The National Telecommunications Commission ordering media giant ABS-CBN to stop operations for lack of a franchise. It was the Government Lawyer Solicitor General Jose Calida who led the charge against the Lopez-owned network. The last time ABS-CBN went off the air was in 1972. The government shut it down when martial law was declared. President Rodrigo Duterte has made no secret of his anger towards the network and the family that owns it: The Lopezes. Duterte claimed ABS-CBN did not air his campaign ads in 2016. In a Senate hearing two months ago, President Carlo Katigback denied not having aired the President’s ads but he apologized.
CNN Philippines talked to NTC Deputy Commissioner Edgardo Cabarios to know more.
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