ABS-CBN was a Philippine commercial broadcast network that served as the flagship property of the ABS-CBN Corporation,a company under the Lopez Holdings Corporation. The network was headquartered at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City,that had 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 was 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. ABS-CBN is the largest media company in the Philippines and is the oldest television broadcaster in Southeast Asia. The network is metonymically called as "Ignacia" due to the location of its headquarters ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center along Mother Ignacia Street in Quezon City.
Ramon Bautista Bong Revilla Jr. and commonly known as Bong Revilla,is a Filipino actor,director,producer,television presenter and politician serving as a Senator since 2019,and previously from 2004 to 2016.
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.
Alan Peter Schramm Cayetano is a Filipino lawyer and diplomat serving as a Senator since 2022 and previously from 2007 to 2017. He was the Senate Minority Leader from 2010 to 2013,and later Senate Majority Leader from 2013 to 2016. He also served as the Representative of Taguig–Pateros from 1998 to 2007 and from 2019 to 2022 and was the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2019 until his resignation in 2020. He also served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 in the cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte,after unsuccessfully running for vice president in the 2016 elections as Duterte's running mate.
Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI),also known by its legal name Swara Sug Media Corporation (SSMC),is a Filipino broadcast media arm of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) led by the Filipino televangelist Apollo Quiboloy. Based in Davao City and Makati,it operates a network of radio and television broadcasting stations.
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.
Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan or simply Makabayan is a coalition of twelve party-lists in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It was founded on April 16,2009. The founding assembly was held at UP Theatre,Diliman,Quezon City.
TV5 Network Inc.,commonly known as TV5,is a Philippine media company based in Mandaluyong,Metro Manila,Philippines. It is primarily involved in radio and television broadcasting and encompasses a range of subsidiaries and affiliates engaged in various media-related businesses. TV5 is owned by MediaQuest Holdings,an investee company of Philippine telecommunications giant PLDT through its Beneficial Trust Fund. It is 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 more than 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. 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 shutdown of ABS-CBN broadcasting arose from the lack of renewal of Philippine media network ABS-CBN's congressional broadcast franchise. The disputes between the administrations of Presidents Benigno Aquino III and Rodrigo Duterte and the media conglomerate arose over the terms and conditions of the franchise renewal agreement. Amid the controversy,the Congress of the Philippines,the country's legislature,was unable to renew the franchise before its expiration date. The congressional franchise expired on May 4,2020,while 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) issued a cease-and-desist order demanding ABS-CBN cease all of its free TV and radio broadcasting operations 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 livestream event "Laban Kapamilya" as she tried to compare ABS-CBN's shutdown to classroom rules. Her comparison became confusing and incoherent instead.
This is a list of candidates in the 2022 Philippine Senate election.
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.
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.
UniTeam was 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,with Senator Imee Marcos coining the name UniTeam.
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.
