Tag: cease and desist order

NTC stops ABSCBN Corp.’s Channel 43 ops

Cease and desist order also issued vs ABSCBN subsidiary Sky Cable Corp. (Eagle News)–The National Telecommunications Commission has ordered ABSCBN Corp. to immediately cease and desist from operating its digital transmission in Metro Manila using Channel 43, and Sky Cable Corporation, an ABSCBN subsidiary, its direct broadcast satellite service. In issuing the order against Channel 43, the NTC noted that the May 5 cease and desist order it issued against ABSCBN Corp. following the expiration […]

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NTC: ABS-CBN petition vs shutdown order “improper,” “premature”

(Eagle News) — ABS-CBN’s petition for certiorari and prohibition is improper because the National Telecommunications Commission’s issuance of a cease and desist order stopping several of its radio and television operations was merely an administrative act, the NTC said. In its comment to ABS-CBN’s petition for certiorari and prohibition against the shutdown order, the commission added that  the filing of the ABS-CBN petition was not the proper recourse since such a petition is available under […]

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Palace says ABS-CBN free to exhaust all legal remedies available to it after NTC’s cease and desist order

(Eagle News) – Broadcast network ABS-CBN is free to exhaust all legal remedies available, in view of the cease-and-desist order issued against it by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) due to the expiration of its franchise, Malacanang said on Tuesday, May 5. “The Palace notes that the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has issued a Cease and Desist Order against ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation for lack of a valid legislative franchise. ABS-CBN is free to exhaust all […]

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QC gov’t lifts cease and desist order on MRT-7 station construction

(Eagle News)–The Quezon City government on Friday, Feb. 28, lifted the cease and desist order it had issued on the above-ground construction of the Metro Rail Transit 7  Quezon Memorial Circle station. “Ni-lift na po ng city government ang cease and desist order ngayon dahil natuwa naman po kami na binigyang-halaga ang aming concerns,” QC Mayor Joy Belmonte said. Belmonte issued the statement after the QC government, and its stakeholders – – environmentalists, representatives from […]

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