KBS becomes firmly established as an all-color television network, consisting of ten full powered provincial stations, strategically situated in Baguio (KBS-12), Laoag (KBS-9), Bicol (KBS-10 in Iriga), Iloilo (KBS-8), Bacolod (KBS-8), Cebu (KBS-9 in Mandaue), Davao (KBS-9), General Santos (KBS-7) and Butuan (KBS-4) alongside the flagship station (KBS-9) in Manila. Martial law KBS years and ABS-CBN takeover (1972-1975) On September 23, 1972, the KBS television and radio stations and the newspaper publication Philippines Daily Express, all belonging to the Roberto Benedicto group, were allowed to operate during the martial law period with the former airing Wacky Races and Francisco Tatad's reading of Proclamation No. 1081, where most of the media outfits were closed down after the declaration of martial law with Proclamation No. 1081 by Ferdinand Marcos. On September 28, 1972, Marcos ordered the takeover of the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation and turned over its facilities to KBS, controlled by Marcos crony Benedicto. ABS-CBN's facilities were later transferred from KBS to the government-owned Maharlika Broadcasting System. Crony-owned media companies broadcast or published news and entertainment meant to project a positive image for the dictatorship and conceal its abuses. Properties and funding for KBS network partly came from ABS-CBN in the form of its old headquarters along Roxas Boulevard and equipment from Toshiba enabling them to broadcast in color. As a result, on its launch it was branded Accucolor 9 – an RPN station ("Accucolor" is the name of the color technology used) as the first Philippine television network to launch in full color. In 1973, RPN brought the first slow-motion machine to support the coverage of the MICAA basketball games. Color production with color-ready equipment would enable the government to invest in RPN for color coverages of national events, as then state network GTV (now PTV), which began two years later after the beginning of martial law, was mostly monochrome before its first color broadcasts in 1976. In 1974, the KBS network grew with the opening of more stations in Tuguegarao (KBS-9), Bayombong (KBS-7), Legazpi (KBS-2), Palawan (KBS-5), Roxas (KBS-7), Dumaguete (KBS-5 moved to RPN-8), Tacloban (KBS-5), Zamboanga (KBS-5), Dipolog (KBS-5), Pagadian (KBS-5), Ozamiz (KBS-9), Cagayan de Oro (KBS-5), Surigao (KBS-4) and Cotabato (KBS-10). The first Radio Philippines Network (1975–1989) Benedicto ownership (1975–1986) In 1975, KBS formally relaunched as RPN, the acronym for its franchise name, Radio Philippines Network (the RPN name was first used in the provincial stations before the