House to decide on new ABS-CBN franchise 'by August' – Cayetano

ABS-CBN CLOSURE. Several ABS-CBN supporters light candles in front of the network's Quezon City headquarters after it was ordered shut down on May 5, 2020. File photo by Angie de Silva/Rappler

MANILA, Philippines – Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano said the House “should be ready to decide” on the grant of a fresh 25-year franchise to ABS-CBN in August, which means the network would have to stay off-air for another 3 months.moved to drop the bill that would have granted the media giant a provisional franchise“I foresee that the hearings would not go beyond July, and by August, after President Duterte’s SONA, we should be ready to decide,” Cayetano said.

House committee on legislative franchises chair Franz Alvarez told Rappler on Wednesday, May 20, that their next ABS-CBN hearing is already scheduled on Tuesday, May 26. The Speaker said the House panel would likely finish the hearings after President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his 5th State of the Nation Address in late July.

Cayetano made the announcement even after ABS-CBN president and CEO Carlo Katigbak told senators the day before that the media giant may beginCayetano said the panel will be looking into “no more than 10 issues” hounding ABS-CBN, including the network’s alleged violations of tax and labor laws as well as its franchise terms, and its supposed foreign ownership.

Sarado na ang ABSCBN. Ang channel two(2) gagamitin ng gobyerno para sa education tv. Ang avaible chanel ay chanel 300 na lang.

Tsk tsk

Don’t trust alanpcayetano. He is just fooling you. In the past, the “slavers” read bibles and mentioned God as often as they could to their slaves and made their slaves believe that what they were doing were in accordance to what’s written in the Bible&then whipped their

Congress should not be READY to tackle ABS franchise unless COVID will SUBSIDE and that is the PRIORITY as for the welfare of Filipinos at stake not just for the sake of kapamilya believers.

Hearing delayed is justice denied. Vote wisely in 2022.

Pffft. Ban this shit or rename it. YesToABSCBNShutdown

Prangkisa ❤💚💙

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