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For several decades now, radio modulations on community bands have been
fragmented and without direction, with most frequencies so occupied with unnecessary
modulations or stymied by jammers that when the need calls for immediate radio
assistance for relay of urgent messages, the responsible communicator when available,
could hardly cope with exigency. Sadly, most of the time he was unavailable. To help
remedy the situation, some responsible communicators banded themselves into a
developmental radio group that is truly responsive to the needs of the community. In the
early 1990's, Gil de la Torre received a portable radio, Icom 02AT from Ariel Suguitan,
and his dream of utilizing radio for social change since then begins . He first founded
Mediacom as radio group. Its name can be traced back from civic organization which
he founded--Media Dynamics in 1975. This organization had assisted poor but
deserving students pursued their studies in college thru sponsorship of several
kindhearted individuals and philanthropists.
Gil de la Torre, as Kabalikat Founder, had organized 51 chapters nationwide until 1993.
Aside from Radiocom, he had also organized several radio communications groups in
Metro Manila to assist Kabalikat in communication linkages and services for effective
networking. Among these are: Kamagong Radio Assistance Group (KRAG) based in
Cubao, QC, Lakas Antipolo Radio Communicators League (LARCOM) in Antipolo,
Rizal; Youth Assistance Civic Action Group (YACAG) in Sampaloc, Manila; Group of
Youth Assistance Communicators (GRAYCOM) Paco; He also assisted in the
establishment of CAVERS, a CB-VHF radio communicators in Montalban, Rizal.
From 1990 to 1992, the Founder had organized 51 chapters. But in the later part of 1993, a
certain quarter in the Manila chapter, (this was the first group established by De la Torre),
created disunity and do not live up to the Kabalikat ideals. To unify the Kabalikat and
preserve its nationwide existence, Celso P. Corpuz Kabalikat (18.00) assisted the Founder in
strengthening the organizational setup and called for a national assembly on May 1, 1994 in
Olongapo City. It should be noted that 50 out of 51 Kabalikat existing chapters signified
adherence to the renaming of the group into Kabalikat Civicom and recognizing it as the
national organization. Today, Kabalikat Civicom developed into a nationwide
communication network of civic communicators, became a PRIME MOVER that
immediately, or at the soonest possible time, responded to any exigencies or emergencies that
arose. Since then, the Kabalikat Civicom, in a concerted effort to relate public need of
development to responsible community communication, established network or radio
assistance stations in various sectors of the locality. The work of educating the people in
the dynamics of nationhood has become the primary program plans of Kabalikat network
of communicators.
The Organization was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the
National Telecommunications Commission as the Kabalikat Civicom Association,
Incorporated by the following incorporators: Gil de la Torre, Celso P. Corpuz, Engr.
Silver Abubo, Dr. Cezail F. Villanueva, Leandro L. Lazaro, Diego Magpantay Jr,
Vedasto Dayan, Francisco Morales, Hilario Pasag, Dean Edgar Geniza and Joed Tividad.