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Associated Communications & Wireless Services - United Broadcasting Networks vs. National Telecommunications Commission

ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATIONS & WIRELESS SERVICES - UNITED BROADCASTING NETWORKS, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, respondent.

G.R. No. 144109 | 2003-02-17

D E C I S I O N

PUNO, J.:

For many years now, there has been a "pervading confusion in the state of affairs of the broadcast industry brought about by conflicting laws, decrees, executive orders and other pronouncements promulgated during the Martial Law regime."[1] The question that has taken a long life is whether the operation of a radio or television station requires a congressional franchise. The Court shall now lay to rest the issue.

This is a petition for review on certiorari of the Court of Appeals' January 31, 2000 decision and February 21, 2000 resolution affirming the January 13, 1999 decision of the National...