Even without the pandemic, the year 2020 was destined to be a rough one for ABS-CBN Network. Towards the end of 2019, its executives, employees and celebrities already knew they were going into a daunting year what with their free-to-air TV franchise up — and hotly contested — for renewal in Congress. Compounded by the global health crisis that is Covid-19, it almost difficult to believe that they had gotten through the shutdown, the frenzied hearings and finally the loss of their franchise and bittersweet goodbyes of nationwide radio and TV broadcasts.

Hopefully, those who had lost their jobs in the process are now settled in new employment, or at the very least prospects for 2021, just as a good number celebrities have gone on to pursue their careers in other networks and with other management groups.