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Pacific Broadcasting System

Subsidiary of MBC Media Group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7122326
Source-derived summary

Pacific Broadcasting System (PBSI) is a radio broadcast company in the Philippines. It is part of the FJE Group of Companies of the Elizalde family, which also operates hotels and Pasay-based amusement park Star City. Pacific Broadcasting's stations are being operated by Elizalde-owned TV and radio network MBC Media Group. Most of its AM stations in key provinces are relay stations of DZRH, while its flagship AM station is DXGO, a radio station in Davao City broadcasting as Aksyon Radyo Davao. PBSI's flagship FM station is DWYS 101.1 Manila which also serves as the flagship affiliate station to MBC's Yes FM Network, with most of its FM stations in the provinces are affiliated with MBC's other FM networks (Love Radio, Easy Rock and Radyo Natin).

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“Pacific Broadcasting System” enters the record as subsidiary of MBC Media Group. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pacific, Broadcasting and System can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Pacific Broadcasting System” 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.