MANILA – Solicitor General Jose Calida praised the House of representatives for the decision to kill the franchise application of ABS-CBN. With the Solicitor General paraphrasing one of lines of Frank Sinatra’s most popular songs, telling the network: “And now, the end has come.”, the House franchise committee voted 70-11 on Friday to reject ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal. According to Calida, …

MANILA – House speaker Alan Peter Cayetano said on Monday that Lawmakers should vote on their conscience on whether they would allow another 25-year franchise to the media titan ABS-CBN. Cayetano said that the house will not be imposing the lawmakers on how they should vote and would just allow the legislators to decide on their own. “Well, I cannot …

MANILA – Senate President Vicente Sotto III and Senator Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday defended the proposed Senate Bill No. 1083, or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2019 and urged the critics to read the proposed bill to realized that all perceived abuses that may be commited has been properly addresed by the lawmakers. According to Senator Ping Lacson, The country is …

MANILA – Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta on Tuesday raised a slew of franchise issues and violations allegedly committed by ABS-CBN as congress opened its hearing on Tuesday on the new franchise application of the media titan. Referencing artist Kim Chui in her viral video clip, “Bawal Lumabas,” Marcoleta accused the network of not complying with the provisions in expired 25-year …

MANILA – Solicitor-General Jose Calida said on Wednesday that Congress and not the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) should be blamed for the network’s shutdown. “Why blame NTC when they are only following the law?” Calida, the Solicitor General said in a statement to the media. “Without a valid and subsisting franchise from Congress, the NTC cannot allow any broadcasting entity …