The Philippines is one of the countries where the argument over press freedom in Asia is at its sharpest. It has a lively, competitive media tradition with strong English-language broadcasting; it is at the same time counted among the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, and the number of reporters killed there appears regularly in international reports.
The defining event came in 2020: Congress declined to renew the broadcast franchise of ABS-CBN, the country's largest network, and the network was forced off free-to-air television. The decision provoked international argument about the relationship between media and political power; the network continued to publish via cable and digital platforms. The ABS-CBN channels listed below are a product of that situation.
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Filipino journalist Maria Ressa in 2021 carried the country's press freedom struggle onto the international agenda.
Broadcasting in the Philippines is conducted in both Filipino and English, and the English-language output makes it one of the media environments in Southeast Asia most open to an international audience.
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