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(Eagle News) – Media giant ABS-CBN Corporation signed off Tuesday night, at 7:52 p.m., after its TV Patrol news program, after it was served a cease and desist order by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) on May 5, a day after its legislative franchise expired. In a video statement, ABS CBN President and CEO Carlo Katigbak said the network is stopping its operations since the NTC did not issue a license for them to […]
(Eagle News)–The National Telecommunications Commission has issued a cease and desist order against ABSCBN Corp. In ordering the media giant to stop operating its radio and TV stations nationwide, the NTC noted RA 7966, its congressional franchise, had expired on May 4. ABSCBN Corp. was also ordered to show cause in ten days why the frequencies specified by the NTC should not be recalled absent the congressional franchise. “Failure to respond within the period herein […]
Palace to just wait for NTC’s decision on sought for provisional authority for media giant, as legislative franchise expires by midnight (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte will not intervene in the issue of the legislative franchise of media giant, ABS-CBN, which is due to expire midnight later, according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque. Roque said that Malacanang will just wait for the decision of the National Telecommuncations Commission (NTC) since Solicitor General Jose […]
Resolution expressing “sense of the Senate” for NTC provisional authority is while Congress deliberates bills seeking ABS-CBN franchise renewal (Eagle News) – The Senate approved on Wednesday, March 4, a resolution expressing its view that the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) should grant ABS-CBN a provisional authority to operate as Congress tackles various bills seeking to renew its expiring franchise. Senate Resolution No. 6 approved in plenary session expresses the “sense of the Senate” on […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives will start on March 10 its hearings on the pending bills seeking to renew the legislative franchise of ABS-CBN Corporation, according to House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano. Cayetano, on Wednesday, March 4, said that the first hearing to be conducted by the House Committee on Legislative Franchises next Tuesday, will set ground rules on the proceedings. The ABS-CBN legislative franchise is set to expire on May 4, 2020. […]
(Eagle News)–The Senate will follow a process in the grant of franchises to public utilities, Senate President Tito Sotto said on Saturday, Feb. 29. Sotto said, after all, that “we cannot do away with certain steps to fast-track the process, or else we can be unjustly accused of currying favors to specific parties.” “We will maintain an unbiased treatment to organizations asking for renewal of their franchise. We were elected to serve and protect the […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News) — The House Committee on Legislative Franchise began on Monday, Feb. 24, its preliminary proceedings on the bills seeking to renew ABS-CBN’s legislative franchise so it could operate for another 25 years. Panel chair Palawan Rep. Franz Alvarez also announced that they would start to accept position papers for and against the franchise renewal. But he said that the hearing for this would happen either in May or in August. In the meantime, […]
(Eagle News) – Senate Minority leader Franklin Drilon has filed a resolution seeking to extend the legislative franchise of media giant ABS-CBN until end of year 2022. Drilon, in the Senate Joint Resolution No. 11, said there was a need for more time to review the application for the renewal by ABS-CBN of its franchise which ends on March 30 this year. He said the lives of some 11,000 workers would be affected in case […]
(Eagle News) — Solicitor General Jose Calida was just doing his job when he filed the quo warranto petition against ABS-CBN, the Palace said on Thursday, Feb. 13. According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, the filing of the petition against the network was done only now because according to Calida himself, “ngayon ko lang nakita na may violation.” Panelo said if Calida did not file the petition, “siya naman ang idedemanda.” He said the Solicitor […]
(Eagle News) – The Office of the Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court on Monday, Feb. 10, to cancel and revoke the existing franchise of ABS-CBN corporation and its subsidiary by filing a quo warranto petition with the high court. “We want to put an end to what we discovered to be highly abusive practices of ABS-CBN benefitting a greedy few at the expense of millions of its loyal subscribers. These practices have gone unnoticed […]
(Eagle News) – The Legislative Franchise Committee of the House of Representatives has failed to submit a report on a pending bill for the renewal of the legislative franchise of television-radio network ABS-CBN Corporation which expires on March 30 next year. House Bill 4349 sought to renew ABS-CBN’s franchise which is expiring in nine months. It was filed in the 17th Congress by Nueva Ecija 2nd district representative Micaela Violago, as a follow-up of […]
