Filipino media and entertainment group ABS-CBN Global has, like most DVB satellite broadcasters, uprooted its traditional business and charged headfirst into OTT video – as a result successfully transforming it into a global organization. Yet ABS-CBN’s story is unlike any other, enduring trials and tribulations unique to the South East Asian market. On top of having to deal with the Covid-19 situation, which stopped ABS-CBN from producing new content, major controversy followed in May this year when the influential media network was issued a cease and desist order by the country’s National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) – meaning it was temporarily taken off air. This caused widespread outrage in the Philippines, a country where not everyone has a mobile phone, but…