THE House of Representatives suspended deliberations on the bill granting a 5-month franchise that woula allow media giant ABS-CBN Corp to resume operations after it was shut down on May 5 and would instead proceed with hearings on the full 25-year franchise at the committee level.

Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, principal author of the bill, announced the decision of the House leadership to forgo the provisional franchise on Tuesday, after its passage on second reading had been recalled.