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Cinco de Mayo: ABS-CBN workers recall shutdown
By AMALYN ANACIO and JON ERNST PASCUAL
MANILA Journalists and media workers of television giant ABS-CBN held an online solidarity night on May 5, a year after the network was denied its franchise to air on free television.
“There is still pain whenever I recall what happened in the past year,” Mycle Mella, a former employee of its Regional Network Group in Bicol, said during the program organized by the ABS-CBN chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP).
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Workers of ABS-CBN and members of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines rally to show support for the broadcaster in Manila on May 5, 2020 (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) shut down ABS-CBN’s free TV and radio operations on May 5, 2020, a day after its franchise was left to expire despite a long-pending renewal application at the House of Representatives.
A month later, NCT served two cease-and-desist orders against the network’s digital broadcast in Metro Manila and its sister company Sky Cable’s direct broadcast satellite service nationwide.
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