2011 SEA Games to be broadcast on Philippine TV

By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 15 Apr 2011

For the first time in nearly a decade, sports fans back home will have a chance to watch the Filipino athletes strut their wares against the best in the region in the coming 2011 Southeast Asian Games Scheduled in Indonesia this November.

Commissioner Chito Loyzaga of the Philippine Sports Commission, one of the appointed chiefs of mission of the national delegation to this year’s edition of the biennial meet, yesterday announced that talks will start soon between the PSC and the Philippine Olympic Committee, on the one hand, and giant network ABS-CBN, on the other, for the latter to cover selected events of the Games for the Filipinos to watch them right in their living room.“I, actually, had an initial talks with our friends from ABS-CBN for this purpose and we have relayed the network’s intention to POC secretary general Steve Hontiveros,” Loyzaga, eldest son of local basketball’s “Big Difference” Carlos Loyzaga disclosed during Friday’s SCOOP Sa Kamayan weekly session at the Kamayan Restaurant-Padre Faura. 

“Steve, for his part, told me that we in the PSC and POC will meet with our counterparts from the televisison station to discuss things out,” Loyzaga said during the public service forum, sponsoired by Coca Cola Bottling Philippines, TV-5 and FILA. 
“So, I guess, after that meeting or series of meetings, we’ll have to make representation with the Games Organizing Committee in Indonesia as to how televisison coverage of the Games will be made possible,” he said. 

If plans do not miscarry, it will be the first time since the 2007 SEA Games in Thailand that exploits of the Filipino athletes in multi-event international meet will be televized. For reasons only the POC knows, no television coverage was done in the 2009 SEA Games in Laos and last year’s Asia Games in Guangzhou, China. 

“Yes, ngayon lamang mangyayari ito sa loob ng mahabang panahon. Kung matutuloy, matutuwa na ang mga kababayan natin na sa wakas ay mapapanood na nila ang ating mga kababayan na makipagsagupaan sa ating mga kalaban dito sa Southeast Asia,” Loyzaga said. 



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This is good to hear that the Filipinos can watch the south east asian games this time and it is ABS-CBN who will have the exclusive coverage of the games. The last time we were able to see the games live was during the Thailand SEA Games in 2007.

via reuters