January 16, 2008
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday countered the motion filed by rival network GMA-7 which sought a temporary restraining order (TRO) from a Quezon City court to stop the airing of news related to the issue of alleged tampering in the ratings data released by AGB-Nielsen Media Research Philippines.
ABS-CBN maintained during its face off with its rival network at the Quezon City Regional Trial Court that by seeking a TRO, GMA-7 is violating press freedom and keeping people from knowing the truth.
“There are serious implications on the freedom of the press and the freedom of expression… It’s a little disheartening that the motion to stop the airing of news comes from itself from a media organization as well. It’s a gag order, you can not report. But what about the truth? Should not the truth come out?” said ABS-CBN lawyer Regis Puno.
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January 16, 2008
An informant of TV giant ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. has alleged that an official from ABS-CBN’s rival GMA Network and an AGB Nielsen insider in Iloilo were involved in an alleged ratings breach in Bacolod and Iloilo.
Mark Dumago, 23, who is working as a field coordinator under a contract with a radio station in Bacolod, was presented to members of the print media on Tuesday as the ABS-CBN’s informant who blew the whistle on the TV ratings breach.
“Para malaman ng lahat na totoo yung sinasabi namin na hi-nire talaga kami ng GMA para magtrabaho dun tungkol sa AGB Nielsen (So that people will know the truth that we were hired by GMA to work on that thing with AGB),” he said in Filipino.
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January 16, 2008
According to GMA, ABS-CBN depicted the network as behind the manipulation of television ratings in the cities of Bacolod City, Cebu, Davao, and Iloilo.
“Unless restrained, defendants will repeat its defamatory statements and cast aspersions against the honor and integrity of GMA before the honorable court could hear the latter’s complaint thereby disregarding the judicial process and adjudicatory function of the honorable court,” GMA Network said in its motion.
GMA claimed ABS-CBN aired defamatory statements on January 5, 6, 7, and 12 on its various television programs.
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January 14, 2008
“It’s more of the same. There’s nothing new in what they said. All are dubious and inconsistent with known facts.”
This is how GMA NETWORK describes the almost identical testimonies of ABS-CBN informants from Bacolod and now, Cebu, Davao and Iloilo that were shown lately in various ABS CBN programs.
Mark Dumago from Bacolod, first revealed his face in an interview on TV Patrol last Friday, January 11. Then conveniently, right after the Dumago interview, on various weekend programs of ABS-CBN, other informants from Cebu, Davao and Iloilo were also interviewed, but with their faces blurred.
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January 12, 2008
A witness who told ABS-CBN about an alleged tampering of panel homes in Bacolod has finally decided to reveal his identity on camera and stood by his previous statements implicating another TV network behind a well-planned, orchestrated effort to manipulate ratings data gathered by AGB-Nielsen Media Research Philippines.
Mark Dumago first approached ABS-CBN in December to report the existence of the scam. During interviews, he gave his statement on camera but with his face hidden in shadow.
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January 8, 2008
GMA Network profit jumps 20% to P2.28B in 11 months
GMA Network Broadcast company posted a net income of P2.28 billion in the first 11 months of 2007, 20 percent higher than its earnings in the same period in 2006, it said in a statement.
In November 2007 alone, revenues again breached the P1-bilion mark while net income rose six percent to P220 million. Year-to-date revenues amounted to 10.83 billion, up eight percent from a year earlier.
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January 3, 2008
New witnesses came forward and told ABS-CBN News that television ratings done by AGB-Nielsen Media Research Philippines in Bacolod City were indeed manipulated, as told by an informant who first revealed the information last month.
A TV Patrol World report Thursday said the new witnesses, identified only by the pseudonyms “Rico” and “Jonel” affirmed the statement made by “Gary” who said in December that metered ratings conducted by AGB-Nielsen in Bacolod were tainted.
Rico and Jonel told ABS-CBN correspondent Julius Babao that in 2006, an official of a television network approached them for their services to survey viewers’ preference with regard to TV programs.
They said that after two months, the same official ordered them to do something different. They said that the network official ordered them to find out which homes in Bacolod were being monitored by AGB-Nielsen.
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January 3, 2008
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday said a P15 million libel suit filed by GMA Network against the Kapamilya Station is meant to divert attention away from the issue of TV ratings manipulation.
“We are disappointed but not surprised by GMA-7’s reactions to the discovery of TV ratings manipulation. It appears that they want to prevent the media from mentioning GMA 7 in connection with cheating in the ratings,” ABS-CBN spokesman Bong Osorio said in a statement.
“Let’s remember that the issue here is about having a clean TV ratings process, the reason we filed a civil case against AGB-Nielsen Media Research. Filing defamation charges against ABS-CBN diverts attention from the real issue. We are confident that the truth will come out,” he added.
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January 3, 2008
GMA Network on Thursday sued rival network ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. for allegedly accusing GMA of tampering metered households of research firm AGB Nielsen.
A report on the GMA-7 Web site said GMA demanded P10 million from ABS-CBN for moral damages, P2.5 million for exemplary damages, P1.5 million for attorney’s fees and P1 million for litigation expenses.
“There was series of on-the-air fabrication of statements imputing GMA 7 as behind the alleged rigging, manipulation of TV ratings in Bacolod City,” the Web site said, quoting GMA lawyer Gener Asuncion.
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December 20, 2007
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. on Wednesday said it is standing by a radio interview that linked television network GMA-7 to the alleged tampering of TV ratings meters in Bacolod City as told by an official of AGB Nielsen Media Research Philippines.
“We stand by our report in DZMM. Maya Reforma, in her interview with DZMM’s Junry Hidalgo this [Wednesday] morning, identified GMA-7 as behind certain activities that resulted in exposing the affected panel homes,” said ABS-CBN spokesman Bong Osorio.
“Please note that the civil case ABS-CBN filed last Friday, December 14 was against AGB-Nielsen Media Research Philippines and not against any other party,” he added.
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December 20, 2007
GMA-7 on Tuesday dismissed talk it was the television network that allegedly rigged the ratings administered by survey firm AGB Nielsen Media Research.
“The alleged informant of ABS-CBN must be referring to a station other than GMA Network in the case it filed against AGB Nielsen,” it said in a statement.
The statement from ABS-CBN’s informant did not jive with information that GMA was the network alleged as the one that cheated in TV meters installed in some homes in Bacolod City to measure viewership.
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December 20, 2007
Inamin na ng AGB Nielsen Media Research na natunton ang ilan sa mga bahay o households na nilagyan nila ng metering panel na ginagamit sa pagsukat ng TV ratings.
Pinangalanan din ng AGB ang istasyon na tinutukoy na siyang umanong tumunton sa mga households.
Sa press conference ng ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation noong Biyernes, ipinakilala ang isang testigo na may mga alegasyong may anomalya umano sa TV ratings sa Bacolod.
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November 9, 2007
Despite the continuous barage of GMA 7’s paid hacks claiming that ABS-CBN is now #2 in NUTAM (ewan kung saan nila nakuha ang detalye nila), the latest NUTAM results show otherwise. In the past, kapag tense ang GMA 7, for whatever reason, they start to dilute and saturate tabloids and newspapers with company-furnished memo or praise releases about their show or un-religious and not-worthy-of-a-Christian-station negative publicities about their rival’s show, talent or what-have-you. Case in point: the negative publicity was the scandal-kuno of Angel Locsin sa kasagsagan ng kanyang paglipat sa ABS-CBN or that well-publicized negative email memo sent by someone in GMA 7 management to tabloid writers against Kris Aquino.
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November 2, 2007
Nasa kasagsagan nga-yon ng pagti-taping ang much-awaited na tambalang Angel Locsin at Piolo Pascual para sa kanilang teleseryeng Lobo na mapapanood na very very soon sa ABS-CBN!
Mula sa Star Television, ngayon pa lang ay ipinagmamalaki na ang proyektong ito dahil sa dekalikad na producer ng MMK, at mga di-mali-limutang teleseryes tulad ng Maging Sino Ka Man, Ysabella, Sa Sandaling Kailangan Mo Ako, Ma. Flordeluna, Pangako Sa’yo at marami pang iba!
Sabi nga ng ilan, this is the most ambitious project of ABS-CBN. And naka-handa naman sina Angel and Piolo.
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November 2, 2007
DAHIL sa lakas ng naging pagtangkilik ng mga batang manonood sa superseryeng Super Inggo, inihahandog ng ABS-CBN ang pinakahihintay na pagpapatuloy ng programa, ang Super Inggo: Ang Bagong Bangis na magsismula na sa November 3.
Sa Super Inggo 1.5: Ang Bagong Bangis, magpa-patuloy ang paglalakbay ng ating paboritong batang superhero. Manaig kaya ang kapangyarihan ng kanyang busilak na kalooban laban sa kanyang nagmumultong nakaraan?
Maging sapat kaya ang pag-ibig para maprotektahan niya ang mga mahal sa buhay laban kay Prince of Darkness atsa kampon nito?
“Siguradong masisiyahan ang mga fans ng superserye sa Super Inggo 1.5,” ani Raymund Dizon, production manager ng programa. “Magiging kapana-panabik ang mga pakikipagsapalaran ng mga tauhan sa bawat isa. Ang bangis talaga kaya sigurado ako mag-i-enjoy ang mga manonood. Balentungan na uli,” dagdag pa niya.
Makakasama pa rin ni Makisig sina Jairus Aquino (Jomar), Angelu de Leon (Pacita), Nova Villa (Lola Juaning), Kathryn Bernardo (Maya), Meryll Soriano (Super Inday), Kaye Abad (Tikbalang), Zanjoe Marudo (Super Islaw) at Jacob Dionisio (Prince of Darkness) sa sequel ng Super Inggo.
Mapapanood naman ang mga baong tauhang gagampanan nina Bobby Andrews (Binatang X), Rustom Padilla (Super Inday), John Prats (Protec-thor), Erich Gonzales (Maeboo), Jaymee Joaquin (Bianca Bankera), Dionne Monsanto of Pinoy Big Brother Season 2 (Salonna), Marvin Raymundo (Nenok), Joshua Dionisio (Mighty Ken) at Andrew Muhlach (Amazing Teg). Sila kaya’y kaaway o kakampi?
Muling nagbabalik ang mahika ni Super Inggo para bihagin ang inyong mga puso tuwing Sabado. Sa direksyon ni Manong Gilbert Perez, manood ng Super Inggo 1.5: Ang Bagong Bangis, magsisimula ngayong November 3 sa ABS-CBN.
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