ABS-CBN President Carlo Katigbak has issued an apology to President Rodrgo Duterte for failing to air Php7 million worth of political ads during the 2016 national elections.
Katigbak made the apology during the Senate hearing on issues hounding the television giant’s franchise.
“Our policy on all our ads is first-come, first-served. Many of these spots were ordered on May 3, and May 7 was the last day of the campaign period. There had been many previous telecast orders that came in ahead,”
Katigbak said.
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Duterte has repeatedly threatened not to sign the bill renewing ABS-CBN franchise.
“We acknowledge our shortcoming in our failure to release that refund in a timely manner. We are sorry if we offended the President. That was not the intention of the network. We felt that we were just abiding by regulations that surround the airing of political ads,” furthered Katigbak.
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The ABS-CBN president added that they could no longer accomodate the Duterte’s ads and decided to refund the money.
