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According to the Rules of the Senate, [1] the committee handles all matters relating to: Public information, mass communication and broadcast services; Implementation of the provisions of the Constitution regarding ownership and management of mass media and the advertising industry; Development and promotion of information technology
ABS-CBN Corporation [b] is a Filipino media company based in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is the largest entertainment television and film production, program syndication provider , film distributor and media conglomerate in the Philippines .
Communication towers in Zamboanga City. Mass media in the Philippines consists of several types of media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, cinema, and websites.. In 2004, the Philippines had 225 television stations, 369 AM radio broadcast stations, 583 FM radio broadcast stations, 10 internet radio stations, 5 shortwave stations and 7 million newspapers in circulation.
On February 1, 1975, during the martial law era, due to the constitutional limitation prohibiting the ownership of media by non-Filipinos or corporations not 100% Filipino owned, IBC was sold to Roberto Benedicto, who also owned Kanlaon Broadcasting System (KBS) and the corporate name of IBC was changed to Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation.
Inquirer Holdings Incorporated (also known as the Inquirer Group of Companies) is a mass media conglomerate based in Makati, Philippines with the Philippine Daily Inquirer as its flagship brand. The company is majority-owned by Pinnacle Printers Corporation, the holding investment arm of the Rufino-Prieto matriarch. [1]
Irene Khan, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion, spent almost two weeks in the Philippines to assess the state of free speech and media rights.
Many of these media watchdogs [51] have issued statements placing the ABS-CBN broadcast stoppage in the context of systemic attacks against press freedom in the Philippines. [51] [52] Media groups and people's organizations denounced the shutdown order for being a loss of democracy, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press.
The Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC), doing business as the MBC Media Group, [1] is a multimedia company in the Philippines. It is currently owned by the FJE Group of Companies of Fred J. Elizalde, which also operates hotels and Pasay-based amusement park, Star City .