Basketball enthusiasts will immediately react to my column title as impossible and cannot physically be

done simultaneously. The problem is, today’s article has nothing to do with basketball or any contact
sport. But I will try to show how the National Telecommunications Commission has achieved the
impossible by issuing NTC Memorandum order no. 004-06-2022 addressed to “All authorized radio and
television broadcast station/entities, on the subject: Block time agreements (Dated 23 June 2022).”

In the interest of the service and pursuant to the mandate of the National Telecommunications
Commission (NTC) to supervise and regulate, among others, radio and television broadcast stations and
to establish and prescribe rules, regulations and standards specifications related to the same, as
provided under Executive Order (EO) No.546, series of 1979, and other applicable laws, all
holders/grantees of Certificate of Public Convenience (CPC) and/or Provisional Authorities (PA) to install,
operate and maintain radio and/or television broadcast stations are hereby directed to:

• Submit block time agreements for the Commission’s APPROVAL prior to the consummation of the
implementation of such agreements. Block time agreements shall not be more than 50 percent of the
daily airtime broadcast of the radio/television station.

• Authorized radio and television broadcast entities, its management and board of directors shall be
solidary liable with the block timer for any violation committed by the block timer arising from the
content or programs under the block time agreements.