 The operation of its facility was in high-level combined hybrid mode with an existing 35 kW analog transmitter, a new Nautel 1 kW HD Radio transmitter, with the digital exciter, importer and exporter providing the digital signal component.With the acquisition of Radio Mindanao Network by Andrés Soriano, Sr. in 1962, RMN, together with the television network Inter-Island Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) formed its first ever tri-media organization in the Philippines along with newspaper, Philippine Herald.As the "de facto" television arm of the RMN, IBC partnered with the RMN radio stations for coverages of the general elections of 1969 and 1971.