WAVE 891

DWAV, broadcasting as Wave 891, is a music FM station owned and operated by Blockbuster Broadcasting System, Inc. in thePhilippines. The station’s studio is located at the Strata 2000 Bldg., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, with its transmitter located along the Coca-Cola Plant at Roosevelt Avenue, San Francisco del Monte, Quezon City. It is a 24-hour operating station except on Mondays where it signs-off at midnight, and except Holy Week of each year where it signs-off at midnight of Maundy Thursday and lasts until midnight of Easter Sunday.

Wave 891 began regular operations shortly on March 1, 2001 as Wave 89.1, after Quest, through a government-sponsored bidding, won the rights to the frequency and the facilities of the defunct and sequestered DZMZ (Danze Muzic Zone 89 DMZ, then owned by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation). Wave 891 continues to use IBC-13′s transmission facilities up to the present.

Managed by former Magic 89.9 jock Rolando Sulit a.k.a. Joe D’Mango, the station began its operations with a pop soul, pop jazz easy listening format. Some months later, its programming gradually shifted to full pop R&B (also known as Rhythmic contemporary). As of 2009, the station started playing hip-hop tunes. In 2008, the point was eliminated from the title and the station became known as Wave 891.

Last January 2010, Wave 891 successfully launched the first Urban Music Awards.