Years later, when ABS and the Lopez-owned Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN) were formally merged into a single network in 1967, DZAQ 620 kHz switched frequencies with CBN-owned DZXL 960 kHz and was later rebranded as DZAQ Radyo Patrol 960 kHz, one of the pre- martial law flagship AM stations of ABS-CBN until 1972. In 1957, with the opening of the then new ABS radio and television studios in Pasay, the DZAQ radio studios moved there. Its first radio studios were in Manila, sharing the same building with the television studios. Eddie Ilarde, Ike Lozada, German Moreno and Joey de Leon were the personalities of the station at that time. DZAQ 620 kHz featured news, variety and music programs on an AM format which then the progenitor of DZAQ-TV 3. It began on October 19, 1953, when DZAQ, the forerunner of DZMM was the first radio station of the former ABS (Alto Broadcasting System) of the Quirinos under President Elpidio Quirino's brother, Antonio (originally came from the pre-1953 experimental station DZBC), opened its doors as a radio station using the Filipino language in its broadcasts, following what DZBC had done before as the first-ever radio station in Manila using Filipino instead of the English language used by other stations at that time. Radyo Patrol's first literation: the early years
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