Senate President
Vicente “Tito” Sotto is lukewarm to the actions taken by the House of Representatives
in their bid to grant the Lopez-owned ABS-CBN Corporation a provisional license
to operate for five months.
The Lower house acting
as a committee of whole passed on second reading a bill granting a provisional franchise
to ABS-CBN valid until the end of October 31, 2020.
“Bakit yung franchise
na ina-approve ng House e five months? Ngayon lang ako nakarinig ng five months
na franchise. Twenty-five years kung 25 years. Bakit five months?” Sotto said
in an interview on TeleRadyo.
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| Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto (photo credit to owner) |
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC )
issued last May 5 a cease and desist order to ABS-CBN, that paved the way for
the media television network to shutdown its television and radio broadcast
operations.
The original
legislative franchise expired May 4, and the bills seeking for its renewal has
been sleeping in the committee level in the House of Representatives.
It was expected that if
the bill would be approved the television giant can start its broadcast operations
by sometime in June, and while Congress deliberates the big question whether or
not they will grant ABS-CBN for another 25 years for its legislative franchise.
The Senate President
said hearings on the provisional franchise can start next week.
“Kung hindi maaabala
yung committee of the whole namin ng Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, any of those
three days, pwede nang pagusapan on second reading. Yun ang nakikita ko…The
week of (May) 25th, pwedeng i-second reading or the latest is the third reading
on that week. Ganun ang pinakamagandang pwedeng mangyari,” he added.
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