NTC backs proposed non-expiration of franchises with pending renewal

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The NTC backed a proposed measure seeking the non-expiration of franchises with pending renewal in Congress. Read:

“Meron po kasi tayong Act No. 346 stating that kailangan po ng franchise for a public utility to operate. So with this amendment as proposed by Senator Drilon ay malaking bagay po ito to fix that gap in the law” he added.against ABS-CBN after its franchise lapsed, forcing the network to shut its television and radio broadcast operations nationwide.

This, despite NTC’s earlier assurance that it would grant provisional authority to ABS-CBN as Congress deliberates on the network’s pending franchise renewal. In issuing the order, the NTC cited Republic Act No. 3846 or the Radio Control Law, which states that “no person, firm, company, association, or corporation shall construct, install, establish, or operate a radio transmitting station, or radio receiving station used for commercial purposes, or a radio broadcasting station, without having first obtained a franchise therefor from the Congress of the Philippines.

Thus, with the expiration of the Republic Act. No 7966, which granted ABS-CBN a 25-year franchise to operate its TV and radio broadcasting stations, NTC said that ABS-CBN “no longer has a valid and subsisting congressional franchise as required by Act No. 3846.

 

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