MANILA, May 5 — The Philippines’ telecoms body today ordered the country’s leading broadcaster ABS-CBN Corp to cease operations immediately, saying its license had expired. President Rodrigo Duterte has regularly criticised ABS-CBN, in what opposition lawmakers and activists have described as...
Tuesday, 05 May 2020 05:18 PM MYTMANILA, May 5 — The Philippines’ telecoms body today ordered the country’s leading broadcaster ABS-CBN Corp to cease operations immediately, saying its license had expired.
President Rodrigo Duterte has regularly criticised ABS-CBN, in what opposition lawmakers and activists have described as an attack on independent media. The National Telecommunications Commission said ABS-CBN’s 25-year congressional license expired on May 4. The company has 10 days to respond and say why frequencies assigned to it should not be recalled, it added.
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