The NTC admitted to senators that the bid of Solicitor General Jose Calida to revoke the franchise of broadcast giant ABS-CBN was a factor in its decision to issue a cease-and-desist order against the network. | CMRamosINQ
over alleged violations through a quo warranto petition filed before the Supreme Court.
“Kaya po medyo naging untenable on our part to let it continue because of the clear letter of the law in Republic Act 3846,” Cordoba added. Cordoba was referring to 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.
This, despite NTC’s earlier assurance that it would grant ABS-CBN a provisional authority to operate as Congress deliberates on the network’s pending franchise renewal.
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