THE Committee on Legislative Franchises of the House of Representatives sent a letter-advice dated Feb. 26, 2020 to Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) “to grant ABS-CBN Corp. a provisional authority to operate effective May 4, 2020 until such time that the House of Representatives/Congress has made a decision on its application.” It was signed by the committee Chairman Franz Alvarez and concurred in by House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano.