{"id":20365,"date":"2020-07-10T18:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/10\/philippine-lawmakers-vote-shutdown-top-broadcaster-abs-cbn-rodrigo-duterte"},"modified":"2020-07-10T18:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:05:23","slug":"philippine-lawmakers-vote-for-shutdown-of-top-broadcaster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20365","title":{"rendered":"Philippine lawmakers vote for shutdown of top broadcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABS-CBN denied licence after repeatedly clashing with President Rodrigo Duterte<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in the Philippines have voted against the renewal of a 25-year franchise for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/05\/philippines-main-channel-abs-cbn-forced-off-air-amid-coronavirus-lockdown\">the nation\u2019s biggest broadcaster, ABS-CBN<\/a>, ensuring a media conglomerate that has clashed with the country\u2019s firebrand president stays off the air indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>A legislative committee overwhelmingly supported a house working group\u2019s assessment that ABS-CBN was \u201cundeserving of the grant of legislative franchise\u201d, a decision likely to anger activists who say media freedom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jun\/01\/media-groups-condemn-rodrigo-duterte-comments-journalists-philippines\">has come under sustained attack<\/a> during the rule of President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/10\/philippine-lawmakers-vote-shutdown-top-broadcaster-abs-cbn-rodrigo-duterte\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABS-CBN denied licence after repeatedly clashing with President Rodrigo DuterteLawmakers in the Philippines have voted against the renewal of a 25-year franchise for the nation\u2019s biggest broadcaster, ABS-CBN, ensuring a media conglomerate that has clas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,458,238,55,54,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-media","category-philippines","category-press-freedom","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20368,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365\/revisions\/20368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}