Editing History of broadcasting (section)

=== Philippines ===
Interest in amateur radio was noted in the Philippines in the early 1920s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Signals Heard by Island|newspaper=Portland Oregonian|date=March 15, 1925|page=9}}</ref>  There were radio stations operating in the Philippines, including one owned by American businessman named Henry Hermann, as early as 1922, according to some sources; not much documentation about that period of time exists.  In the autumn of 1927, KZRM in Manila, owned by the Radio Corporation of the Philippines, went on the air.<ref>{{cite news|title=Manila Goes on the Air to Entertain the Orient|newspaper=New York Times|date=October 2, 1927|page=XX18|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/10/02/archives/manila-goes-on-the-air-to-entertain-the-orient-waves-of-kzrm-spread.html}}</ref> The Radio Corporation of the Philippines was a subsidiary of American company RCA (Radio Corporation of America).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/02/13/archives/to-open-manila-studio-radio-corporation-subsidiary-will-operate.html|title=To Open Manila Studio|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 13, 1927|page=E18}}</ref> By 1932, the island had three radio stations: KRZC in Cebu, as well as KZIB (owned by a department store) and KZFM, the government-owned station in Manila. Of the stations listed by Pierre Key, KZFM was the strongest, with 50,000 watts.<ref>Pierre Key's Radio Annual, 1933 edition, pp. 269-270.</ref>  Two radio networks were ultimately created:  one, the Manila Broadcasting Company, began as a single station, KZRH in Manila, in July 1939, and after World War II, in 1946, the station's owners began to develop their network by buying other radio properties. As for the Philippine Broadcasting Company, it too began with one station (KZFM), and received its new name in mid-1946, after the Philippines became an independent country. At the end of 1946, the new network had six stations.<ref>{{cite journal|title=KZPI Power Will Go to 10 KW on January 1|journal=Broadcasting Magazine|date=December 16, 1946|page=30}}</ref>  Both KZRH and KZFM also affiliated with American networks; the stations wanted to have access to certain popular American programs, and the American networks wanted to sell products in the Philippines.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Advertisement for KZRH: The Voice of the Philippines|journal=Broadcasting Magazine|date=December 16, 1946|page=55}}</ref>