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Majority of Filipinos support license renewal for embattled ABS-CBN - poll

Published 07/12/2020, 07:32 PM
Updated 07/12/2020, 07:40 PM
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MANILA, July 12 (Reuters) - Three out of four Filipinos
wanted Philippine lawmakers to renew
a 25-year license for the country's top broadcaster, a survey by
a private pollster showed late on Saturday, a day after
Congress rejected ABS-CBN Corp's bid to have it renewed.
Critics saw the rejection as part of a political vendetta by
President Rodrigo Duterte's allies in Congress after the media
conglomerate angered him for its failure to air some of his paid
2016 election campaign commercials. The network has apologised.
A legislative committee overwhelmingly agreed with a working
group's assessment that ABS-CBN ABS.PS , which employs 11,000
people and has an audience of tens of millions of Filipinos, was
"undeserving of the grant of legislative franchise".
In a July 3-6 nationwide mobile phone survey, private
pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) found that 75% of adult
Filipinos had agreed that "Congress should renew the franchise
so that ABS-CBN can broadcast its programs again".
Of those surveyed, 10% were undecided while 13% disagreed,
SWS said in a statement.
The survey also found 56% agreed that the non-renewal of
ABS-CBN's franchise was "a major blow to press freedom", SWS
said.
The government "lost a media partner in information
dissemination", Duterte's spokesman Harry Roque said in a
statement on Sunday when asked for comment on the survey.
However, he reiterated that the granting of the broadcasting
franchise remained the exclusive prerogative of Congress.


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