coming 26th Southeast Asian Games right in their living rooms from the
three cities in Indonesia.
The extensive coverage involving two networks, a first in the
Philippine participation in the biennial meet since 1977, will be
provided by TV-5 and ABS-CBN, it was announced by representatives of
both networks during Friday's SCOOP Sa Kamayan weekly session at the
Kamayan Restaurant-Padre Faura in Ermita, Manila.
Vince Rodriguez, head of the News and Programming of Studio 2, a
subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corp., and Vito Lazatin, sports manager of TV-5,
disclosed during the forum, sponsored by Coca-Cola Export, FILA, TV-5
and UNTV, that their respective networks will be devoting time slots
the whole day to cover the sports the Filipino athletes are
participating in.
ABS-CBN, through Studio 23, according to Rodriguez, will devote eight
hours of airing time for its coverage in the Indonesia SEAGames
scheduled to formally open next week in the cities of Jakarta and
Palembang.
Rodriguez told members of the Sports Communicators Organization of the
Philippines the giant broadcast firm will give a morning time slot
from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., an afternoon time slot from 2 p.m. to 6
p.m., and a prime time slot from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. for their
comprehensive coverage of the meet among the 10-member nations' finest
athletes.
"Focus will be given on gold-medal events of our athletes, hindi lang
popular sports," said Rodriguez.
TV-5, through its sports channel AKTV on IBC 13, will also have its
own SEAG coverage for almost the entire day.
"If we couldn't air live games, we'll deliver the latest updates of
events participated in by our athlete," Lazatin, who came to the
session with TV-5 sports head Dong Capuyan, for his part, said.
"The challenge is to take all of the schedule and make it work. There
are schedules which are finalized a day before the competition
itself," Lazatin said.
Since both networks have broadcast rights over the SEAG, there will be
times when both channels will air the same live events like what
happened in Thursday's football hostilities between the Philippines
and Vietnam.
ABS-CBN will televise the opening ceremony on Nov. 11 right after the
football match pitting the PHL squad and Laos, while AKTV will deliver
highlights of the ceremony in a segment of their PBA coverage before
airing the rest of it after the game.
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