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SC rules: MORE Power’s franchise is constitutional

The Supreme Court said Wednesday it affirmed the constitutionality of the legislative franchise granted to MORE Electric and Power Corp. as a distribution utility...

Palace respects NTC’s recall of ABS’ frequencies

Malacañang on Friday said it respects the decision of the National Telecommunications Commission to recall the television and radio frequencies assigned to ABS-CBN Corp,...

Opposition: President showed hand in ABS-CBN franchise denial

Opposition lawmakers on Monday did not discount the possibility that President Rodrigo Duterte was behind the decision of the House of Representatives panel that...

‘ABS-CBN frequencies remain untouchable’

One of the authors of a bill renewing ABS-CBN’s franchise on Thursday dumped the proposal for the government’s temporary use of ABS-CBN’s television and...

Palace: Not true Rody’s Jolo speech edited

Malacañang on Wednesday denied it edited the speech of President Rodrigo Duterte during his visit to Jolo, Sulu, on Monday, skipping some lines in...

Iloilo’s business groups reject PECO power firm

Business and transport groups called on Panay Electric Co. (PECO) to accept that it no longer has the franchise and permit to operate as...

ABS-CBN to retrench employees in August

ABS-CBN Corp. said Wednesday it will start laying off workers by Aug. 31 after it failed to secure a new franchise from Congress. “With the...

Pathetic support for ABS-CBN

"I say it’s baloney."     Santa Banana, the junking of no less than 13 bills filed at the House of Representatives for the renewal of the...

Victory against the oligarchs

"The President was angry—and proud."     Visiting elite army troops in troubled Jolo, capital of the Sulu archipelago, 1,544 kilometers southwest of Manila on Monday, July...

Alan: ’ABS’ owners to blame

Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday blamed the owners of media giant ABS-CBN for the network’s “inevitable” shutdown. In a Facebook post, Cayetano claimed that...

ABS-CBN

"How the Lopezes decide this one—whether to stay in or move out of broadcasting—is not a question of press freedom, but one of commercial...

Parent shame

"Do we scorn these kids for disrespect, or laud them for their independence of mind?"   Ultimately, it’s not your constituents, not your handlers, not your...

3 of 4 Filipinos want ABS-CBN to reopen–poll

A Social Weather Stations survey found that three out of four Filipinos, or 75 percent of those polled, favored renewing ABS-CBN's franchise, and over...

It never was about press freedom

"Please stop fooling everyone."     With the decision of the House of Representatives to deny television network giant ABS-CBN its franchise, the network’s four thousand workers...
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