Philippines ABS-CBN TV network ordered shut
Philippines’ largest television network has been ordered to cease operations after President Duterte’s allies in Congress refused to renew station’s 25-year licence.
ABS-CBN, the Philippines’s largest television network, has been ordered to cease operations after President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies in Congress refused to renew the station’s 25-year licence.
In an order issued on Tuesday, the government agency tasked with awarding broadcasting licences said “absent a valid Congressional Franchise, as required by law”, the network should stop its various television and radio operations.
Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports.
Published On 5 May 2020