ABS-CBN is a Philippine commercial broadcast network that serves as the flagship property of the ABS-CBN Corporation,a company under Lopez Holdings Corporation owned by the López family. The network is headquartered at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City,with additional offices and production facilities in 25 major cities including Baguio,Naga,Bacolod,Iloilo,Cebu,Davao,and Bulacan,where ABS-CBN's production and post-production facility in Horizon IT Park is located. ABS-CBN is colloquially referred to as the Kapamilya Network;its brand was originally introduced in 1999 and was officially introduced in 2003 during the celebration of its 50th anniversary,and was used until it was forced by the National Telecommunications Commission to cease and desist from free-to-air broadcasting due to the lack of Congressional Franchise. On May 5,2020,when the network was renamed Kapamilya Forever in support for the network's franchise renewal on May 13,2020. ABS-CBN is the largest media company in the Philippines and oldest television broadcaster in Southeast Asia.
Michael Tan Defensor is a Filipino politician who most recently served as the Party-list Representative for Anakalusugan from 2019 to 2022. He is also the CEO of Pax Libera Mining,Inc.
MediaQuest Holdings,Inc. is a Philippine media company based in Mandaluyong. It is involved in radio and television broadcasting,as well as direct-to-home satellite services and print media. Though an affiliate of telecommunications company PLDT,MediaQuest is owned by the former's Beneficial Trust Fund,a retirement pension plan funded through its Philippine Depository Receipts. PLDT does not directly own any media property as the current 1987 Constitution states that media companies should be 100% owned by Filipinos and the company's major shareholders include foreign entities such as First Pacific and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone.
Sky Cable Corporation,doing business as Sky,is a Filipino telecommunications company based in Diliman,Quezon City. A subsidiary of the media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation,the company offers broadband,cable and satellite television services under the Sky Cable and Sky Direct brands. The company was founded on June 6,1990 by Benpres Holdings Corporation as Central CATV,Inc.
TV5 Network,Inc.,commonly known as TV5,is a Philippine media company based in Mandaluyong,with its alternate studios located in Novaliches,Quezon City. It is primarily involved in radio and television broadcasting,with subsidiaries and affiliates dealing in various media related businesses. TV5 is owned by MediaQuest Holdings,an investee company of Philippine telecommunications giant PLDT,through its Beneficial Trust Fund,and headed by business tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan.
In 2003,South Korean dramas began broadcasting in the Philippines. Successful Story of a Bright Girl was the first Korean drama aired in Philippine television. For the past two decades,GMA Network has aired a significant number of Filipino-dubbed Korean dramas broadcast in the Philippines.
Protests against Former President Rodrigo Duterte escalated on November 18,2016,following Duterte's support of the burial of the late president Ferdinand Marcos. These series of protests are mostly conducted by progressive groups and other opposing figures mainly due to the ongoing war on drugs,the declaration of martial law in Mindanao,and employment issues such as contractual terms being applied by companies and inflation which occurred due to the passage of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law. Other causes of the protests include the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country,the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020,and the shutdown and franchise denial of ABS-CBN.
SMNI News Channel known on-air as SMNI News,is a Philippine far-right religious free-to-air news and public service television network based in Makati City. It is owned and operated by Swara Sug Media Corporation,the parent company of Sonshine Media Network International,a broadcasting arm of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) led by Filipino televangelist and religious leader,Apollo Quiboloy.
The following is a timeline of protests against Rodrigo Duterte,the 16th President of the Philippines,and his policies. Issues were addressed in the protests including the war on drugs,employment issues,anti-terror law,and the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The renewal of the congressional franchise of the Philippine media network ABS-CBN to continue broadcasting was a dispute between the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and the media conglomerate arising on the terms and conditions of the franchise renewal agreement. Amid the controversy,the Congress of the Philippines,country's legislature,was unable to renew the franchise before its expiration date. The congressional franchise expired on May 4,2020,as the Philippines was dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon. The next day,exercising constitutional powers,the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) then issued a cease-and-desist order demanding ABS-CBN to cease all of its free TV and radio broadcasting immediately. ABS-CBN complied with the government order and shut down all of its radio stations and free television channels later that day. On June 30,2020,the NTC released two alias cease-and-desist orders against ABS-CBN TV Plus and Sky Direct.
The 2022 Philippine Senate election was the 34th election of members to the Senate of the Philippines for a six-year term. It was held on May 9,2022.
"Bawal Lumabas (The Classroom Song)" or simply "Bawal Lumabas" (transl. You can't go out) is a single by Filipina actress and recording artist Kim Chiu. The chorus of the song came from her statement during the live chat event "Laban Kapamilya" as she tried compare ABS-CBN's shutdown to classroom rules. Her comparison went confusing and incoherent instead.
This is a list of candidates in the 2022 Philippine Senate election.
Joseph Stephen Paduano,also known by his nom de guerre Carapali Lualhati,is a Filipino politician who previously served as the House Minority Leader from 2020 to 2022. He has been the party-list representative for Abang Lingkod since 2014.
Community pantries in the Philippines are food banks established by Filipinos during the country's COVID-19 community quarantine.
Henry Sevilla Oaminal Sr. is a Filipino politician,lawyer,and businessman serving as the governor of Misamis Occidental since 2022. He was the Representative of Misamis Occidental's 2nd district from 2013 to 2022 and was a House Deputy Speaker from 2019 to 2022.
The 2022 presidential campaign of Bongbong Marcos began on October 6,2021,when he filed his candidacy for the 2022 Philippine presidential election under the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas. Bongbong Marcos,a former senator of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016,is the son of former president Ferdinand Marcos.
Alagaan Natin Ating Kalusugan,also known as the Anakalusugan Party List is a health advocacy group with representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It aims to represent the Philippines' health sector.
The UniTeam Alliance is an electoral alliance in the Philippines formed to support the candidacies of Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte in the 2022 presidential and vice-presidential elections and their allies in the 2022 Philippine general election. The alliance was formalized on November 29,2021.
The Social Amelioration and Genuine Intervention on Poverty (SAGIP),also known as the SAGIP Partylist,is a political organization with party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines.
