ABS-CBN announced that it is letting go of 200 employees amidst ‘a difficult year’ for the content industry. Its president says this would be the last retrenchment program under his leadership.
Gabby Lopez still has no board seat, title, or chairmanship in the Lopez group, not even at ABS-CBN. What he now has is a direct financial stake in ABS-CBN's rescue after giving up everything else.
In the five-month Lopez family saga, there is one, inescapable fact: someone has to put money in.
The latest movement in the Lopez family war is, on paper, a retreat.
The once mighty broadcast giant is still in the red, but a healthy content stream and cost reductions seem to indicate it is on a path to profitability.