From March 2001 to June 2003, it was known as Smooth Jazz Citylite 88.3. After 2 years, Raven Broadcasting Corporation was acquired by the Vera family while Francis Lumen moved to Joey Rhythms 92.3. In October 1996, Citylite launched its live streaming on its website. It was also the official radio station of CNN and Asia Business News and was also affiliated with the American expats in the country. 105.1 Crossover and Kiss Jazz 101.1 just followed suit after the success of the station with the A and B crowd. It was the forerunner of R&B, contemporary music and Jazz after an absence of the genre for over 10 years. Eya Perdigon and Wickette handled the daily news broadcasts. The original staff consisted of only 7 radio personalities namely: Pancho Alvarez 6am to 10am, Pinky Aseron 10am to 2 PM, Mike Taylor (Adam Kite) 2pm to 6 pm, Ramon Cruz (Joey Pizza) 6PM to 10 PM and J.Zorrilla (Jlatin) 10pm to 2AM. In October 1988, it changed its call letters to DWCT, and became a fully fledged smooth jazz station, playing smooth jazz, contemporary pieces and rhythm and blues. After several months, more jazz tracks were played than usual. Initially a Soft adult contemporary station, it played a smooth jazz track every hour. It was owned by Francisco Ravina, along with 7 Board members at the launch of the station, namely Gerry Geronimo (host of Ating Alamin), Steve Salonga, Alex Limjuco, Kit Ravina, Francis Lumen, Bong Sierra and Mike Pedero, who was also the program director at the time. On July 26, 1986, the station was inaugurated as Citylite 88.3 with the call letters DWFR.
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