Some five weeks after the first hearing, Rep. Lito Atienza called the inquiry into ABSCBN’s bid for a new 25-year franchise “among the longest.”

May 5

ABS-CBN signs off after the airing of “TV Patrol” to comply with the cease and desist order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) following the expiration of its congressional franchise on May 4

May 26

ABS-CBN president Carlo L. Katigbak (CLK) gives his opening statement at the first hearing led by the Joint Committee on Legislative Franchises and Good Government and Public Accountability

June 1

CLK responds to various issues, including the interpretation of the 50-year franchise limit and ABS-CBN’s issuance of Philippine Deposit Receipts (PDRs), at the second hearing

June 3

ABS-CBN chairman emeritus Eugenio Lopez III (EL3), at the third hearing, asserts that he is a natural-born Filipino as both his parents are Filipino

June 8

“When ABS-CBN was taken off the air, over three million Filipinos no longer receive the signal that allowed them to be informed about the issues that beset the country… Those signals we put in those areas will not generate the kind of income that will allow you as a businessman to have an adequate return,” EL3 says at the fourth panel hearing, which again zeroes in on his citizenship

June 11

At the fifth hearing, CLK explains that the sale of the ABS-CBN TVplus boxes is “in compliance with the directive of NTC to migrate our broadcast to digital” by 2023, as stated in the framework for the digital terrestrial television broadcasting migration plan released in 2017

Additionally, ABS-CBN legal counsel Atty. Cynthia del Castillo clarifies that ABS-CBN Corporation and ABS-CBN Holdings are “two different companies and it is ABS-CBN Holdings that is the one issuing the PDRs”; moreover, holders of ABS-CBN Holdings PDRs are only passive investors

June 15 

“Two administrations [Pres. Cory Aquino and Pres. Fidel Ramos administrations] gave imprimatur for the return of the possession of ABS-CBN of its real estate, properties and broadcast equipment. And even the Supreme Court, one validating the agreement to arbitrate and another one for the factual circumstances, lends constitutionality to the return,” Atty. Arecio Rendor Jr. points out at the sixth hearing focusing on the closure of ABS-CBN and its eventual return to the Lopezes after the fall of the Marcos dictatorship

June 17

Former Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile testifies at the seventh hearing, saying that while ABS-CBN’s facilities were seized by the Marcos government in 1972, the titles remained with the company’s owners

June 29

The block time agreement with AMCARA Broadcasting Network which allowed ABSCBN to continue broadcasting via ABS-CBN TVplus on the Channel 43 frequency is examined at the eighth hearing. CLK says the cease and desist order did not include Channel 43

June 30 

Labor issues are tackled at the ninth hearing, with network executives answering questions regarding program-based contracts and other practices unique to the industry

The network complies with an alias cease and desist order from NTC to cease and desist from operating digital TV transmission in Metro Manila through Channel 43

July 1

At the 10th hearing, ABS-CBN responds to allegations that it uses ABS-CBN Foundation Inc. and Big Dipper Digital Content and Design Inc. as tax shields

July 2

Tax issues are again brought up at the 11th panel hearing

July 6

Allegations of biased reporting and questions about the morality of its content are leveled against the network at the 12th hearing

July 9 

A final hearing is conducted for the summation of the earlier hearings

July 10

Members of the House of Representatives vote 70-11 to deny the network’s application for a new franchise