2011 SEA Games to be broadcast on Phil. 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.
As far as the Filipino athletes? preparations are concerned, Loyzaga, himself a former national player and one of Philippine Basketball Association 25 Greatest Players,assured that everything seems in place.
?Our athletes naman have been continuosly training and preparing themselves at we have been monitoring their training through a cluster group formed for that purpose,? he said in reference to cluster members, commissioner Akiko Thomspon, Mark Joseph, Jeff Tamayo and Manny Lopez.
?While the coming Philippine National Games is designed to determine the composition of majority of teams in the SEA Games, calendar, I know also that there several NSAs, too, that have already completed their lineups,? he said. ?The PNG, kumbaga, will decide officially kung may papalitan ba, doon sa mga teams na buo na. At para doon sa hindi pa nabub uo, sa PNG na malaman ang komposisyon.
Loyzaga laughed off reports that since there was no criteria set in the composition of the national delegation, the Philippine can send as many as 800 athletes.
?Mabuti nga 800 lang yung lumabas sa ilang dyaryo. Eh me balita pa nga ako more than a thousand ang ipadadala natin,? he told SCOOP members grinning from ear-to-ear. ?There?s no such thing. Not that big. Dapat maging realistic tayo, practical.?
The biggest question here is, do we have funds to finance that big a delegation? To me, at the end of the day, NSAs pa rin ang masusunod kung gaano karami ang masasama. Kung sino ang karapat-dapat.?
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