BAGUIO, PHILIPPINES - Anchor Dhobie de Guzman has been the face of a popular news show in the northern Philipines for more than a decade. Now the closure of his regional station - and dozens of others countrywide - has left him out of work.
"It's painful," Mr de Guzman, 43, told AFP last Friday after presenting the final"TV Patrol North Luzon" in a studio 240km from the capital Manila. ABS-CBN, which is owned by the wealthy Lopez family, has broadcast continuously since 1953 except between 1972 and 1986 when it was seized by dictator Ferdinand Marcos - who Mr Duterte admires.
In the months since losing its free-to-air permit, ABS-CBN has kept showing many of its popular news and drama programmes on cable TV and online. After the closure of the regional stations on Friday, more parts of the network will be shuttered on Monday and many of its stars are expected to move on.'BLACK DAY'
The Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines has described the closure of ABS-CBN's regional stations as a"black day for independent media" in the country.
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