconstructed.

In December 2017, DZRJ cancelled its agreement from blocktimer 8TriMedia.

===2017–present: Return of Radyo Bandido===
[[File:VOP Logo.jpg|thumb|Logo of DZRJ-AM from 2017 to 2022]]
Following the end of agreement, most of the programs and radio personalities from 8TriMedia had been now integrated to DZRJ's programming. With that development, DZRJ brought back its legendary Radyo Bandido brand.<ref>[https://www.bworldonline.com/senate-approves-franchise-extension-for-rj-jacintos-network/ Senate approves franchise extension for RJ Jacinto’s network]</ref>

====Radyo Bandido TV====
Since June 6, 2018, some programs of Radyo Bandido began airing on "TeleRadyo" format through [[DZRJ-DTV|RJ DigiTV]] after its affiliate [[2nd Avenue (television network)|2nd Avenue]] ended its free TV broadcast and its blocktime agreement with [[Solar Entertainment Corporation]] has expired. There are plans though to make a separate "TeleRadyo" sub-channel on RJdigiTV for the station. On September 16, 2019, DZRJ TeleRadyo began its initial test broadcast on RJ DigiTV sub-channel, and it is also available via SkyCable Channel 224 in Metro Manila.

On October 15, 2019, the same standalone channel was formally launched as DZRJ RadioVision, reverting its cable and digital channel assignment on channel 29.03. Alongside this, DZRJ unveiled its new content.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.rjplanet.com RJ Group of Companies website]

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