City Dumaguete City Branding SR95 | Broadcast area Central Visayas Frequency 95.1 MHz | |
Slogan SuRe Hits Radio
Today's Best Music (secondary slogan, former primary slogan during Magic years) First air date 1950 – 2005/2006 (as DYSR-AM)
Early 1990s – 2005 (as DYSR-FM)
2005 – 2007 (as Wild FM 95.1)
2007 – 2013 (as KillerBee 95.1)
2013 – 2014 (as Magic 95.1)
2014 – present (as SR95) | ||
DYSR-FM, branded as SR95, is an FM radio station owned by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines. DYSR-FM broadcasts in the frequency 95.1 MHz with studio and transmitter located at Camp SEA Site, Brgy. Banilad, Dumaguete City.
SR95 also broadcasts the 9:00 a.m. worship service of the Silliman University Church on Sundays (which starts at 9:30 a.m.)
DYSR is notable to be the oldest radio station in Dumaguete (in terms of AM and FM stations broadcasting there), being launched in 1950 by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines in the AM band. The station was formerly broadcast at 840 kHz from its inception until the Philippines switched AM spacing from 10 kHz to 9 kHz in 1979, and 891 kHz from 1979 or 1980 to 2005 or 2006.
DYSR-AM was notable for relaying what's known to be the city's first night flight on March 29, 1975, that led a Fairchild C-123K Provider aircraft landing safely in Sibulan Airport. At that time, the airport did not had runway lights until it was installed 42 years later. The provincial Philippine Constabulary headquarters relayed announcements through this station to car owners to go to the airport and light the runway using headlights, which various car owners responded to the announcement. The announcement on this station gave pilot Eugene Malahay and co-pilot Antonio Paulin time to land the aircraft safely into the airport.
DYSR-FM, in the other hand, was launched in the early 1990s. It is still unknown if DYSR-FM at that time simulcasted the AM band or was separate from the AM service before switching into an "FM-only service" in 2005. According on the National Telecommunications Commission's list of broadcast stations in Negros Oriental, the list still mentions DYSR-AM and DYSR-FM despite DYSR now operating as an "FM-only station". It would become the last FM station to launch in Dumaguete until in 2013, when DYMD began doing FM operations.
In the first quarter of 2014, the station reverted its branding back to SR95. However, its CHR-Top 40 format, programming and ownership remained unchanged besides retaining some Magic (and KillerBee) stingers/jingles aired. It is the one of the two stations previously affiliated with Quest Broadcasting, Inc. to use a different brand name than Magic, the other one is in Butuan in the CARAGA region in Mindanao, branded as "Bee FM 102.3".
The station signs-on every 5:30 a.m. and signs-off every 12:00 a.m. daily.
Programming
SR95 broadcasts in the CHR/Top 40 format.
Special programs include "The Retro Spin" every Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 midnight. And during weekends SR95 has the "All-Request Saturday" and on Sundays the station plays Christian music from 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. and from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., Reggae from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., indie and OPM rock under Local Vocal from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., cover versions of popular songs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and back to CHR/Top 40 music with pop and R&B genre from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. Monday.