How we checked Star FM Manila
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 4 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Star FM Manila is one station in the Star FM network of Bombo Radyo Philippines, and the network describes the brand in its own words on its rate card: "Star FM is the music station of Bombo Radyo Philippines". Where Bombo Radyo's own AM stations are news and talk on medium wave, Star FM is the group's FM music service. The network's About text credits the whole enterprise, "Bombo Radyo and Star FM", to fifty years of work "through the stewardship of Dr. Rogelio M. Florete, the Chairman", and says the group broadcasts from 24 key cities and provinces nationwide. Everything below is the Manila station's own entry only.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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Artists
none established. The station's live stream, as published by the operator, transmits an empty track title, so there is no playlist to read; and the network site publishes no now-playing or recently played list for it.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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Contact route
Almost none, and not for want of looking. The network publishes exactly one route, an email address on the bomboradyo.info domain, tucked into the About Us block of its own site, plus its own Facebook, X and YouTube accounts. There is no contact page at all: /contact-us/, /about-us/ and /about/ all return 404 on the network's own site, and /contact resolves to an unrelated news article. There is no Manila studio telephone number, no request line and no text number anywhere. For the network's largest station that absence is itself the finding. No CONTACT_URL line follows, because there is no contact page to point at.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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Era
Not published.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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Music
Music, in the operator's own single-line description of the brand.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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Language
not established, and deliberately not guessed. The network publishes no statement of what language Star FM Manila speaks on air, and its live stream carries no metadata to judge by. Its own website defaults to Filipino, with a separate "ENGLISH Edition" section, but that is the language of the group's news website rather than of this music station's output, and inferring one from the other is the kind of near miss this catalogue has been burned by.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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Kind
A live FM music service, confirmed live: the operator's published stream answers and delivers audio at 96 kbps AAC. Whether it is presenter-led or automated is not stated anywhere on the operator's site and I have not guessed.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
This is the network's flagship by the numbers it publishes itself. Its rate is roughly three and a half times the next Star FM station's, its transmitter power and its listed generator capacity are given where most entries give less, and its secondary coverage alone spans ten provinces.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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Where
Metro Manila, Philippines, on 102.7 MHz, call sign DWSM, at 25,000 watts. The operator publishes the coverage itself as "PRIMARY: Metro Manila" and "SECONDARY: Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Tarlac, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Southern part of Quezon, Marinduque".
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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On air
none published. I looked on the network's own station navigation, its rate card entry for this station, and its live stream listing. Nobody is named for Manila.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
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Programmes
none published. The network's site carries no schedule, show list or programme page for Star FM Manila, and I have not borrowed any from another city.
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Bombo Radyo Philippines, on its own Rate Card & Coverage page headed "RATE CARD STAR FM" | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| homepage url | http://www.bomboradyo.com/starfmmanila/ → cleared | the stored address answers HTTP 404, checked 2026-09-27 |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| The output, presenters, shows and frequencies of every other Star FM station | The network bleed risk on this row was real and the rate card puts the temptation on one page. Its own Star FM list runs Manila 102.7, Baguio 89.5, Dagupan 100.7, Cebu 95.5, Bacolod 95.9, Iloilo 99.5, Roxas 103.7, Davao 96.3, Cotabato 93.7, Zamboanga 93.9 and Dipolog 93.3, each with its own call sign. Manila's entry alone is used above.
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| Bombo Radyo's own news operation, journalists and AM station detail | Those belong to the group's AM news network, a different service on medium wave, not to this FM music station. The 22 city stations in the site's own navigation are Bombo Radyo outlets and not one of them is Manila, which is why this row first looked unbindable.
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| A homepage_url proposal | Star FM Manila has no page of its own anywhere. The only Manila-specific material on the operator's site is its entry on the network rate card and its row in the network's live stream player. Neither is a homepage, and substituting the parent network's front page for a station page is the move this catalogue does not want, so I have proposed nothing and the field stays empty.
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| A language code | See LANGUAGE above. I would rather leave the field unset than put a plausible guess into a catalogue that has wrongly refused correct answers before. NOTE ON BINDING: the row is bound. The operator's own live stream listing pairs the label "Star FM Manila" with a specific stream, and that stream's own server metadata returns icy-name "102.7 Star FM Manila", matching the 102.7 MHz and DWSM on the operator's rate card. The adjacent entry resolves to icy-name "89.5 Star FM Baguio" against the rate card's 89.5 MHz and DWIM, so the two are cleanly distinct and nothing has been crossed over. If the catalogue holds no stream_url for this row, the operator publishes it at https://stream.zeno.fm/536cwdq78heuv.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Star FM Manila — listed via Radio Browser · http://www.bomboradyo.com/starfmmanila/