{"id":261148,"date":"2020-07-10T04:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=261148"},"modified":"2025-01-29T04:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:43:22","slug":"house-panel-junks-abs-cbns-bid-for-a-25-year-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/10\/house-panel-junks-abs-cbns-bid-for-a-25-year-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"House panel junks ABS-CBN\u2019s bid for a 25-year franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244725\" style=\"width: 2047px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4934145455_1542c5031d_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-244725 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4934145455_1542c5031d_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4934145455_1542c5031d_k.jpg 2047w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4934145455_1542c5031d_k-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4934145455_1542c5031d_k-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4934145455_1542c5031d_k-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By a 70-11 vote, with one abstention, the panel, chaired by Palawan Rep. Franz Alvarez, approved the resolution denying the franchise application of ABS-CBN Corp.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy deltasone online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/deltasone.html\">https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/deltasone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy trazodone online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/trazodone.html\">https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/trazodone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> to construct, install, establish, operate, and maintain radio and broadcasting stations in the Philippines. Two other lawmakers inhibited from voting. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ppapadimitriou\/4934145455\/\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ppapadimitriou\/\">Paul Papadimitriou\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; The House committee on legislative franchises on Friday denied the application of media giant ABS-CBN Corp. for a new 25-year franchise.<\/p>\n<p>By a 70-11 vote, with one abstention, the panel, chaired by Palawan Rep. Franz Alvarez, approved the resolution denying the franchise application of ABS-CBN Corp. to construct, install, establish, operate, and maintain radio and broadcasting stations in the Philippines. Two other lawmakers inhibited from voting.<\/p>\n<p>Cebu Rep. Pablo John Garcia said the technical working group that drafted the resolution has determined that the &#8220;likely consensus&#8221; among the panel members was to disapprove the application ABS-CBN for another franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The previous House hearings have exhaustively discussed the network\u2019s franchise issues, including the citizenship of ABS-CBN chair emeritus Gabby Lopez; the possible violation of the constitutional limits on foreign ownership; reported labor and tax violations; and other violations of the terms of its legislative franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution emphasized that the network\u2019s franchise application is not a press freedom issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is what it is&#8211;a denial of a privilege granted by the State because the applicant was seen as undeserving of the grant of a legislative franchise,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8211; The House committee on legislative franchises on Friday denied the application of media giant ABS-CBN Corp. for a new &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":244725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2,1145,54365,16,46,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment","category-headline","category-instagram","category-news","category-entertainment-ph","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286686,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261148\/revisions\/286686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}