DWLF
radio station in Lucena City
DWLF (87.9 FM) Radyo Pilipinas is a radio station owned and operated by the Presidential Broadcast Service. Its studio is located at the 2nd Floor, Boy Scouts of the Philippines Bldg., Perez St., Brgy. 10, Lucena, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Talipan, Pagbilao.
History
The station was established in 1962 under the call letters DWCW. It was under the Radio Control Division / Radio Control Office. After the Martial Law was implemented in 1972, its ownership was transferred to the Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation. By the late 70s, it started carrying the Progress Radio branding.
In November 1978, DWCW transferred from 1020 kHz to 1017 kHz, in response to the adoption of the 9 kHz spacing on AM radio stations in the Philippines under the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975.
In 1986, months into the Corazon Aquino presidency, the station became part of the reinstated Philippine Broadcasting Service under the Bureau of Broadcast Services and changed its call letters to DZLC. In 1989, it started carrying the Radyo ng Bayan branding. In 1992, it changed its call letters to DWLC.
In 2017, in line with PBS’s 70th anniversary celebration, the station started carrying the Radyo Pilipinas branding.
“DWLF” enters the record as radio station in Lucena City. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what DWLF, radio and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5206488. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962, 1972, 1978 and 1020.
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This entry incorporates text from “DWLF” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.