Tag: ABS-CBN shutdown

SC junks ABS-CBN Corp.’s petition vs NTC shutdown order for being moot

(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court has junked the petition filed by ABSCBN Corp. against the National Telecommunications Commission cease and desist order that prompted  the media giant’s shutdown of operations in May. The en banc voted unanimously to dismiss the petition for certiorari and prohibition with application for temporary restraining order and injunction due to mootness, in light of the supervening denial of the pending House bills for the renewal of ABS-CBN Corporation’s legislative franchise on […]

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Drilon to file concurrent reso for ABS-CBN to operate until “end of 18th Congress or rejection of franchise application”

(Eagle News) — Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday, Feb. 25, said he would file a concurrent resolution expressing “Congress’ sentiment” that ABS-CBN be granted a provisional authority to operate until the end of the 18th Congress in 2022 or until Congress rejects the network’s application for a franchise. Drilon made the revelation in a radio interview, after Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Congress, through the concurrent resolution, could authorize the National Telecommunications Commission […]

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