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DURING the ouster of the Marcos regime in February 1986, what used to be ABS-CBN's Broadcast Center on Bohol Avenue (now Sgt. Esguerra Street) was now occupied by the Banahaw Broadcasting Corp. (BBC-2) and the Maharlika Broadcasting System (MBS-4), the government-owned station. The Benedictos used what they earned from Broadcast Center to create a bigger complex called Broadcast City in Balara in 1979 and relocated its Radio Philippines Network (RPN-9) and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corp. (IBC-13) channels. According to the research made by Raul Rodrigo in the book "Kapitan: Geny Lopez and the Making of ABS-CBN" — based on interviews with those who were there — the Broadcast Center's equipment was brought to the new location by the Benedicto group, along with important archival material. The only thing that was left at the Broadcast Center, according to ABS-CBN veterans, was literally the transmitter.
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