Zachary Deneal Madriñan

MANILA, Philippines – The TV5 worker unions have filed a complaint before the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in a bid to stop the network’s retrenchment program, which will affect some 700 employees. In a complaint filed before the DOLE’s National Conciliation and Mediation Board on October 5, the ABC-5 Employees Union claimed the network committed “unfair labor practices.” This is the 4th complaint filed against TV5 management in less than 2 years, they said. “The issues consist of mass termination of employment, lockout, Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) violation on retrenchment pay, bargaining in bad faith/refusal to negotiate a new CBA, among others,” said the groups. The management notified some 700 employees last October 1 that their employment will be terminated after November 15. The notice further stated that all workers are no longer required to report for work thereafter. The retrenchment, according to the management, is part of efforts to cut the network’s l...

MANILA, Philippines - Nagpapasaklolo sa De­partment of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ang daan-daang empleyado ng TV5 na masisibak upang mapigilan ang pag­tanggal sa kanila sa trabaho sa Nobyembre 15, 2018 bunsod ng pagsasapribado matapos na kunin ni Manuel V. Pangilinan ng TV5 ang 34 na porsiyentong sapi sa Kapatid network. Sa ginanap na Balitaan sa Tinapayan, hiniling ni Enrico Latina Jr., presidente ng ABC 5 Employees Unions at secretary general ng National Alliance of Broadcasters Union o NABU, na magpalabas ng status quo order ang DOLE National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) upang maharang ang re­trenchment sa 700 ka­wani ng TV5. Aniya, hindi dapat payagan ng DOLE ang management na ipatupad ang retrenchment hanggang walang nabubuong agreement. “Dapat staus quo muna lahat wala munang tatanggalin hanggang wa­lang agreement, tutal may mga willing namang umalis,” sabi ni Latina kasabay ang pahayag na ang CBA ng TV5 ay ginawa na ring model ng ibang TV network. Iginiit ni...

Akbayan Party expressed its solidarity and strong support for the workers unions of TV5, the ABC 5 Employees’ Unions (RPN EU/ Rank-and-file Union), today, as the unions led labor groups on a march to Mendiola to protest their impending retrenchment. Labeling the 700 workers “public servants” for having worked for TV5 in its operations as a public broadcasting agency, Akbayan Representative Walden Bello joined his voice with that of workers to demand that management suspend the retrenchment of workers and that it be made accountable for violations. “Akbayan is one with the TV5 unions in their fight. We will not allow TV5 management to abuse workers who provided the backbone of their operations, workers who served in the interest of the Filipino people,” Akbayan Representative Walden Bello said. According to Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello, management’s decision to retrench workers was done “in utter bad faith and blatant disregard to the welfare of workers,” especially after it signed a memor...

MANILA, Philippines - Sen. JV Ejercito and Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano raised concerns yesterday over the failure of the government to fully compensate some employees of the defunct ABC-5 television (now TV5). Cayetano and Ejercito questioned the officials of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) under Secretary Martin Andanar, who was defending their P1.312-billion budget for next year before the Senate. Speaking through finance committee chairman Sen. Risa Hontiveros, TV5 executives explained that there were 713 TV5 employees were served notices of retrenchment through the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Oct. 1. “It is basically a retrenchment due to the continued financial losses incurred,” Hontiveros explained. According to Hontiveros, PTV-4, RPN-9 and IBC-13 are not making money compared to another government television station. Hontiveros, however, explained that out of the 713 TV5 employees, about half have accepted termination benefits. “They were i...

It was revealed Monday, during the plenary deliberation on the budget of the Presidential Communications Operations Office that the government was unable to pay in full the separation benefits of the 713 retrenched employees of Associated Broadcasting Company (TV5). “Not all the benefits, admittedly, were paid to the extent that they should be, simply because there were not enough cash to pay the claims,” Sen. Risa Hontiveros, who is defending the budget on behalf of PCOO replied. He said TV5 has P300 million to P500 million accumulated losses. It also incurred a capital deficiency of more than P4 billion. PCOO head Martin Andanar was beside Drilon during the deliberation. TV5 is under the supervision of the MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., even though the private has only a 100 percent share in the network. Cignal TV, Inc. owns 34 percent, while 32 percent belongs to MVP Group of Companies and the rest of the shares belong to other stockholders Sen. Hontiveros said one of the principal bene...

TV5’s acting president Chot Reyes announced that the TV station "is laying off some 700 employees, as it continues to suffer financial losses." The report quoted Chot Reyes, who explained, "For the past 4 years, we are shelling out ₱7 million a month for our operating expense... Unfortunately,  walang  revenue  po na pumapasok  (there’s no incoming revenue) because we are not producing any more shows, except  Aksyon Evening Edition  and  Aksyon Final Edition ." The report noted that TV5 is "a Major television channel, which is now partly owned by MediaQuest Holdings/Cignal TV, Inc. and MVP Group of Companies ." The report also revealed that "the ABC-5 employees’ union is mulling the possibility of filing a case before the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) over the mass lay-offs."

TV5 Network, Inc. (TV5) (formerly Associated Broadcasting Company) will soon pull the plug on one of the country’s TV5's sports and channel, “ESPN5,” which first aired in 2017, and will lay off 700 of its employees. Secretary Martin Andanar of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) told a briefing Tuesday at the Palace that the Duterte administration had no more say in the operations of the privatized network, including the retrenchment of 700 TV5 employees. Andanar said the government could not stop the retrenchment since its “participation is limited” to the two TV5 board members representing the Kapatid network Ray C. Espinosa and Noel Lorenzana, former president of TV5. TV5 is no longer a sports and news channel. The Kapatid network owned by MediaQuest Holdings, Inc.’s equity is only 100 percent while 70 percent, or two-thirds is already owned by private corporations and MVP Group of Companies, he said. TV5 management, now in the hands of Cignal TV, Inc., Medi...

MANILA, Philippines – Financial losses of TV network Associated Broadcasting Company (now TV5 Network, Inc.) (TV5) will result in the retrenchment of 700 employees and uncertainties over its TV5's sports programming "ESPN5" one of the country's pioneer sports and news channel programs. In press briefing on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar said his office will monitor the network's compliance to the Labor Code provisions in terminating the services of workers.  "The PCOO continues to supervise the operations and management of TV5 and, as we have declared in all of our appearances and statements before both House of Congress, government is committed to protect the rights of the employees of TV5", Andanar said.  The government, however, only has a minority 20.8% stake in following a previous court ruling, Andanar said. 'TV5 sports and news channel' and job losses  Some employees of TV5 ...

MANILA , Philippines – Associated Broadcasting Company (TV5) employees who were affected by the TV network’s retrenchment program here are asking the management for due compensation after some reportedly received unjust separation pay offers. He said one of them, seasoned radio announcer Egmidio “Emie” Bustillo, was informed he would get a separation pay of only P400,000, instead of P4 million — the amount he was supposed to get for over 24 years of service in the company. “They (affected employees) were promised due compensation by the network, but the offer was not enough based on their computation,” noted Tangcawan. Tangcawan said others who served fewer years would only be given P350,000 each. The MVP Group of Companies, however, now only owns a minor 20.8% stake in TV5 following a Supreme Court ruling and several capital raising activities that saw the entry of private groups in the company. The company is undertaking a retrenchment program to trim its financial losses. Presidenti...

MANILA, Philippines - TV5 Network, Inc. (TV5) is no longer a sports and news channel and any retrenchment of employees must comply with the Labor Code, Malacañang said yesterday. Secretary Martin Andanar of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) said TV5 was placed under his office’s supervision by virtue of Executive Order 4. “We continue to monitor the developments in TV5 to ensure that all the rights of the employees under the Labor Code are adequately protected,” he said. Andanar said TV5 has been incurring financial losses and had to let go of the employees. “All I know is that they were not able to attain profitable operations from the time that it was decided by the previous administration to allow the equity conversion of the Cignal TV Group to the extent of 34 percent,” he said.  “And, from that time, Cignal has been a block timer of TV5 and, if you would see the programming now, there are only two hours more or less of news and public information that is...

Published October 2, 2012 9:06pm Some 700 employees have been retrenched from Kapatid network TV5 following the company's continued financial losses, a Malacañang official said Tuesday. “We have been informed by TV5 management that they have issued letters or notices of retrenchment to some 700 employees of the network,” said Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) chief Martin Andanar at a press briefing. According to the Labor Code, the management has a 30-day period to implement such notice. But according to the present collective bargaining agreement between TV5 management and employees, the notice period is 45 days. “We continue to monitor the developments in TV5 to ensure that all the rights of the employees under the Labor Code are adequately protected,” Coloma said. Associated Broadcasting Company (TV5) is under the supervision of the MVP Group of Companies and MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., but is mostly owned by private individuals and corporations. This supervis...

Ito ang himpilang DZXL 558kHz sa AM band at may lakas na 50,000 watts transmitter output, masy license no. BSD-0039-2005 na may bisa hanggang ika-31 ng Disyembre, 2008. Ang aming mga studio ay nasa 4th Flr., Guadalupe Commercial Complex, EDSA Makati City. Ang aming transmitter ay nasa Brgy Paco, Obando, Bulacan, Republika ng Pilipinas. Ang aming pangkat na teknikal ay binubuo ng mga sumusunod na Electronics and Communications Engineers at First-Class Radio Telephone Operators. Sila ang mga sumusunod: Engr. Rex Garcia, ECE No. 23815 First-class Radio Telephone Operators Vicente L. Pagaran Jr.  Crisanto L. Borja  Raymundo Q. Aningat  Ernesto B. Barrientos  Michael D. Ordiz  Frederick B. Villamor  Febwin E. Villaceran  Soriano A. Abecia Jr.  Gerald E. Cabrillos  at Billy Jay F. De Leon  (Sign-On) ang himpilang DZXL 558 kHz RMN Manila, ay sumahimpapawid ngayon at ito'y ang tagapagbabalita ay nagbabati sa inyo ng isang magandang umaga sa iyon...

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Ito ang himpilang DZXL 558 kHz RMN Manila. Isang commercial AM radio station na may 40,000 watts transmitting power at may pahintulot sa ilalim ng station permit number BSD-0355-2024 (REN) 1094 na pinaka loob ng National Telecommunications Commission na may bisa hanggang December 31, 2027. Ang DZXL 558 studio ay nasa Atlanta Centre, Annapolis Street, Greenhills San Juan, Metro Manila at ang transmitter ay matatagpuan sa Brgy. Panghulo, Obando, Bulacan. Republika ng Pilipinas. Ang RMN DZXL 558 Engineering ay pinamunuan ni Engr. Rodrigo V. Carandang: Professional Electronics Engr. No. 005 Ang RMN DZXL 558 studio at transmitter ay nasa pangangasiwa at pangangalangang teknikal ng mga sumusunod na Electronics Engineers, Electronics Technicans at First Class Radio and Telephone Operators na pawang lisensyado ng Professional Regulation Commission at ng National Telecommunications Commission. Engr. Hernando C. Manoguid: Professional Electronics Engr. No. 0423 Engr. Marjohn B. Layugan: Electron...

Ito ang himpliang DZXL 558 RMN Manila, na may lakas ng 40,000 watts at may NTC permit number BSD-0358-2012 na may bisa hanggang December 31, 2014. Ang aming studio ay nasa 4th Floor, Guadalupe Commercial Complex, EDSA Makati City. Ang aming transmitter ay matatagpuan sa Brgy. Taliptip, Bulakan, Bulacan.  Ang RMN DZXL 558 ay nasa pangangasiwa at pangangalanga teknikal ng mga susunod na Electronics and Communications Enginners at NTC License Radio and Telephone Operators. Engr. Eugene N. Delos Angeles  Engr. Jun Abogado Engr. Rodrigo Carandang  Vicente L. Pagaran Jr.  Crisanto L. Borja  Raymundo Q. Aningat  Ernesto B. Barrientos  Frederick B. Villamor  Febwin E. Villaceran  Tomas Domingo ar Richard Ramirez  (Sign-On) Ang himpilang DZXL 558 RMN Manila, ay sumasahimpapawid ngayon. Magandang umaga sa iyong lahat (Sign-Off) Ang himpilang DZXL 558 RMN Manila, ay winawakasang pansamantala ang aming pagsasahimpapawid. Magandang umaga sa iyong lah...

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  Dalawang Holy Week programming magsasanib-pwersa ng JesCom Lenten Specials at The Passion Of The Christ sa pagbabalik ng TV5. JesCom Foundation at The Passion of the Christ sa pagbabalik nito sa TV5 (ang dating Associated Broadcasting Company o ABC-5). MANILA, Philippines – Isang source na nakausap ng Cabinet Files ang nagsabing malaki ang posibilidad na ibalik sa dating pangalan na TV5 ang Word of God Network dahil sa mga nakaambang pagbabago. Ayon pa sa source, dalawang Holy Week special programming ng TV5 tulad ng JesCom Lenten Specials at The Passion of Christ ng malalaking kompanya ang magsasanib-pwersa ng Jesuit Communications Foundation o JesCom Lenten Specials at The Passion of the Christ sa pagbabalik ng TV5. Malalaman ang katotohanan tungkol sa magiging kapalaran ng Word of God Network dahil sa pagtatapos ng final episode o ang huling linggo ng longest-running religious program na Word of God Network sa darating na , Oktubre 10, 2024. Noong Huwebes, Oktubre 3, 2024, lum...

Word of God Network Shutting Down After 10 Years on Air? Word of God Network is rumored to be shutting down WORD OF GOD NETWORK – The only predominantly longest-running Religious program on free-to-air television in the Philippines, might bid farewell by the end of January 2025. MANILA, Philippines – The news surfaced on January 24, 2025, suggesting that the religious production company's operations could cease by the month's end due to financial losses. Originally, the religious agreement between TV5 Network, Inc. (formerly ABC Development Corporation) and Christ Commission Fellowship (CCF) was set to expire at the end of 2025, but the company appears unable to sustain it. The other-religion might temporary return to Jesuit Communications religious shows on TV5. However, concerns among Christ Commission Fellowship (CCF) personnel have risen, with some fearing job losses. A memo instructing a general assembly on January 22, 2025, was reportedly issued, but the agenda remains un...