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Saturday, August 15, 2020

1993 in Philippine television: Specials

January 1–2: 1992–93 Bowl Coalition Games on ABC 5
January 1:

1992 John Hancock Bowl on ABC 5
1992 Outback Gator Bowl on ABC 5

January 2:

1993 Blockbuster Bowl on ABC 5
1993 Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic on ABC 5
1993 IBM OS/2 Fiesta Bowl on ABC 5
1993 Federal Express Orange Bowl on ABC 5
1993 USF&G Sugar Bowl on ABC 5

January 18–31: 1993 Australian Open on GMA
January 25:

American Music Awards of 1993 on ABC 5
WWF Royal Rumble ′93 on GMA

February 1: Super Bowl XXVII on GMA and World TV 21
February 14–November 14: 1993 NASCAR Busch Series on GMA
February 15–November 15: 1993 NASCAR Winston Cup Series on GMA
February 21: ABC-5 @ 1: The ABC-5 1st Anniversary Special on ABC 5
February 22: 1993 NBA All-Star Game on GMA
February 25: 35th Annual Grammy Awards on GMA
February 28: 1993 PBA Opening Ceremonies and Games on PTV 4
March 14–November 7: 1993 Formula One season on IBC 13
March 19–April 6: 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on New Vision 9
April 6: 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game on New Vision 9
March 21–October 4: 1993 CART PPG IndyCar World Series on World TV 21
March 21: 1993 Australian FAI IndyCar Grand Prix on World TV 21
May 31: 1993 Indianapolis 500 on World TV 21
March 21: Binibining Pilipinas 1993 on GMA
March 30: 65th Academy Awards on New Vision 9
April 5: WWF WrestleMania IX on GMA
April 9–12: 1993 Masters Tournament on New Vision 9
April 21: Second Philippine Dragon Boat Festival on New Vision 9
April 30–June 6: 1993 NBA Playoffs on GMA
May 24–June 5: 1993 NBA Eastern Conference Finals on GMA
May 25–June 6: 1993 NBA Western Conference Finals on GMA
May 7–18: 1993 PBA All-Filipino Cup Finals on PTV 4
May 13: 1993 European Cup Winners' Cup Final on New Vision 9
May 22: Miss Universe 1993 on GMA
May 24–June 6: 1993 French Open on GMA
May 27: 1993 UEFA Champions League Final on New Vision 9
June 6: 1993 PBA All-Star Weekend on PTV 4
June 10–21: 1993 NBA Finals on GMA
June 12–20: 1993 Southeast Asian Games on PTV 4
June 14: WWF King of the Ring ′93 on GMA
June 18–21: 1993 U.S. Open Golf Championship on GMA
June 19–20: 1993 24 Hours of Le Mans on World TV 21
June 21–July 4: 1993 Wimbledon Championships on GMA
July 15–18: The 122nd Open Championship on GMA
July 26: State of the Nation Address 1993 on PTV 4
August 13–16: 1993 PGA Championship on GMA
August 14–23: The 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Stuttgart 1993 on GMA
August 21−22: Family Appointment with El Shaddai: 9th Anniversary Overnight Celebration on IBC 13
August 27–September 7: 1993 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals on PTV 4
August 29−September 6: 1993 Tournament of the Americas on GMA/New Vision 9/World TV 21
August 31: WWF SummerSlam ′93 on GMA
August 31–September 13: 1993 U.S. Tennis Open on New Vision 9
September 18: UAAP Season 56 Men's Basketball: Ateneo Blue Eagles vs. De La Salle Green Archers on New Vision 9
September 20: 45th Primetime Emmy Awards on GMA
October 17–24: 1993 World Series on PTV 4
October 23: ABS-CBN @ 40: The ABS-CBN 40 Years TV Special on ABS-CBN
October 31: Binibining Pilipinas 1994 on GMA
November 13: UFC 1: The Beginning on World TV 21
November 17:

Big on ABC-5
City Jazz: The 6th Time Around on New Vision 9

November 25: WWF Survivor Series ′93 on GMA
November 26: A Grand Salute: 40 Years of Philippine Television and ABS-CBN on ABS-CBN
November 28: Miss World 1993 on New Vision 9
November 29: 81st Grey Cup on PTV 4
December 5: 1993 SEC Championship Game on GMA
December 5–14: 1993 PBA Governors' Cup Finals on PTV 4
December 8: Ang Pinakamagarang Parol: ABC Telemovie Special on ABC 5
December 25: 1993 John Hancock Bowl on ABC 5
December 25-26: Family Appointment with El Shaddai: 10th Christmas Overnight Annual Family Reunion on IBC 13
December 28: WCW Starrcade '93: 10th Anniversary on ABC 5
December 31, 1993–January 1, 1994:

Miss Kita Kung Christmas... sa Westin on ABC 5
1994: New Year at GMA Special on GMA

1992 in Philippine television: Specials

January 2: Images of 1991: The GMA News and Public Affairs Year-end Special on GMA
January 13–26: 1992 Australian Open on GMA
January 20: WWF Royal Rumble ′92 on GMA
January 27: Super Bowl XXVI on GMA
February 8–17: 1991–92 Philippine Basketball League Philippine Cup Finals on PTV-4
February 8–23: 1992 Winter Olympics on PTV 4
February 9: 1992 PBA Opening Ceremonies and Games on PTV 4
February 10: 1992 NBA All-Star Game on GMA
February 16–November 9: 1992 NASCAR Busch Series on GMA
February 17–November 16: 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series on GMA
February 22: Binibining Pilipinas 1992 on GMA
February 26: 34th Annual Grammy Awards on GMA
March 1–November 8: 1992 Formula One season on IBC 13
March 20–April 7: 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on New Vision 9
April 7: 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game on New Vision 9
March 22–October 19: 1992 CART PPG IndyCar World Series on New Vision 9
March 22: 1992 Daikyo IndyCar Grand Prix on New Vision 9
May 25: 1992 Indianapolis 500 on New Vision 9
April 6: WWF WrestleMania VIII on GMA
April 10–13: 1992 Masters Tournament on New Vision 9
April 18–19: Family Appointment with El Shaddai: Easter Vigil Overnight Celebration on IBC 13
April 24–May 30: 1992 NBA Playoffs on GMA
May 20–30: 1992 NBA Eastern Conference Finals on GMA
May 17–29: 1992 NBA Western Conference Finals on GMA
April 26–May 5: 1992 PBA First Conference Finals on PTV 4
May 7: 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup Final on New Vision 9
May 8: Miss Universe 1992 on GMA
May 11–12: Philippine general election 1992

Halalan '92 on ABS-CBN
Decision '92 on GMA
The Vote '92 on ABC 5
Hatol ng Bayan '92 on PTV 4
Pollwatch '92 on New Vision 9
Botohan '92 on IBC 13

May 21: 1992 European Cup Final on New Vision 9
May 24: 1992 PBA All-Star Weekend on PTV 4
May 25–June 7: 1992 French Open on GMA
June 4–15: 1992 NBA Finals on GMA
July 6–11: 1992 Philippine Basketball League Maharlika Cup Finals on PTV-4
June 7: World Bowl '92 on GMA
June 11–27: 1992 UEFA European Football Championship on New Vision 9
June 19–22: 1992 U.S. Open Golf Championship on GMA
June 20–21: 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans on New Vision 9
June 22–July 5: 1992 Wimbledon Championships on GMA
June 28−July 6: 1992 Tournament of the Americas on GMA/New Vision 9/World TV 21
July 16–19: The 121st Open Championship on GMA
July 26–August 10: 1992 Barcelona Olympics on ABS-CBN
July 27: State of the Nation Address 1992 on PTV-4
August 14–17: 1992 PGA Championship on GMA
August 16–30: 1992 PBA All-Filipino Conference Finals on PTV 4
April 18–19: Family Appointment with El Shaddai: 8th Anniversary Overnight Celebration on IBC 13
August 31–September 12: 1992 U.S. Tennis Open on New Vision 9
September 1: WWF SummerSlam ′92 on GMA
September 5: UAAP Season 55 Men's Basketball: Ateneo Blue Eagles vs. De La Salle Green Archers on New Vision 9
October 10–14: UAAP Season 55 Men's Basketball Finals: FEU Tamaraws vs. Adamson Falcons on New Vision 9
October 18–25: 1992 World Series on PTV 4
October 24: 6th PMPC Star Awards for Television on IBC 13
November 26: WWF Survivor Series ′92 on GMA
November 30: 80th Grey Cup on PTV 4
December 6: 1992 SEC Championship Game on GMA
December 6–13: 1992 PBA Third Conference Finals on PTV 4
December 13: Miss World 1992 on New Vision 9
December 16–19: 1992 Philippine Basketball League Invitational Cup Finals on PTV-4
December 25: 1992 Southeast Asian Fencing Federation Championships and Nissan Challengers Philippines Tennis on PTV 4
December 26-27: Family Appointment with El Shaddai: Christmas Overnight Celebration on IBC 13
December 29: WCW Starrcade ′92: BattleBowl/The Lethal Lottery II on ABC 5
December 31, 1992–January 1, 1993: 1993: New Year at GMA Special on GMA

1991 in Philippine television: Specials

January 14–27: 1991 Australian Open on GMA
January 20: WWF Royal Rumble ′91 on GMA
January 28: Super Bowl XXV on GMA
February 11: 1991 NBA All-Star Game on GMA
February 17: 1991 PBA Opening Ceremonies and Games on PTV 4
February 17–October 28: 1991 NASCAR Busch Series on GMA
February 18–November 18: 1991 NASCAR Winston Cup Series on GMA
February 21: 33rd Annual Grammy Awards on GMA
March 3: Binibining Pilipinas 1991 on GMA
March 11–November 3: 1991 Formula One season on Islands TV 13
March 15–April 2: 1991 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on New Vision 9
April 2: 1991 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game on New Vision 9
March 17–October 21: 1991 CART PPG IndyCar World Series on New Vision 9
March 17: 1991 Gold Coast IndyCar Grand Prix on New Vision 9
May 27: 1991 Indianapolis 500 on New Vision 9
March 25: WWF WrestleMania VII on GMA
March 26: 63rd Academy Awards on New Vision 9
April 12–15: 1991 Masters Tournament on New Vision 9
April 20–27: 1991 Philippine Basketball League Maharlika Cup Finals on PTV 4
April 26–May 31: 1991 NBA Playoffs on GMA
May 20–28: 1991 NBA Eastern Conference Finals on GMA
May 19–31: 1991 NBA Western Conference Finals on GMA
May 5–19: 1991 PBA First Conference Finals on PTV 4
May 16: 1991 European Cup Winners' Cup Final on New Vision 9
May 18: Miss Universe 1991 on GMA
May 26–June 2: 1991 PBA All-Star Weekend on PTV 4
May 27–June 9: 1991 French Open on GMA
May 30: 1991 European Cup Final on New Vision 9
June 3–13: 1991 NBA Finals on GMA
June 10: World Bowl '91 on GMA
June 14–18: 1991 U.S. Open Golf Championship on GMA
June 15–22: Mount Pinatubo Eruption Live Coverage*
June 22–23: 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans on New Vision 9
June 24–July 7: 1991 Wimbledon Championships on GMA
July 17–24: 1991 Philippine Basketball League Challenge Cup Finals on PTV 4
July 18–21: The 120th Open Championship on GMA
July 22: State of the Nation Address 1991 on PTV 4
August 9–12: 1991 PGA Championship on GMA
August 22–September 1: 1991 PBA All-Filipino Conference Finals on PTV 4
August 23–September 1: The 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Tokyo 1991 on GMA
August 24: Regal Rejoicing at 18 on ABS-CBN
August 26: 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards on GMA
August 27: WWF SummerSlam ′91 on GMA
August 27–September 9: 1991 U.S. Tennis Open on New Vision 9
September 7: UAAP Season 54 Men's Basketball: Ateneo Blue Eagles vs. La Salle Green Archers on New Vision 9
October 20–28: 1991 World Series on PTV 4
October 26: 5th PMPC Star Awards for Television on Islands TV 13
November 24–December 3: 1991 Manila SEA Games on PTV 4
November 25: 79th Grey Cup on PTV 4
November 28: WWF Survivor Series ′91 on GMA
December 8–15: 1991 PBA Third Conference Finals on PTV 4
December 29: Miss World 1991 on New Vision 9
December 30: WCW Starrcade '91: Battlebowl, The Lethal Lottery on New Vision 9
December 31, 1991–January 1, 1992: 1992: New Year at GMA Special on GMA

1990 in Philippine television: Specials

Specials

January 15–28: 1990 Australian Open on GMA
January 22: WWF Royal Rumble ′90 on GMA
January 29: Super Bowl XXIV on GMA
February 4: Binibining Pilipinas 1990 in GMA
February 12: 1990 NBA All-Star Game on GMA
February 18: 1990 PBA Opening Ceremonies and Games on PTV 4
February 19–November 19: 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Series on GMA
February 22: 32nd Annual Grammy Awards on GMA
March 11–November 4: 1990 Formula One season on IBC 13
March 16–April 3: 1990 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on New Vision 9
April 3: 1990 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game on New Vision 9
April 2: WWF WrestleMania VI on GMA
April 6–9: 1990 Masters Tournament on New Vision 9
April 9–October 22:1990 CART PPG Indy Car World Series on New Vision 9
May 28: 1990 Indianapolis 500 on New Vision 9
April 16: Miss Universe 1990 on GMA
April 27–June 4: 1990 NBA Playoffs on GMA
May 21–June 4: 1990 NBA Eastern Conference Finals on GMA
May 22–June 1: 1990 NBA Western Conference Finals on GMA
May 3: 1990 European Cup Winners' Cup Final on New Vision 9
May 3–15: 1990 PBA First Conference Finals on PTV 4
May 12–22: 1990 Philippine Basketball League Maharlika Cup Finals on PTV 4
May 24: 1990 European Cup Final on New Vision 9
May 28–June 10: 1990 French Open on GMA
June 3: 1990 PBA All-Star Weekend on PTV 4
June 6–15: 1990 NBA Finals on GMA
June 9–July 9: 1990 FIFA World Cup on GMA
June 15–19: 1990 U.S. Open Golf Championship on GMA
June 25–July 8: 1990 Wimbledon Championships on GMA
July 7–11: 1990 Philippine Basketball League Challenge Cup Finals on PTV 4
July 14: Eat Bulaga!: Little Miss Philippines 1990 Grand Finals on ABS-CBN
July 16–22: Luzon Earthquake Live Coverage*
July 19–22: The 119th Open Championship on GMA
July 23: State of the Nation Address 1990 on PTV 4
August 9–21: 1990 FIBA World Championship on GMA
August 10–13: 1990 PGA Championship on GMA
August 21–September 4: 1990 PBA All-Filipino Conference Finals on PTV 4
August 28: WWF SummerSlam ′90 on GMA
August 28–September 10: 1990 U.S. Tennis Open on New Vision 9
September 22–October 7: 1990 Asian Games on IBC 13 (now Islands TV 13)
October 17–21: 1990 World Series on PTV 4
November 9: Miss World 1990 on New Vision 9
November 23: WWF Survivor Series ′90 on GMA
November 26: 78th Grey Cup on PTV 4
December 11–20: 1990 PBA Third Conference Finals on PTV 4
December 12–17: 1990 Philippine Basketball League Philippine Cup Finals on PTV 4
December 16: WCW Starrcade '90 on New Vision 9
December 31, 1990—January 1, 1991: 1991: New Year at GMA Special on GMA

Voter registration to resume in areas under relaxed quarantine starting September 1

Voter registration will resume in areas with relaxed quarantine levels starting September 1, the Commission on Elections said Saturday, with health and safety protocols put in place as the COVID-19 threat remains.

Those who want to register may download and print application forms from the Comelec website, but these must be signed and submitted in person at election offices, said Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez.

Applications for registration may be filed from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Comelec offices from Tuesdays to Saturdays starting next month, he said.

"It is strongly recommended that downloaded forms be filled out before going to the Comelec office for registration, but the forms should be signed only in front of the Election Officer, at the Comelec office," he said in a statement.

Minimum health standards such as limiting the number of people in Comelec offices, requiring the use of face shields and face masks, and physical distancing measures will also be implemented, Jimenez said.

Aside from the usual voting requirements, Jimenez said registrants should also fill up a self-declaration form indicating possible symptoms, contact, and travel history.

Those found to have symptoms will be barred from entry.

“Registrants will also be required to fill out a ‘Coronavirus Self-Declaration Form’ which discloses information relating to travel, contact with people with known COVID-19 infection, and symptoms being experienced,” Jimenez said.

An express lane will also be provided for senior citizens, persons with disabilities and pregnant women, Comelec said.

Comelec offices and facilties nationwide will also be disinfected daily, the poll body said.

Voters' registration offices in areas under the stricter enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and the modified ECQ will remain closed until quarantine classifications in such areas are downgraded to general community quarantine and modified GCQ, or if the quarantine is lifted altogether, the poll body said.

"In areas currently under ECQ and MECQ, voter registration will automatically resume once the quarantine status is either downgraded to GCQ, MGCQ, or if quarantine is lifted entirely. Voter registration in areas not currently under quarantine, or which are under MGCQ or GCQ, shall automatically be suspended upon upgrading their quarantine status to MECQ or ECQ," Comelec said.

The next national electios is in 2022.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/15/20/voter-registration-to-resume-in-areas-under-relaxed-quarantine-starting-september-1

Don’t Take Your Life For Granted

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. James 4:14

When Boris Yeltsin was weathering the stormy coup in Moscow which so altered the former USSR, his adrenaline was really flowing. As he mounted the barricade outside the walls of Parliament and raised his fist in the air, he allowed his five-year-old granddaughter to climb up and stand by his side. After all, history was being made and what a grand moment to share with this little girl, who would never forget what she had experienced.

Seeing the soldiers and tanks, the little girl turned to her then powerful grandfather who held the tide of history at bay, and asked, "Grandfather, will the soldiers shoot us in the head?"

At that question, said Yeltzin in a later interview with CNN, reality returned and he felt the fragility of life. Whether you are on the barricades, in the hospital, or preparing to face another quite routine day, life at its best is fragile and short. "What is your life?" asks one of the first New Testament books to be written, "You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes," says James, the half-brother of Jesus (James 4:14).

I thought of those words as I stood beside the bedside of a friend’s dad who was described as a very careful driver. He always wore seatbelts and never exceeded the speed limit, something which very few people can honestly boast of. Yet a car approaching from the opposite direction drifted off the highway and the driver over-corrected, hitting the other car head on.

As I stood there in the intensive care unit of a hospital watching the machines labor to keep him breathing and to keep oxygen flowing to his body, I couldn't help thinking, "What a strong, powerful man a few days ago, and now his weary body is fighting for breath and life."

"What is life?" men and women have been asking from the beginning of time. Moses, who had known both the classroom of Egypt and the vastness of a classroom under the stars as he took care of his father-in-law's sheep, said that life is like a tale that is told, or a story which a shepherd would tell around the campfire at the end of the day (Psalm 90:4).

The fact is that every individual is terminal--something which shouldn't bring remorse or depression. It's the way life is, but that doesn't mean that life is terminal. It goes on whether the body remains healthy or stops functioning entirely. But, of a certainty, it changes. Jesus said it as He stood before the tomb of a friend whose life had been cut short by sickness. "I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus Christ. "He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die" (John 11:25-26). Then Jesus asked a very important question of those who stood there--a question which you as well, need to face. "Do you believe this?" He asked Martha.

The word believe means far more than an intellectual assent to the theory that there is life after death. It means a commitment to something, whereby you take something by faith and commit your heart to it. It's just that simple and that complex as well.

Three thousand years ago, Moses talked about our years as being "three score years and ten," or 70 years, still about the length of the average life span today--70 years, give or take a few. But of one thing I am certain: eventually, we cross the threshold which separates us from eternity.

Life at its longest is short. The real enemy is not death. It is an empty life which brings us to the end with no assurance of life beyond the grave. Think about it.

Resource reading: Jonah 1:1-17

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/dont-take-your-life-for-granted/

Friday, August 14, 2020

Region V

5 Responses To Frustration

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. 2 Corinthians 2:14

Frustration is no stranger to the child of God. Believers live in a world of broken pieces, and buses which are late, and budgets which will not balance, just the same as the man who is an atheist. I contend, however, that the child of God should have some resources with which to fight frustration. Yes, the believer has powers to cope that the atheist does not have. Like what?

Let us go back to the source of much of our frustration--goals which are not reached and expectations which are not fulfilled. Thus frustration results. For the believer, his goals and objectives should rest upon the will of God, what he believes God wants him to accomplish, and much frustration can be eliminated by aligning our goals and objectives with the will of God. What should our response be, when what we want to accomplish does not happen?

Guideline #1: Reassess your goals. It may well be that you are trying to do something which God does not want you to do, and your frustration is the result of violating His plan for your life. Do not expect God to block everything you try to do that is wrong. Natural laws which are violated will result in natural consequences. Prayer won't eliminate an unwanted pregnancy the morning after, or guilt, or whatever. But sometimes our goals are wrong--consequently frustration comes. We are like the businessman who came to me quite annoyed that God was not answering his prayer. Yes, he was frustrated. He knew that something was wrong somewhere. The only problem was that his frustration was the result of asking for something God did not want him to have--a million dollars.

Guideline #2: Remove the source of your frustration if you can. Obviously, it is not possible every time. But say, for example: You have an old car that keeps breaking down, and you keep thinking, "This time we will have it fixed right." Eventually there is a breaking point, and it may be you instead of your car. The problem with this guideline is that it seldom works with people. You cannot trade in your brother-in-law for a new model, so there has to be another alternative.

Guideline #3: Realize God is sovereign no matter what happens. At some point we need God's grace to accept what we cannot change. If you are God's child, you must realize that He has the means of overriding your puny ambitions and giving you the grace to cope with frustration. If we could see life from God's perspective, how different things would be. Romans 8:28 is often quoted out of context, but it is important. God works all things after the counsel of His will.

Guideline #4: Bring your frustration to the Lord and lay it at His feet. Paul did this as he asked the Lord to remove that thorn in the flesh--not once, or twice, but three times, and three times he did not get what he asked for. He got something better. "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).

Guideline #5: Overcome your frustration by laying hold of God's power to break through the enemy's territory. There can be a triumph that breaks through frustration. Paul wrote about it in 2 Corinthians 2:14 as he said, "But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him..."

This is why Paul and Silas could sing in prison with their backs raw and bleeding from the beating they had received. It was why John could rejoice from prison and see the vision of heaven's glory. Now we see through a glass darkly. With spiritual vision we see beyond the frustration that whips so many. It is the ultimate solution.

Resource reading: Acts 16:6-10

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/5-responses-to-frustration/

Thursday, August 13, 2020

ABS-CBN On-Screen Bug (2020)

(1st On Screen Bug)

"Program Title" at the Upper-Left Corner:

Used for Local and Foreign Entertainment Programs, Cartoons and TV Specials.

"Digital Clock Screen" at the Downer-Left Corner:

Every Hour, Using the Timecheck On Screen Bug.

(2nd On Screen Bug)

"Now Showing: Movie Title" at the Upper-Left Corner:

Used for Local and Foreign Dubbed Movie Blocks.

Can You Trust Your Conscience?

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

When a psychotherapist talks about guilt, he is usually talking about something which the Bible describes as conscience. He's talking about the emotion which either condemns or exonerates you of your actions. But when the Bible talks about guilt, using the same term which psychotherapy uses, it is in relationship to your standing before God--not your feelings, which may reflect your culture and your understanding of right or wrong.

Shortly before his death, Pol Pot, the Cambodian butcher of several million people, admitted that he had made some "mistakes." However, he said, "My conscience is clear." Scores of other criminals from gangster Alger Hiss to Hitler himself justified what they were doing by alleging to have a clear conscience, one void of any offense.

Why does the Bible make such a clear distinction between feelings of guilt or conscience and actual guilt before God? Simply put, your conscience can't be trusted. For some who have a clear knowledge of right and wrong, it's a good measure of your conduct, but for those who have grown up without a clear understanding of right and wrong, of what God expects, forget it--your conscience shouldn't be trusted. It tells you that you are OK when you are in real trouble. This means that a person may stand guilty before God when his own conscience doesn't condemn him at all. And that's a dangerous situation to find yourself in. It's like having an instrument panel that tells you the tank of fuel is nearly half full, when in reality it's almost empty, or that you are flying at a given altitude when in reality you are about to crash into a mountain.

It’s the attitude in our society--that there is no right or wrong, nothing which is really moral or immoral apart from what you think--which has contributed to the death of conscience. How? Because the views of society--what it deems moral or immoral--is at juxtaposition with what God says and expects. If, however, there were no God and no ultimate accountability, your personal conscience would be an acceptable barometer or guide for behavior. That's a big "if," since God's health is quite good.

On the other hand, if God hasn't changed his mind about what is moral and what is immoral, what is right or wrong, then whether we like it or will admit it, we are responsible for our actions, and someday will be accountable for them because our conduct as well as our choices come down on the side of guilt.

There is a redeeming balance, though, to our guilt, and that is God's grace--his undeserved and unmerited favor that erases our guilt and lets us stand before God forgiven and cleansed. That's good news! And why doesn't modern psychotherapy acknowledge that guilt can be balanced by grace? This, of course, means that it would have to acknowledge that God does exist and that our actions which they label as poor choices or mistakes are really sin.

Would that admission be altogether bad? Ask any condemned prisoner if accepting a pardon from the governor or president is bad. Ask anyone who has been granted a reprieve from the ravages of cancer if it's bad to get a new grip on life. Ask the miner who has been rescued from certain death if seeing the blue sky and white cumulus clouds that fill the sky and smelling the fresh scent of the morning air are bad?

No, grace is good news. It is the best news that ever was announced to men and women who know they have fallen short of God's expectations but often don't know what to do about it. Thank God for grace that is greater than all our sin.

Resource reading: Romans 6:1-23

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/can-you-trust-your-conscience/

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

My Only Radio

MOR (My Only Radio For Life!) is a national brand of FM radio stations operated by media conglomerate, ABS-CBN Corporation. MOR stations primarily plays contemporary MOR and OPM music, as well as radio drama and talk content (news content via TV Patrol Regional is also available on selected stations). MOR started in 2001 as the FM brand of ABS-CBN Regional, and operates 15 stations in the Philippines.

History and background

MOR was launched on July 14, 2001 in Cagayan de Oro City. The network's brand name was coined by Malvern Esparcia (Bernie Bitokbitok), which, aside from its meaning as My Only Radio, is meant to be a shorter designation to the province of Misamis Oriental, where Cagayan de Oro is based. It saw a rebrand of ABS-CBN's provincial FM stations, particularly in some long-time ones which were formerly branded as the ProStar network and ABS-CBN Radio prior to the relaunch. Numerous format changes occurred among its stations with similar program titles applied across provincial areas on July 15, 2001. MOR wasn't launched in Manila since its inception until it made a major change in mid-2013, when the company finally relaunched long-time independent station DWRR-FM (101.9 MHz) as the network's flagship station and effectively made MOR a truly national brand.

In a press conference held at the ABS-CBN Compound on June 1, 2018, coinciding the Manila station's ratings leadership and its announcement of this year's Pinoy Music Awards set on July 21, the Manila Radio and Regional divisions have agreed to relaunch MOR as MOR Philippines. Under its relaunched brand, the network will connect Manila and its provincial stations with unified program brands and strong music choices; thus, the new tagline "One Vibe, One Sound." The MOR Philippines relaunch will be by phases which began on August 11.

On June 1, 2019, MOR stations in Manila, Cebu, and Baguio expanded its video streaming platform as exclusive channels to cable TV subscription service Sky Cable in their respective cities.

Network programming

Despite its unified branding, programming among stations remained to be handled separately between Manila and Regional stations. The network's Manila station is jointly managed by ABS-CBN's Manila Radio division, along with AM flagship station DZMM Radyo Patrol 630, and the Star Creatives group; MOR Regional's programming, meanwhile, is supplied under management of the company's Regional Network Group division.

MOR Philippines began its presence on August 11, 2018 with the launching of MOR Regional's weekend programs Dyis is It and MOR Presents, which began its Manila debut on the next day. Other adjustments are underway to unify MOR's branding across all its stations with plans to create more national programs for the network.

MOR Philippines also aired Pantawid ng Pag-ibig: At Home Together Concert on March 22, 2020. The concert was aimed to help the people who were in need because of the Enhanced Community Quarantine.

National brands

Dear MOR
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4 Ways To Learn From Failure

Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David. For I will harm you no more, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Indeed I have played the fool and erred exceedingly." 1 Samuel 26:21, NKJV

Charles Schultz, the creator of the comic strip "Peanuts" had a grasp of human nature such as do few people. Who can't identify with the series of cartoons where Lucy is trying to console Charlie Brown? She says, "Remember, Charlie Brown, you learn more from your defeats than you do from your victories." And Charlie Brown says, "That makes me the smartest man in the world!"

Strange, is it not, how some do learn from their mistakes, and others never seem to grasp the lessons of their failures? Some find themselves on the floor, knocked down by circumstances over which they had no control, and they crawl into a corner and whimper, complaining about the way they became victims, how unfair life was to them, and how they would have succeeded if only something had not happened.

Others find themselves knocked down, and while they are down learn how to rise to new heights, something which would never have happened if they had not suffered misfortune.

Take, for example, William Levine. His store was robbed four times in one month. Angry about the abuse, Levine bought a bullet proof vest for protection. Soon other merchants began asking, "Where did you get that? I want one too." Levine sensed that there was a greater demand for personal protection than for hamburger and pork chops, so he gave up his butcher shop and began a body armor business, which has been far more successful than his butcher shop ever was.

Here's the question? How do you bring order out of chaos, meaning out of confusion, and spiritual gain out of defeat? Simply put, why do some learn their lessons and other never gain from failure but seemed doomed to fail time after time?

Those who learn from failure have several things in common.

Quality #1: They accept responsibility for their failure. Excuses are not part of their vocabulary. Instead of blaming others, coming up with fabricated excuses, they say, "It was my fault!"

Quality #2: They analyze the causes of their failure and strive to correct the flaws. Henry Ford put no reverse gear in his first automobile. When others began to surpass his engineering, he changed things, and quickly.

Quality #3: They have an unflagging spirit of determination to succeed. Thomas Alva Edison tried over 10,000 experiments, hoping to produce what we now know as an electric light, by passing electrical current through some substance which would produce illumination. A friend said, "Why don't you quit! You're tried over 10,000 times and failed." He retorted that he had found 10,000 ways that would not work, and he would yet find one way that would work. He did: the incandescent bulb.

Quality #4: They learn dependence upon God for what they lack. None could better illustrate that truth than Chuck Colson, once a confidant to a US president, who became a convicted felon. He later wrote, "The real legacy of my life was my biggest failure--that I was an ex-convict. My greatest humiliation--being sent to prison--was the beginning of God's greatest use of my life; He chose the one experience in which I could not glory for His glory”

Want to turn your greatest failure into an ultimate triumph? Read the fine print about the failures of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob along with David and Samson in the Old Testament; about Peter, Ananias and Sapphira and a host of others. Some learned from their failure and others were doomed to repeat them. You can learn from the mistakes of others. God honors the man who acknowledges Him in the time of failure, and gives grace to overcome. You can learn that failures become the stepping-stones to reaching your goals.

Resource reading: Acts 5:1-11

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/4-ways-to-learn-from-failure/

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Discover Why We Need To Be Followers

Then he said to all, “Anyone who wants to follow me must put aside his own desires and conveniences and carry his cross with him every day and keep close to me!" Luke 9:23

What we need today is more leaders! Right? Wrong, says Joe Stowell! And who is this negative voice? He served for 18 years as president of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, one of our day's leading Christian colleges with more than a century of history.

Dr. Stowell says that he feels a bit awkward in contending that our greatest need is not for leaders because everyone sends their offspring to colleges and universities expecting them to emerge as tomorrow's leaders. Stowell is convinced that God designed us in such a way that our supreme need is to follow Jesus Christ.

In his book Following Christ he wrote, "That following is what we were originally designed for is almost self-evident in the fact that every one can follow but very few have either the talent or the opportunity to lead." (Following Christ, Zondervan, 1996, p. 36.)

Coining a word for what he believes we need, Stowell calls it followership, the habit of learning to follow implicitly Him who challenged the disciples, saying, "Anyone who wants to follow me must put aside his own desires and conveniences and carry his cross with him every day and keep close to me!" (Luke 9:23).

Long ago, scientists discovered that when a mother duck fails to teach her young to follow her in the first two days after the eggs are hatched, the duckling will follow a block of wood pulled by a string as a substitute for the mother who is not there. Furthermore, contends a medical doctor who cites the discovery, over a period of time there is emotional attachment to the block of wood. (S. I. McMillen, "How are we Imprinting," Christian Life, Feb. 1996, p. 30).

In dealing with the issue of what he calls followership, Joe Stowell meets head-on the greatest flaw of Christianity today. Scores and scores of men and women, fearful of losing control over their lives and destinies, name the name of Christ and attend church without making a commitment to follow Jesus Christ.

Making this personal, do you ever struggle with the issue of commitment to what Jesus asked, thinking that if you sign on the dotted line and follow Him, you will be thought of as a fanatic, you will be mocked as a person who is out of touch with the world, that you will be deprived of your independence?

Jesus Christ called us to a relationship wherein He is at the center of our very existence, and it is our hesitance to yield at this point that produces a dichotomy of faith and practice. We know better than we do, so we often make token commitments to what we think God wants, hoping that in the end the scales will weigh in our favor.

A generation ago Frank Sinatra crooned, "I Did It My Way," and he has had lots of company because we still prefer to do it our way. That's the way we are born, and many never go beyond that to understand that God's purpose and will is better than ours because He knows the end from the beginning.

A closing thought. Your concern as to where following Christ may take you is overcome when you realize that following is a day by day, step by step walk. When you follow Him, you will get to know Him, and when you really know Him--not the image you may have grown up with--you will love Him, and when you love Him, you will obey Him.

Joe Stowell is right. What we need today is not leaders but followers, and only then will we be fully committed to Jesus Christ.

Resource reading: Luke 9:57-62

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/discover-why-we-need-to-be-followers/

Sunday, August 9, 2020

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Saturday, August 8, 2020

Camarines Sur

Camarines Norte Legislative Districts

Bill reapportioning Bulacan to 6 legislative districts OK’d on second reading

The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a bill reapportioning the province of Bulacan from the current four, to six legislative districts.

House Bill 6867 exempts San Jose del Monte City in the proposed re-apportionment.

The city will remain a single congressional district as represented in the Lower House by Rep. Rida Robes, chairperson of the House Committee on Public Participation.

All five lawmakers representing the various areas of Bulacan signed the bill as co-authors.
They are Reps. Jose Antonio Sy-Alvarado; Gavini Pancho; Lorna Silverio; Henry Villarica and Robes.

Under the bill, which is expected to be approved on third and final reading within the month, the legislative districts of Bulacan will be as follows:

First District ( Population: 465,746) – Calumpit, Hagonoy, Paombong, Pulilan and Bulakan;
Second District (Population: 707,207) – Balagtas, Baliuag, Bocaue, Bustos, Guiguinto, Pandi and Plaridel
Third District (Population: 434,908) – Angat, Doña Remedios Trinidad, San Ildefonso, San Miguel and San Rafael
Fourth District (Population: 490,245) – Obando, Marilao and City of Meycauayan
Fifth District (Population: 367,802) – Norzagaray and Santa Maria

Bulacan solons said the proposed reapportionment of the province complies with the constitutional requirements for the creation of new legislative districts, including the population requirement of 250,000.

“The bill aims to address the lack of representation of the province of Bulacan in Congress given the population increase since the Constitution’s inception in 1987,” the lawmakers explained.

https://mb.com.ph/2020/08/07/bill-reapportioning-bulacan-to-6-legislative-districts-okd-on-second-reading/

Move From Ignorance Into Truth

If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. John 7:17

Ignorance is a wonderful thing! What you don't know doesn't worry you, though it probably should. You couldn't be out of money since you still have checks in your checkbook, right? The lump that you have on your neck can’t hurt you as long as you ignore it or can it? It's not only your bank account or your health which is an issue; it's your spiritual life as well. Strange, is it not, how we prefer to ignore issues rather than confront them.

I often think of the instruction manual for a small single-engine aircraft which said something like this: If you are flying at night and you lose power, try to restart the engine. If that fails, when you reach an altitude of 200 meters, turn on your landing lights. If you don't like what you see, then turn them off again.

The sad fact is that a lot of people have turned off their landing lights when it comes to very important things. Some do it in a high school or college classroom. Some do it simply because they don't like what the Bible says--too confining, too limiting, too--well, puritanical. They like what they are doing and don't want to change, so they just "turn out the lights."

When ignorance is demolished by truth, it can be alarming, perhaps devastating. Knowing that the lump on your neck is cancer may shake you up—but save your life. Of course, no one likes thinking of the surgeon's knife, or chemotherapy or radiation, yet losing your hair or your appetite is highly preferred to losing your life.

Going back to the issue of truth and God, how do you know what is truth or prejudice? How can you be sure? Do you take someone else's word for it or can you know for yourself? When Paul did a speaking tour of Greece, he came to a place identified today as Berea, and there he went into the synagogue and proclaimed Jesus Christ as the Son of God, who lived, died and rose again.

And the Bereans quickly accepted what Paul said, right? Not exactly. Dr. Luke says that they received the message with great eagerness but examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was truth.

They had settled the issue, however, as to what is truth. They were fully persuaded that the Scriptures were true and that God had revealed Himself through them. Question: Do you have that assurance? You may answer, "Yes! No problem," but chances are, you are not quite sure. If so, this is just for you.

Many intelligent individuals today have never gone much beyond the cover of this grand book we call the Bible. They turned the lights off a long time ago, and ceased to think for themselves, accepting the mindset of teachers or professors, our culture, and our society. How do I know the Bible is true? There are rational answers which dispel any doubt that you may have ever had including the abundance of manuscript evidence that says the writings of Scripture have been preserved over the years, the unintended but powerful testimony of archaeology, the element of the supernatural which includes amazing prophesies given hundreds of years before their historical fulfillment, to say nothing of the personal connection with God which comes by testing the promises of this book, the Bible.

Ignorance is not comforting and faith is not blind. Turning on the lights may require some thinking, some investigation, asking some hard questions about your personal life and being willing to accept the truth which God will reveal to you. But through His Son, God gave a promise. Jesus said, "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32).

Resource reading: John 8:31-47

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/move-from-ignorance-into-truth/

Friday, August 7, 2020

Who Decides What Is Right And What Is Wrong?

What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. Deuteronomy 6:6-7

The writer, C.S. Lewis, points out that you've got to know what a straight line is before you know what a crooked one is. But the “straight lines” of morality, of what is right and wrong, are fuzzy in the minds of a lot of people. Where do we get our idea of what is right and what is wrong and can something be “right for you, but wrong for me?”

If you turn to psychology and neuroscience research you will find an explanation like this: “Morality was selected by evolution in our human ancestors in order to promote cooperation and smooth social interactions.”[1] But when we look at our world, we see anything but cooperation and smooth social interactions taking place, according to some sort of evolutionary morality. What we see is more like what the prophet Jeremiah saw nearly 2600 years ago when he said, “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” (Jeremiah 17:9 NLT)

A religious person might say that a basic understanding of right and wrong comes from Jewish and Christian roots, which have been the foundation of many societies. But for the follower of Jesus Christ, in simple terms, it has been the Bible, the very Word of God, which provides an understanding of right and wrong. This book provides clarity on issues such why it is right for me to love my spouse, but wrong for me to love another’s. It is right for me to take the grain that is grown in my field; wrong for me to take what is grown in my neighbor's. It is right for me to discipline my children; wrong to discipline yours.

Some of these issues were defined in a set of moral guidelines in the Old Testament known as the Ten Commandments. Other guidelines for living came with the teaching of the prophets and then in Jesus' teaching. He said things such as, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," (Luke 6:31) instead of the rule of the street, which is: "Do unto others before they do the same to you!"

Today, however, we've obscured the line between right and wrong. When moral right and wrong is a subjective matter, nothing is really right or wrong. And when you abandon what God says about right and wrong, chaos and, ultimately, anarchy results. Was C. S. Lewis right in saying that you've got to know what a straight line is before you know what is crooked? If he was on target (and history demonstrates that he was), then our failure to know the difference today results in the chaos that touches us at every level of life: in government, in education, in our schools, and in our homes and families.

We can lay a lot of blame for the world that we see around us. We blame educational systems for their failures. We can point to self-serving, corrupt leadership. We can definitely point to the fundamental failure of the family unit, a place where parents teach right and wrong to the next generation.

Here is the good news: God knew that we were going to constantly struggle with right and wrong, so He made it clear, and He made a way out of our personal struggle. He provided His Son who paid the price for our wrongs, once and for all, and gave us a never-changing source of wisdom that teaches us right. The Bible gives us guidelines for living that bring joy. Because His care for us goes far beyond simply morality. When we live in right relationship with God, we experience freedom, peace and we have an unmovable foundation of hope to which our lives in this tumultuous world can be anchored.

Resource reading: John 3:16-20

[1] Decety, Jean M., and Jason M. Powell. “Our Brains Are Wired for Morality: Evolution, Development, and Neuroscience.” Frontiers for Young Minds. Accessed June 17, 2020. https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2016.00003.

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/who-decides-what-is-right-and-what-is-wrong/

THE 700 CLUB ASIA | Take heart | August 6, 2020

Thursday, August 6, 2020

GMA and QTV for 2020

GMA-7 Manila
TV-5 Laoag
TV-4 Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte*
TV-48 Vigan
TV-7 Abra
TV-10 Benguet
TV-11 La Union
TV-10 Dagupan
TV-48 Alaminos, Pangasinan
TV-5 Dasol, Pangasinan*
TV-5 Mt. Province
TV-7 Tuguegarao
TV-13 Aparri
TV-5 Bayombong*
TV-7 Batanes
TV-48 Cauayan
TV-21 Santiago
TV-7 Ilagan, Isabela*
TV-5 Baler
TV-10 Olongapo
TV-5 Iba, Zambales
TV-5 Botolan*
TV-__ Subic
TV-10 Pampanga*
TV-5 Tarlac
TV-3 Bagac, Bataan*
TV-46 Malolos
TV-26 Obando
TV-12 Batangas
TV-10 Lipa, Batangas*
TV-5 Lucena*
TV-5 Marinduque*
TV-13 Occidental Mindoro
TV-30 Oriental Mindoro*
TV-44 Jalajala, Rizal
TV-12 Tagaytay*
TV-7 Romblon
TV-8 Coron, Palawan
TV-12 Puerto Princesa, Palawan
TV-6 Brooke's Point, Palawan
TV-8 Daet
TV-7/44 Naga
TV-13 Iriga*
TV-12/33 Legazpi
TV-8 Tabaco, Albay*
TV-8 Malilipot, Albay*
TV-8 Camalig, Albay*
TV-2 Sorsogon
TV-13 Catanduanes
TV-2 Kalibo
TV-5 Roxas
TV-6 Iloilo
TV-13 Bacolod
TV-5 Cadiz
TV-30 Murcia, Negros Occidental
TV-10 Sipalay
TV-11 Antique*
TV-5 Dumaguete
TV-7/51 Cebu
TV-11 Barili, Cebu*
TV-11 Samboan, Cebu*
TV-11 Bohol
TV-10 Tacloban
TV-12 Ormoc
TV-10 Capoocan, Leyte*
TV-5 Calbayog
TV-8 Borongan
TV-13 Catbalogan*
TV-9 Catarman*
TV-9/45 Zamboanga
TV-4 Dipolog
TV-3 Pagadian
TV-21 Ipil
TV-41 Mambajao
TV-35 Cagayan de Oro
TV-12 Bukidnon
TV-8 Valencia*
TV-11 Iligan
TV-5 Ozamiz
TV-5 Davao
TV-8/32 General Santos
TV-12 Kidapawan*
TV-26 Butuan
TV-3 Agusan del Sur*
TV-7 Dinagat
TV-10 Surigao
TV-2 Tandag
TV-12 Cotabato
TV-12 Jolo
TV-8 Bongao, Tawi-Tawi*

(*)Off-air.
(**)On-going expansion.

QTV-11 Manila
TV-__ Laoag
TV-__ Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte
TV-__ San Nicholas, Ilocos Norte
TV-__ Vigan
TV-__ Abra
TV-__ Benguet
TV-__ La Union
TV-__ Dagupan
TV-__ Alaminos, Pangasinan
TV-__ Dasol, Pangasinan
TV-__ Tayug, Pangasinan
TV-__ Urdaneta, Pangasinan
TV-__ Bontoc, Mt. Province
TV-__ Sagada, Mountain Province
TV-__ Tuguegarao
TV-__ Aparri
TV-__ Claveria
TV-__ Batanes
TV-__ Cauayan
TV-__ Echuague
TV-__ Santiago
TV-__ Ilagan, Isabela
TV-__ Bayombong
TV-__ Quirino
TV-__ Baler
TV-__ Olongapo
TV-__ Iba, Zambales
TV-__ Botolan
TV-__ Subic
TV-__ Cabanatuan
TV-__ Gapan
TV-__ Llanera
TV-__ Pampanga
TV-__ Tarlac
TV-__ Balanga
TV-__ Bagac, Bataan
TV-__ Angat
TV-__ Malolos
TV-__ Meycauayan
TV-__ Obando
TV-__ Plaridel, Bulacan
TV-__ San Jose Del Monte
TV-__ Batangas
TV-__ Lipa, Batangas
TV-__ Padre Garcia, Batangas
TV-__ Lemery, Batangas
TV-__ Lucena
TV-__ Jalajala, Rizal
TV-__ Cainta, Rizal
TV-__ Rodriguez, Rizal
TV-__ Morong, Rizal
TV-__ San Mateo, Rizal
TV-__ Antipolo
TV-__ Dasmariñas
TV-__ Tagaytay
TV-__ Tanza
TV-__ Biñan
TV-__ Calamba
TV-__ Los Baños
TV-__ San Pablo
TV-__ Marinduque
TV-__ Occidental Mindoro
TV-__ Calapan
TV-__ Coron, Palawan
TV-__ El Nido, Palawan
TV-__ Roxas, Palawan
TV-__ Puerto Princesa
TV-__ Sofronio Española
TV-__ Narra, Palawan
TV-__ Brooke's Point, Palawan
TV-__ Cuyo, Palawan
TV-__ Balabac, Palawan
TV-__ Romblon
TV-__ Daet
TV-__ Naga
TV-__ Iriga
TV-__ Goa
TV-__ Legazpi
TV-__ Tabaco, Albay
TV-__ Malilipot, Albay
TV-__ Camalig, Albay
TV-__ Sorsogon
TV-__ Caramoran, Catanduanes
TV-__ Panganiban, Catanduanes
TV-__ San Miguel, Catanduanes
TV-__ Virac, Catanduanes
TV-__ Kalibo
TV-__ Malay, Aklan
TV-__ San Jose, Antique
TV-__ Culasi, Antique
TV-__ Roxas
TV-__ Iloilo
TV-__ Miagao, Iloilo
TV-__ Guimaras
TV-__ Bacolod
TV-__ Bais
TV-__ Cadiz
TV-__ Binalbagan, Negros Occidental
TV-__ Kabankalan, Negros Occidental
TV-__ Murcia, Negros Occidental
TV-__ San Carlos City, Negros Occidental
TV-__ Victorias
TV-__ Sipalay
TV-__ Dumaguete
TV-__ Guihulngan
TV-__ Tanjay
TV-__ Cebu
TV-__ Bogo
TV-__ Barili, Cebu
TV-__ Samboan, Cebu
TV-__ Toledo, Cebu
TV-__ Bohol
TV-__ Naval, Biliran
TV-__ Tacloban
TV-__ Ormoc
TV-__ Capoocan, Leyte
TV-__ Isabel, Leyte
TV-__ Calbayog
TV-__ Basey, Samar
TV-__ Borongan
TV-__ Catbalogan
TV-__ Catarman
TV-__ Catubig
TV-__ Zamboanga
TV-__ Dipolog
TV-__ Dapitan
TV-__ Pagadian
TV-__ Ipil
TV-__ Mambajao
TV-__ Oroquieta
TV-__ Ozamiz
TV-__ Cagayan de Oro
TV-__ Gingoog
TV-__ Bukidnon
TV-__ Maramag
TV-__ Valencia
TV-__ Iligan
TV-__ Ozamiz
TV-__ Davao
TV-__ Digos
TV-__ Baganga
TV-__ Mati
TV-__ Nabuturan
TV-__ Panabo
TV-__ Tagum
TV-__ General Santos
TV-__ Kidapawan
TV-__ Polomolok
TV-__ Surallah
TV-__ Alabel
TV-__ Tacurong
TV-__ Lebak
TV-__ Surallah
TV-__ Butuan
TV-__ Prosperidad
TV-__ San Francisco
TV-__ Dinagat Island
TV-__ Surigao
TV-__ Tandag
TV-__ Cotabato
TV-__ Sultan Kudarat
TV-__ Shariff Aguak
TV-__ Marawi
TV-__ Jolo
TV-__ Bongao, Tawi-Tawi

(**)On-going expansion.

STATE OF THE PHILIPPINE TELEVISION ADDRESS 2020

[Requested by Zyle]

[AUTHOR’S NOTE: This post is intended for the effects of the events in this year to date.]

MY DEAR READERS OF TIMOW’S TURF:

This new decade is supposed to mark the optimism of waves of the future but instead, we enter waves of the pandemic.

Noong nagsimula ang taon at ang dekada nito, ang outlook natin ay naka-focus sa uncertainty sa pagkawala ng isang malaking media conglomerate nang dahil sa marupok na ego ng isang makapangyarihang tao.

Well, nangyari na or in one police report turned into a meme, “WALA NA, FINISH NA.”

Yumanig na at nagbago ang landscape ng pambansang telebisyon.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are now in the post-Mother Ignacia era. Kung may “new normal” dahil sa pandemya, ganun din sa nasabing industriya.

Pagkatapos ng ilang dekada ng digmaan ng mga numero sa South Triangle, natigil na ang putukan, este, ang pag-crunch ng data sa Kantar and Nielsen. Sa entertainment section ng mga pahayagan at online websites ay nakapahinga din sa wakas.

The era of a three-legged stool analogy — showing their strong suits in their particular genre — is now archaic.

The Obstructionist Institutions to Innovation

The National Telecommunications Commission, who ordered the shutdown of ABS-CBN under the undue influence from Solicitor General Jose Calida, has yet to learn the lessons not just from the flaws of what the Lopezes did but from the Tiengs’ 11 months prior regarding the exclusivity of their own channels. Hanggang ngayon, hindi pala gumawa ng IRR o final stance tungkol sa conditional access systems (CAS).

Little did they know, the one-two punch decision creates a dilemma of whether their target date of the analog switch-off in 2023 will proceed as planned or will it be pushed back. Pero, wag kalimutan na we are the last countries in Southeast Asia to do so.

For some, you would say: “Anong punto nito kung meron namang Netflix, iflix, iWant, etc?”

While many will call you for being a “privileged” person, I cannot blame you for getting the point.

That being said, I believe that from those 12 prolonged, premeditated hearings a nd their unsurprised “cooking show” outcome plus a post-vote plan of action by the “Gang of Four” to continue their humiliation by property takeover in a Zoom meeting that was caught on the record has realized that the 18th Congress is an impediment for broadcasting innovation.

Their collective analog mindset — and the deliberate singling out — has proven to us na hindi talaga tayo handa for dissemination about digital terrestrial television. Sa palagay natin, hindi ito dadalhin ang mga isyu na nito sa mga budget interpellations against the Department of Information and Communications Technology for 2021.

Hesitant VHF Survivors

Hindi madali ang sumusunod sa yapak ng Dos. Habang natuto tayo sa kanilang pinakamahusay na kasanayan, wag sanang kalimutan ang leksyon mula sa kanilang mga pagkakamali.

It’s not easy to step into Channel 2’s shoes; while we learn from the best practices, we should also learn the errors of their ways.

Marami ang pagkukulang sa mga dating kalaban pero matigas pa rin ang ulo, even if we remove the major factor of this pandemic.

Sa dating karibal sa Kamuning, sila na ang may korona at advertising money bilang dominant media conglomerate pero hanggang ngayon, ang diskarte ng pananalapi at operasyon nila ay konserbatibo. In other words, they’re just complacent or playing safe until they wait for Mother Ignacia to fall to its knees.

When teleserye filming resumes with safety measures, who would benefit under the current state of the industry? Hindi po ba sila.

Noong Hunyo 26, pormal nang nag-launch ang kanilang Affordabox habang itinigil na ang pagbenta ng TV Plus na nakapagbenta ng 9 million units sa limang taon. Ang expectation ng GMA New Media nila ay 600,000 units ang ibebenta — pero dahil sa positibong reviews at dahil sa bagong features, baka sa katapusan ng taon o dalawa, aabot ng 6 million — putting a zero right after the initial figure.

It would have been better if they had launched when they got their franchise renewed three years ago. Moreso, they should have gone up the ante by establishing a full-time sports division — separate but equal status as to their respected News and Public Affairs. Yun nga lang, hindi pwede maging full-time si Chino Trinidad kasi kailangan din siyang mag-operate at mag-manage sa Pilipinas HD. If I were Kenneth Duremdes, the commissioner of MPBL, I would rule out this network as the new home for the league.

They may have been turned 70 this year (59 if on TV) but still the working axiom remains: “Once they played safe, they’ll always play safe.”

On the other hand, to the rescue si Manny V. Pangilinan para sa mga displaced talents to TV5. Let’s face it, his network is a member of KBP just like Dos was.

It sounds promising, had not for the perennial internal organizational drawbacks. Unlike GMA and its sturdy yet so stubborn pillars, the turnover in their organization chart happens more often.

Their local entertainment division, effectively dissolved in 2016, will be restored pero as one die-hard fan of Channel 5 would advise that they should hire technical crew first (e.g. electronic communications engineers, 1st class radio telephone operators) before writers.

Noong Enero, they had the honor of covering the 24th Asian Television Awards for the first time in the country as host and when he got the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Television, napuno ng puntirya sa comments section ng Facebook na wala namang kinalaman sa TV o kaya’y walang ginawa ng tama sa Singko.

Now that the chapter is sealed, the mindset sa pagiging non-revenue driver ang Channel 5 must come to an end, whether he likes it or not. Kamakailan lang po, sila na ang official broadcaster ng NBA at ONE Championship.

Yun nga lang, expect grumbling of certain factions of the existing solid Kapatid: those who wanted AniMEGA to return, those who wanted the PBA to resume, those who are tuning to Idol Raffy Tulfo and two fans who want The Amazing Race Philippines to have a third season.

I believe they will do better and learn from that after that scrounging criticisms. Boss MVP, the whole Philippine TV community is now rooting for you.

Last but not the least, aminado ni Krizette Laureta Chu (isa sa mga constructive supporters ng administrasyon) na mahusay ang mga writers ng Dos na pwedeng maisalba ang PTV mula sa pagiging propaganda machine ng Palasyo for almost half a century. Ito ang dapat na ginawa noong unang SONA niya para maging editorially independent at impartial. Pagkatapos ng apat na taon sa Kwatro, na-improve po ba ang overall image ng PTV o the same pa rin?

No wonder, Mr. Jules Guiang snapped out and expose the double standards on the government channel he was working on. He unravelled the truth on the broken system-cum-real company culture in Vasra that ran nearly half a century. Mr. Guiang, your honesty and bravery has inspired us.

If PTV deserved this kind of audacity, then don’t get me started on IBC 13.

Educational TV

Ang kasalukuyang pandemya’y apektado ang edukasyon. With the school year starting in our country by the near end of this month, blended learning will be the mode of public instruction, according to the Department of Education, so that no learners are left behind. However, the survey says otherwise: modular learning.

We all know the Knowledge Channel was two decades ahead of its time and they are compliant with the prescribed curriculum. However, some of you have sown to disdain for connecting the dots despite that you have watched them (hypocritically) at least once during your childhood days. Few of you were taught to despise because of your implanted brand hatred since birth.

Well, then, last June, I published about the prospects of IBC 13 into a full-time educational channel — from what PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar initially proposed — if the promised privatization of that channel fails to speed up.

The pace of my post was set for a year but we are rushing in a couple of weeks until classes begin. We are not certain if their endeavor will be successful considering the failing infrastructure and financial standing of the tail-end of the VHF spectrum.

Noong Hunyo, pagkatapos ng 28 taon, nagpaalam na ang El Shaddai sa Trese — it was really a religious programming institution.

While The Manila Times loves to jab at ABS even after the media conglomerate’s “death,” they left out the “real opposite” that is currently running at low-power and neglected, which most of us barely even notice. Since two weeks ago, Hataw Tabloid published an ongoing series by Ms. Rose Novenario calling the management in Capitol Hills (no longer in Old Balara) as “Mega web of corruption” and she is very doubtful if this opportunity will materialize and prosper.

But I digress, the people who benefit from this are those who have that channel on Cignal or your provincial cable. If you have a digital TV box, needless to say, you might not get IBC but instead, you’ll get Solar Learning, which is on the test broadcast.

Eyes on 2021 and Beyond

The frequencies of VHF Channel 2 and UHF 23 in the Metro might be ready for auction to “worthy applicants.”

Sabi ng isang business report ng the Philippine Daily Inquirer, mga 6 hanggang 12 buwan ang kailangan bago maghanap ng bagong may-ari ng frequency.

Dalawang buwan bago natigil ang ere ng Dos at Bente-Tres, nailantad ang expose mula sa isang AM radio commentator (hindi po galing DZMM) na “done deal” ang kapalaran sa Mother Ignacia at ibibigay kung sino sa mga matalik na kaibigan ng nakaupo sa Malacanang.

Kung ibibigay yan, lalo lang iikli ang waiting time like negotiating with a fixer. If that is true, then, well, so much for their “law is law” mantra.

When it’s done, will they have the same audience impact as the former tenant has performed for almost 34 years? The answer is “We do not know. We will all see.” Less than two years may be considered a short time but such amount of time is a pretty big deal to watch out for.

If ABS-CBN finally gets a franchise under the next presidential administration (at least, H2 2022), Mother Ignacia might have to wait until the new holder of the franchise of Channel 2 expires or fold up after suffering losses or voluntarily cede the frequency to its pre-2020 state. That’s a three-way road they will encounter. Picking up the pieces is another story.

As former ANC boss, Jing Magsaysay, best puts out: Content creation is a whole different ball game.

As of this moment, the remaining drama units of Dos are now pitching their products to the former rivals — financially-healthy man o “walking dead.” Whatever the fate might be, best of luck and tuloy po ang pagbabantay.

I am through, thank you. Have a good day.

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Jesus: Four Reasons To Believe

“What is truth?” Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.” John 18:38

A sign carried by a demonstrating student on a university campus read, "JESUS, YES! CHRISTIANITY, NO!" Was the student rejecting the distorted picture of Christianity which is often projected--the image of someone who goes to church yet whose life has been unaffected by the message? Does this mean that the demonstrator related to Jesus as a revolutionary, as someone who stood against the crowd and certainly against the established government and authority of His day? Or does that mean He stood for the real, the authentic, the genuine Christ who spoke the truth and gave His life that those who believe in Him could have everlasting life?

I'm uncertain! But I do know one thing. Those who are sincere, who want the truth, will find it. Jesus gave seekers a promise when He said, "If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own" (John 7:17).

This, of course, raises another issue. Where do I find this certainty and can I be sure that the original message Jesus brought hasn't been tampered with by some well-meaning but deceived individual who wants to further his own agenda?

Four men--known as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John--were biographers of Jesus Christ and gave to us a record of His life. These are the principle sources or documents attesting to who Jesus is, what He did, and what He said. True, others wrote of Him, including Tacitus and Sutonius, Roman historians; Josephus, a Jew who threw his lot with the Romans; and a few others whose contributions are minimal.

For those who are sincere, there are four issues which must be considered.

Issue #1: The authenticity of the records including their reliability and purity. Scholars have spent their lives studying this issue, and the deeper they dig, the more convinced they are that the record is trustworthy. Some existing portions of the Gospel of John can be dated to 125 AD, no more than a generation removed from when he wrote his Gospel. More than 40 manuscripts of the Gospels exist that are 1000 years old or older, with the finest that include both the Old and New Testaments dating between 325 AD and 500 AD. Whether you like what Jesus said or dislike it, you can't make a major case out of the record being corrupted.

Issue #2: The moral character of the eyewitnesses. In any court of law, an issue of prime importance is the credibility of the witnesses. A judge wants to know, "Did they have any motive which would have led to distorting the truth?" Matthew was a tax collector. Mark was a young man, a close friend of Peter, in whose home the early church met. Luke, probably the only Gentile to write some of the New Testament, was a Syrian physician, and the companion of Paul on some of his missionary journeys. Though not an eye-witness to everything he wrote about, he was part of the fabric of the early church and had no reason to distort the truth. John, the fourth biographer, was probably the youngest of the twelve, who were closest to Jesus. On the cross, Jesus asked him to take care of his mother--no flaws in his character.

Issue #3: Changed lives. These four biographers, with the possible exception of John, paid for their faiths in the currency of suffering and a martyr's death. Following the resurrection, everywhere they went they proclaimed what they had seen.

Issue #4: The testimony of archaeology, which includes documenting the fact that Pontius Pilate was a government official, that the House of Caiaphas existed, and that many of the places referred to in the Gospels existed, just as the writers told us.

Knowing the truth brings assurance that the record is trustworthy and that what Jesus Christ promised is valid. Faith is your response to the truth, and it's the part no one can do but yourself.

Resource reading: John 1:1-14

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/jesus-four-reasons-to-believe/

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

What’s The Difference Between Discipline And Punishment?

“Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?” (Hebrews 12:7).

How many children grew up with a real distaste for the word “discipline?” Like 2-year-old James, who, when his father announced that he would have to be disciplined for misbehaving chirped, “Discipline—that’s bad stuff!”

Question: Does the Bible differentiate between discipline and punishment? Yes, clearly it does. The New Testament word paideuo, usually translated “to discipline” in the New Testament, is much different from the word paio which means “to strike, hit, or wound.” The latter word was used of Jesus Christ when He was scourged by the Roman soldiers. The former word, which also was translated “to instruct, train, correct, or give guidance to,” was used of a father’s guidance of his son, or even an instructor’s correction of a student.

When a child misbehaves, should he be punished or disciplined? This is not just an argument over words, for there is a huge difference between the two. When a person commits a crime, people are incensed! They cry for justice. The focus is on the past—what happened. The general public isn’t so much concerned about what this person does in the future as they are in his paying the price of his wrongdoing.

But the issue of a child that needs correction is totally different. The whole focus is not what happened in the past, which was wrong, but what needs to be trained and developed in the child’s character for the future. The emotion generating punishment is anger, while the emotion prompting discipline is love. Parents, God doesn’t deal with our sin in anger. He gives us grace, in love, and arranges just the circumstances that we need in our life, to grow.

“If Jesus took all the punishment for you and me, He also took all of it for our children,” says Chip Ingram. “I don’t want to teach my kids that I need to pay them back for the bad things they’ve done. I want them to understand that the only way to make right what they did is to trust that when Jesus died on the cross, He paid for their sins. It makes no sense for me to fellowship with God on the basis of mercy and with my children on the basis of judgment. Since Jesus took the punishment, my role as a parent is not to punish them. My role is to provide appropriate consequences and instruction to help them see how their behavior displeases God and to teach them how to cooperate with God’s work in their lives. The Bible calls this discipline.”[1]

Punishment produces anger, guilt, shame and bitterness. It produces what is called a “prohibitive conscience,” which is a conscience that keeps a child from doing something wrong solely to avoid pain, having nothing to do with obedience or a love of what is right. Discipline, on the other hand, produces regulation of self, self-respect and ultimately, security. No successful person ever makes it to the top without learning the value and importance of knowing how to discipline himself or herself, something which needs to be learned early in life, and the earlier the better.

Discipline begins with parents who fully realize what God has done for them and who convey the importance of that to their kids. The Bible is clear that God disciplines those whom He loves, setting us on a forward-facing path. The godly parent who loves his child and disciplines him or her models this great truth. Yes, discipline takes much more creativity and thought than punishment does. It may require you to seek some counsel and training. God deliver us from punishment, but may He give parents enough love to learn to discipline.

Resource reading: Hebrews 12:1-15

[1] Ingram, Chip. “Punishment Versus Discipline.” Focus on the Family, August 8, 2019. https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/punishment-versus-discipline/.

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/whats-the-difference-between-discipline-and-punishment/

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Here’s What Really Determines The Quality Of Your Parenting

A husband picked up a call from his wife. “Michael got his first tooth and took his first step!” she excitedly told him. “That’s so great!” he answered. “No, there’s more,” continued the wife. “He also had his first fall and cut his lip, and when he did, he said his first bad word!”

Without thinking too hard about where Michael heard that first “bad word,” we may smile at that humor, but there is really nothing funny about the situation which a Guidelines’ listener described, who wrote the following: “I am experiencing a terrible, terrible temper. I can get very violent and I do curse and yell very loudly. What makes this behavior even worse is that I have a two-year-old who now says curse words, and a month-old baby who will learn them if I can’t stop this behavior.”

Out of the mouths of babes may come words that shock, words which innocent children neither understand nor mean. By our examples, we, parents, are the greatest teachers of our children. But it is both unfair and difficult for a parent to discipline a child for using words which he learned from the vocabulary of the parent.

Dorothy Law Nolte said it so clearly: “If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy. If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty. If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient. If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence. If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate. If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice. If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith. If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.”[1]

We may condemn our schools for failing to keep kids safe or to provide a wholesome environment for learning. We may condemn the media for a steady diet of values we do not share. But the real failure which confronts children today is the failure of parents to model godly lives and provide examples for children to follow in living out a life in relationship with God.

Yes, there is the crush of the stress and frustration of life, especially for the single parent who is pressed by inadequate finances, weary and lonely from going it alone. But the real problem confronting our children today is our problem. It is us. When we parents live out what we say we believe, our kids are more secure. When we learn to discipline ourselves, our children require less discipline. When we learn how to make peace with the circumstances of our lives, our children learn to cope with the frustrations that surround them.

When Jesus talked about the issues of life, He always spoke of the heart. He stressed the fact that what we say and what we do are an extension of what we think in our hearts. In doing verbal combat with His detractors who wanted to observe the legalism of washing their hands when their hearts were impure, Jesus said, “The things that come out of the mouth come from the heart…. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man ‘unclean’; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him ‘unclean'” (Matthew 15:18-20).

If you, as a parent, are struggling with your own personal life, get help in coping with the pressures which confront you. Remember, it is the heart, not the mouth, that is the real issue.

Resource reading: Matthew 15:10-20

[1] Excerpted from, McCall, Catherine. “Children Learn What They Live.” Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, December 30, 2011. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/overcoming-child-abuse/201112/children-learn-what-they-live.

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/heres-what-really-determines-the-quality-of-your-parenting/