Radyo Pilipinas World Service is back to serve Pinoys abroad thru the shortwave radio !
Radyo Pilipinas World Service (RPWS) comes back stronger and louder with its services that never ceased online and now finally back on the shortwave radio from its eight months silence.
RPWS the overseas broadcast radio station of the Presidential Broadcast Service (PBS) – Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS), under the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) of the Republic of the Philippines has seized operation on the shortwave radio last March 19, 2025 while continuing its online services.
This ensued from United States (US) President Donald Trump's order last March 2025 to stop all United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) broadcast services.
Trump's order has stripped back USAGM's federal funds and placed some of its staff on leave including USAGM Philippines which houses the Voice of America (VOA) facilities responsible for airing RPWS programs through the shortwave radio reaching Filipinos across the world.
RPWS, through the leadership of its Station Manager Mr. Remigio Sampang maintained the overseas broadcast, relentlessly servicing Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and Seafarers online despite shortwave radio limitations and challenges.
With the confirmation from USAGM Philippines, RPWS will resume its broadcast operations over the shortwave radio on December 1, 2025.
The revival of its shortwave radio functionality and the expansion to online radio proved RPWS prevailed against all odds.
Afterall, the radio is not dying but it is evolving and adapting to the modern times. Radyo Pilipinas World Service (RPWS) is an embodiment of this claim.
(Report by Bea Gaza-De Guzman)
Source : Radyo Pilipians on Facebook
