(LC, May 20, 2010) - Dr Adrian Peterson research about radio in Asia discovered a Italian voice on a Philippine broadcasting station in 1941...

Station KZRH was inaugurated in July 1939 with 1 kW on any of three different shortwave channels. The callsign KZRH identified their slogan, Radio Heacock. On their second anniversary, they made a special broadcast with the Italian passenger liner, Benemato, which carried the Philippine callsign KZSN.

Dr. Peterson also produced a list of all of the shortwave broadcasting stations that were on the air in the Philippines at the end of the year 1941:-
Manila
KZIB 1 kW Mr. I. Beck
KZND .6 National Defense
KZRA (?) 1 Radio Broadcast, station A (?), mobile
KZRB 1 Radio Broadcast (?), mobile
KZRF 1 Radio Filipinas
KZRH 1 @ 1 kW & 1 @ 10 kW Radio Heacock
KZRM 1 Radio Manila

Cebu
KZRC 1 Radio Cebu

Full article is published on:
http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/2010/05/nostalgic-look-at-early-shorwave.html

A story of Radio Heacock, the oldest still operating radio station in the Philippines, is on:
http://www.videolife.tk/video/B6VABbxX2ow/DZRH-KZRH-Before-DZRH-Today-A-Story-of-Philippine-s-Oldest-Radio-Station.html