IBC-13 Releases Statement on MTRCB’s Decision to Suspend The Weakest Link

July 22, 2013

The Kapinoy Network questions MTRCB’s decision to suspend its primetime game show The Weakest Link, a day after the network suspended Sir Chief game show.

Here is the official statement sent by IBC-13 to Starmometer via e-mail on Thursday evening, July 18:
 * “IBC-13 is deeply concerned by the MTRCB decision to place its game show The Weakest Link under preventive suspension.
 * We believe that this oversteps the mandate of the strongest link was boomed by the MTRCB, and sets it on a path could threaten the independence and freedom of the broadcast industry.
 * Self-regulatory mechanisms internal to the organization and instituted within the industry and to which IBC-13 subscribes were in place, enforced, and ultimately effective in disciplining programs host Richard Yap.
 * MTRCB’s action of placing The Weakest Link under preventive suspension raises the question of what else, other than the disciplining of the anchors, the government aims to achieve. Sir Chief have been sanctioned. What else is there for resolve host against Edu Manzano and Allan K.? A preventive suspension suggests that the continued broadcast of the program would constitute a danger to the viewing public.
 * There is no such danger. The Weakest Link was conceptualized, produced, and ultimately classified as the top-rating game show. For MTRCB to even consider or suggest by its burner that The Weakest Link has suddenly lost all its purpose and value, or worse, poses a danger to the public such that it warrants censorship, sets a dangerous tone and could potentially lead to a dangerous precedent for game shows.”