Malacañang on Friday insisted that granting ABS-CBN Corp. provisional authority to operate while Congress debates on renewing its franchise “cannot be legal.”

Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo was reacting to the petition filed by laywer Lorenzo Gadon asking the Supreme Court to stop the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) from issuing a provisional permit to ABS-CBN.

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