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Philippines marks centennial anniversary of broadcasting

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Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Noli de Castro reports in front of the camera as TV Patrol airs online on May 7, 2020, two days after the National Telecommunications Commission sent a cease and desist order to ABS-CBN. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/03/01/20200507-tv-patrol-jc-7335.jpg"/><figcaption>Noli de Castro reports in front of the camera as TV Patrol airs online on May 7, 2020, two days after the National Telecommunications Commission sent a cease and desist order to ABS-CBN. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — Broadcasting has reached a milestone in the Philippines this 2022 as it reached its 100th year, an academic institution said.</p><p>&quot;One of the oldest in the world and the oldest in Asia, radio broadcasting in the Philippines began in 1922 during the American colonial period,&quot; the University of the Philippines Department of Broadcast Communication said Monday.</p><p>&quot;Through that period and the periods that followed—World War II, postwar years, martial rule, post-Marcos years, and until the present—an amid the challenges of television and the Internet, Philippine radio has survived, grown, and evolved,&quot; the UP Dept. of BroadComm said in a statement.</p><p>The start of television broadcasting in the Philippines followed in 1953, according to the UP institution.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/10/08/16/30-things-you-may-not-know-about-dzmm">30 things you may not know about DZMM</a></li></ul><p>&quot;Crossing geographic and cultural borders, both radio and television have followed our fellow Filipinos in the diaspora,&quot; it said. </p><p>&quot;The voices and images have touched our political and social lives; their songs have brought Filipino music and musical talent to a global stage; their narratives of our lives have made us imagine ourselves as a nation, even if dispersed across physical and other boundaries.&quot;</p><p>The centenary of broadcasting in the country will be marked with a series of activities by the UP Dept. of BroadComm, in partnership with DZUP, UP Diliman, UP Visayas and the Philippine Studies Association.</p><p>These include an academic conference, public lectures and webinars, and the development of an archives of broadcasting in the Philippines.</p><p>This month, the UP Dept. of BroadComm will launch the series, &quot;Pag-uugat, Pagpapatuloy: Ang epikong Dumaracol sa DZUP.&quot;</p><p>The official launch of the event &quot;100 Years of Broadcasting in the Philippines&quot; will take place in June.</p><p>Academics, researchers and students are expected to gather for a conference later this year on Oct. 18-21, &quot;which will generate new knowledge about broadcasting in the Philippines, both its cultural practice and its teaching as an academic discipline.&quot;</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5dJyL-XJkyA?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

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Philippines marks centennial anniversary of broadcasting

Davinci Maru,

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Published March 01, 2022 03:18 PM PHT

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