REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5789 - AN
ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN,
ENTITLED "AN ACT GRANTING JORGE D. BAYONA A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT,
MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A RADIO BROADCASTING STATION IN THE MUNICIPALITY
OF LEGASPI, PROVINCE OF ALBAY"
Section 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Twenty-nine
hundred thirty-seven is amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the
Constitution as well as of Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred
forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio
stations and radio communication in the Philippine Islands, and for
other purposes"; Act Numbered Three thousand nine hundred ninety-seven,
known as the Radio Broadcasting Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One
hundred forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their
amendments; and other applicable laws, not inconsistent with this Act,
Jorge D. Bayona is hereby granted a franchise to construct, maintain
and operate radio broadcasting and television stations in the Bicol
region and Southern Tagalog, as well as fixed point-to-point and land
based and land and sea-mobile radio stations for the reception and
transmission of radio communications within the Philippines, at such
places as the said Jorge D. Bayona may select, subject to the approval
of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications."
Sec. 2. Section two of the same Act is amended to
read as follows:
"Sec. 2. This franchise shall continue for a period
of twenty-five years from the date the said stations shall be put in
operation, and is granted upon the express condition that the same
shall be void unless the construction of at least one television
station be begun two years from the date of the approval of this Act
and be completed within four years from said date."
Sec. 3. Section four of the same Act is amended to
read as follows:
"Sec. 4. The grantee's radio broadcasting and
television stations shall not be put in actual operation until the
Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the
grantee the frequencies and wave lengths and channels to be used this
franchise and issued to the grantee a license for such use.
"The grantee, his successors or assigns, is authorized to operate his
fixed point-to-point and land based and land and sea-mobile radio
stations in the medium frequency, high frequency, and very high
frequency that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Public Works
and Communications."
Sec. 4. Section four-A, a new section, is hereby
inserted between Section four and Section five of the same Act, and
shall read as follows:
"Sec. 4-a. In the event of any competing individual,
partnership or corporation receiving from the Congress a similar
franchise in which there shall be any term or terms more favorable than
those herein granted or tending to place the herein grantee at any
disadvantage, then such term or terms shall ipso facto become a part of
the terms hereof and shall operate equally in favor of the grantee as
in the case of said competing individual partnership or
corporation."
Sec. 5. Section twelve of the same Act is amended
to read as follows:
"Sec. 12. The grantee shall not require any previous
censorship of any speech, play, act or scene or other matter to be
broadcast and/or telecast from his stations; but if any such speech,
play, act or scene or other matter should constitute a violation of the
law or infringement of a private right, the grantee shall be free from
liability, civil or criminal, for such speech, play, act or scene or
other matter: Provided, That the grantee, during any broadcast and/or
telecast, shall cut off from the air the speech, play, act or scene or
other matter being broadcast and/or telecast, if the tendency thereof
is to propose and/or incite treason, rebellion or sedition, or the
language used therein or the theme thereof is indecent or immoral, and
willful failure to do so shall constitute a valid cause for the
cancellation of this franchise."
Sec. 6. The title of the same Act is amended to
read as follows:
"An Act granting Jorge D. Bayona a franchise to construct, maintain and
operate radio broadcasting and television stations in the Bicol region
and Southern Tagalog, as well as fixed point-to-point and land based
and land and sea-mobile radio stations for the reception and
transmission of radio communications within the Philippines."
Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969.
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