Interview Question for DZME Station

Background
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How and when was the Company founded?

Why do you choose to operate an AM radio station over FM?
Who owned the DZME Radyo Uno?
Why is that AM broadcasting focus mostly on news and current affairs unlike in FM which is intended for
music?
What is the approximate distance coverage of the DZME radio station?
Why is that DZMEs transmitter located in Obando, Bulacan?

Technical Preferences
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Stated in your site that from 4 pm onwards the rest of the country- as far as Zamboanga, General Santos,
Surigao, the rest of Mindanao and Visayas, Hong Kong, Brunei,Taiwan, Australia could receive your
signals, why is that there is a specific time that your station could cover those places?
8. Are you one of AM stations changing their operations particularly with their transmitting power, depending
on whether it is day-time or night-time?
9. What are the advantages of using AM over FM?
10. AM broadcast band is located in a very vulnerable medium wave frequency band, thus it is subject to
much higher levels of noise than are other modes, what are your techniques in dealing with this unwanted
signal?
11. Do you have any substations in your operations?
12. What are the factors to be considered in designing radio station studio?
Maintenance Procedure
13. How do you conduct maintenance and calibration of your equipments? Do you have any alternatives when
conducting calibration or maintenance to prevent station shutdown?
14. What tools are you using for calibration of your equipments?
15. How often did you calibrate your equipments?
16. What will you do if you found the equipment out of tolerance?
17. What are the problems you had encountered during operations? How do you manage to solve those
problems?
18. When was the last time you upgrade your system? What is your basis that your system needs upgrading?

Latest Technology or Trends

19. What are the state of the art equipments that further improve your broadcasting? How these machines
improve your operations?
20. What are your insights about the possibility of digital being the main platform for radio or new standards
for transmission including DAB Digital Audio Broadcast?
21. In case of major switchover, are you willing to shift to Compatible Amplitude Modulation which is a hybrid
digital radio format for AM broadcasting?