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The late rapper, Francis Magalona, worked with the station beginning in 1994[4] through his program, "The Word-up Show", which aired on Saturday nights.

[5] From May 2000, in what was the first in the country's broadcasting, the station simulcast a Tuesday primetime variety show of IBC-13, DMZTV, whose format is similar to that of MTV.

[6][7] The station was among those assets of the Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation which had been sequestered by the Aquino administration through the newly-formed Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG); with the network's privatization being planned since mid-1990s.

[8][9] The station was eventually acquired by the Vera Group though Blockbuster Broadcasting System, Inc. in a bidding held by the Presidential Commission on Good Government in December 2000.

Wave 89.1 began regular broadcast on March 1, 2001, simultaneous with a media launch in a hotel in Makati.

It was officially launched on April 24, 2024 under the Adventist World Radio network, though occasionally dubbed as AWR on Wave 89.1.

Logo in 2009
Logo in 2015