DYIO (101.1 FM) - broadcasting as Y101 - is a radio station owned by GVM Radio/TV Corporation and operated under airtime lease and shared sales agreements by Y2H Broadcasting Network, Inc.[1] The station's studio and transmitter are located at the BSP Camp, Capitol Hills, Brgy. Lahug, Cebu City.[2][3][4]
Y2H also provides certain services in Cebu through local XFM outlet DYAP (88.3 MHz) and local Solid FM outlet DYBN (92.3 MHz; sharing facilities with DYIO) under separate airtime lease and sales agreements with station owners Southern Broadcasting Network and Quest Broadcasting, respectively.
History
DYIO's former studio at the Gaisano Country Mall
DYIO began test transmissions in 1979 and made its inaugural broadcast on March 1, 1980, under the ownership of Emilio Remedios Tuason's Trans-Radio Broadcasting Corporation, the original owner of Manila-based 99.5 RT. The station's original studio was located at Danaque Building along Osmeña Blvd.[citation needed]
Tuason and his cousin Binggoy Remedios were the station's first voices on the air. Y101 adapted 99.5 RT's CHR/Top 40 format and iconic slogan "The Rhythm of the City".
Y101's ownership was transferred in 1990 to GVM Radio/TV Corporation, owned by Emilio's sister Martha Tuason. It also changed its slogan to "Always First" and "Red Hot Radio" in March 2023.[5]
In 2024, GVM struck an airtime lease and shared sales-marketing agreement with Y2H Broadcasting Network, the owners of XFM. This brought Y101 into the portfolio of the broadcast company ran by Dr. Remelito Uy, which already operates local XFM outlet DYAP-FM (owned by Southern Broadcasting Network).
In April 2025, Y101 transferred its studios to the BSP Camp (which houses studio facilities of erstwhile CHR rival 92.3 FM) after its 2-decade broadcast from Gaisano Country Mall. Y2H took over that station's operations earlier January after its owner Quest Broadcasting agreed to sell airtime to the said company.
On May 18, 2025, Y101 began simulcasting on 92.3 FM as a temporary service, bearing the name RedHotX92 (a nod to Y101's long-time identity); Y2H would later relaunch that station as 92.3 Solid FM Cebu four months later on September 15, 2025 carrying the XFM's sister radio brand. Further changes were implemented on the station such as the addition of gospel music on Saturdays as The Light on Y101, mirroring the main XFM's Gospel Hour - owing to the Uy family's affiliation with the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement.
See also
99.5 XFM Manila - Manila's sister station of XFM 88.3, Y101 and Solid FM 92.3 in this city.
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