Bombo Rádio Koronadal (DXMC)

DXMC Bombo Radyo Koronadal (1026 kHz AM) is the consistent top rater and most listened radio station in Koronadal City and South Cotabato. For twenty six (26) years, Bombo Radyo Koronadal remained to be number one (1) both in Radio & digital platform such as Facebook & You tube. The Research Council survey in 1996 and National Radio Survey of Gio-visual released in May 2007 and the 2018 Kantar Survey can attest to that. Bombo Radyo Koronadal is located at Km. 4, General Santos Drive, City of Koronadal and the Capital of the province of South Cotabato. The City of Koronadal (formerly called Marbel), is the Provincial Agri-industrial Center of the province and also the Regional Center of the SOCSKSARGEN Region.

It is about an hour’s drive or about sixty (60) kilometers north of General Santos City. Its major crops are rice and corn not to include coconuts, mango, camote, cacao, mongo and vegetables. Composed of 27 barangays, it is said to be named after “koron” or “kolon” which means cogon grass and “nadal” which means plain, while its nickname Marbel came from the B’laan term, which means “murky water”.

Bombo Radyo Koronadal was established on November 11, 1995. It is under the People’s Broadcasting Service, Inc of the Bombo Radyo Philippines, the number 1 radio network in the country. It is a news, public affairs and commentary AM radio station catering all walks of life, the A, B, C, D & E economic class. It has a power of 5,000 watts.