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LOOK BACK: ABS-CBN execs defend company in franchise bid

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 09 09:28 PM

Last year, ABS-CBN executives and lawyers attended congressional hearings to defend the company from various allegations and to appeal to lawmakers to grant it a new franchise. Read more »

Gabby Lopez—in the words of those closest to him

RHIA D. GRANA
Updated as of Sep 25 07:45 AM

If you ask his colleagues and friends, Gabby, who resigned today as Chairman Emeritus and Director of ABS-CBN Corp., was a natural leader and a visionary. "His back story is straight out of an ABS-CBN teleserye or a Star Cinema movie," Charo Santos-Concio once wrote of him.   Read more »

ABS-CBN's statement on the resignation of chairman emeritus Eugenio “Gabby” Lopez III

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 24 11:58 AM

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Alaala ni Gina Lopez nananatiling buhay 1 taon matapos ang pagpanaw, ayon sa mga kaanak

Abner Mercado, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 21 11:10 PM

MAYNILA - Naniniwala ang pamilya ni dating ABS-CBN Foundation Gina Lopez na naging makabuluhan at buhay ang kaniyang alaala sa mga iniwang programa para sa kapwa. Read more »

VERA Files Fact Check: Gabby Lopez still HAS shares in ABS-CBN Corp.

VERA Files
Posted at Jul 20 07:01 PM

A July 15 article by website Showbiz News Today inaccurately claimed ABS-CBN chairman emeritus Eugenio “Gabby” Lopez III has long pulled out all of his “multi-million” shares in “ABS-CBN Corporation”—supposedly in anticipation of Congress’ denial of the network’s bid for a fresh 25-year franchise. This is wrong and misleading. Read more »

ABS-CBN franchise hearings to resume on June 29: House committee chair

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 22 10:52 PM

Discussions for the new franchise bills of ABS-CBN at the House of Representatives will resume on June 29 following a "mutual decision" by lawmakers and the broadcast network to postpone this week's proceedings, a House committee chair said Monday. Read more »

How Lopez family struggled to regain ABS-CBN under Cory

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 17 01:35 PM

ABS-CBN’s quest to return on the air with a new operating franchise has placed the Philippines’ largest broadcast network under the relentless scrutiny of congressmen. Read more »

Congressman questions return of ABS-CBN to Lopezes after martial law seizure

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 15 07:20 PM

Cavite Congressman Elpidio Barzaga said he wanted to know if the return of ABS-CBN to the Lopezes followed “proper process.” Read more »

ABS-CBN's Gabby Lopez qualified to own, manage PH media company: Enrile

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 14 04:09 PM

ABS-CBN chairman emeritus Eugenio "Gabby" Lopez is qualified to own and managed a media company, former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said Sunday. Read more »

ABS-CBN's Philippine Depositary Receipts different from Rappler’s, legal counsel says

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 09 12:56 AM

MANILA (UPDATE) - ABS-CBN Holdings' Philippine Depositary Receipts or PDRs are different from those of news website Rappler's, a legal counsel of the network said on Monday during a joint House committee hearing on ABS-CBN's broadcast franchise.  Read more »

Citizenship ni Gabby Lopez muling tinalakay sa House franchise hearing

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 08 07:40 PM

"Alam nyo po I'm already 68 years old. My record over the last 35 is in the public records... Time and again I have shown that my actions always favor the Filipinos," ani ABS-CBN chairman emeritus Eugenio "Gabby" Lopez III.  Read more »

Gabby Lopez voted in 2016 US polls as dual citizen: Lagman

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 08 07:00 PM

Congressmen on Monday questioned former ABS-CBN chairman Eugenio "Gabby" Lopez III's allegiance and citizenship, taking issue with his voting record both in the Philippines and in the United States and possession of 2 passports. Read more »

Gabby Lopez 'inevitably qualified' to own, manage ABS-CBN: lawmaker

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 09 09:04 AM

ABS-CBN chairman emeritus Eugenio "Gabby" Lopez III is "inevitably qualified" to own and manage a mass media company since there is no distinction between Filipinos and dual citizens under Philippine laws, a lawmaker said Monday. Read more »

ABS-CBN chair emeritus Gabby Lopez asked to recite PH 'patriotic oath' in franchise hearing

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 09 03:32 PM

Eugenio "Gabby" Lopez III was asked to recite the Philippine "Patriotic Oath" as congressmen continued to pounce Monday on his dual citizenship, alleging that it raised a conflict of interest when he headed shuttered media network ABS-CBN. Read more »

SEC agrees, dual citizens are '100 percent Filipino'

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 08 07:23 PM

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday, it shared the view of the Justice Department that dual citizens are also 100 percent Filipino, its commissioner said.  Read more »

ABS-CBN's Gabby Lopez: I am a Filipino citizen ‘in thought, word, deed’

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 08 03:07 PM

ABS-CBN Corp. chairman emeritus Eugenio "Gabby" Lopez III on Monday said he is a Filipino "in thought, word and deed" as lawmakers continued scrutinizing his citizenship during a congressional hearing on the network's proposed fresh franchise.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 3, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 04 12:01 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Marcoleta sought to allow dual citizens to run for public office without renouncing foreign citizenship

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 04 12:54 AM

MANILA (UPDATE) - A lawmaker who questioned ABS-CBN chairman emeritus Eugenio "Gabby" Lopez III's citizenship had previously sought to allow dual citizens to run for public office without renouncing foreign citizenship. Read more »

ABS-CBN Chairman Emeritus Gabby Lopez, humarap sa franchise hearing sa Kongreso

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 03 08:38 PM

Isa ang citizenship ni Lopez sa mga kinukuwestiyon sa bagong prangkisa ng ABS-CBN. Read more »

Gabby Lopez to Congress: ‘I am first and foremost a Filipino. I will live, I will die in the Philippines’

ANCX
Updated as of Jun 04 10:31 AM

“I have been committed to the people of this country,” the ABS-CBN Corp. Chairman Emeritus told Congress today on the issue of his citizenship. By RHIA GRANA Read more »