News & Issues

Here’s a quick guide to the rules on political advertisements for radio and television stations for the May 10, 2010 elections based on Resolution No. 8758 of the Commission on Elections. The resolution implements the Fair Election Act. A copy of the resolution can be downloaded here.

The rules on political advertisements cover the campaign [...]

“I came to the Philippines in 1938 and have never regretted one moment of the time. I have been in media in the Philippines for a lifetime – from 1938 until the present. And I feel that media and the Filipino people have given more to me than I have given to them and they [...]

The KBP deeply mourns the demise of Press Secretary Cerge Remonde, one-time KBP Board Chairman. Remonde died last January 19, 2010 due to cardiac arrest. He was 51.
To many in the KBP, Remonde’s death was a personal loss. He was personally in touch with many members of the association even after he left it to [...]

KBP president Herman Z. Basbaño was appointed as a member of an independent Commission created by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo through Administrative Order No. 275 to investigate the “existence of private armed groups with a view to dismantling them permanently.”
Basbaño represents the media in the Commission whose other members include Bishop Juan de Dios [...]

About 70 station managers representing 36 KBP Local Chapters from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao are expected to attend this year’s KBP National Chapter Leaders Conference. This is the 13th year that the KBP’s Local Chapter leaders’ conference will be held since the late Press Secretary Cerge Remonde initiated it in 1997 when he was [...]

The members of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines) or KBP have elected its officers for 2010. They are:
Ruperto S. Nicdao, Jr. – Chairman, Board of Trustees
Butch S. Canoy - Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees
Herman Z. Basbaño - President and Trustee
Atom L. Henares - Executive Vice-President and Trustee
March S. Ventosa - Vice-President for Television and Trustee
Manny [...]

Radio and television stations belonging to the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines) or KBP expressed their mourning for the 57 victims of the Maguindanao massacre, among whom were 30 media men, by observing one minute of silence on the air last November 28 and December 9, 2009. [...]

A. OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS

1. KBP Lifetime Achievement Award

Fr. James B. Reuter

Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines (CBCP)

Posthumous Awardees

Mr. Q. Rebueno Hodreal
Mr. Bob Stewart

United Broadcasting Network

BROADCAST OLYMPICS. The KBP and the Campus Media Network, a student organization, signed a memorandum of agreement last January 21, 2009 for the holding of the Philippines’ first Broadcast Olympics, a competition among 49 schools and universities in Metro Manila that offer Communication Arts or related courses. The Broadcast Olympics, scheduled in September, will feature [...]

Filipino broadcasters and composers made their mark in history last January 21, 2009 when the KBP and the Filipino Composers Development Cooperative (FILCOMDEC) signed a memorandum of agreement that will provide and impetus to the creation and wider promotion of new Filipino music. Joey Ayala, chairman of FILCOMDEC and Butch S. Canoy, chairman of the [...]