Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Colonial Hangover !!

Yesterday I was eagerly waiting for champions league match between Barcelona-FC(Spanish League Champion) and FC Rubin-Kazen(Russian League Champion)to be telecasted live on TV.But to my utter shock and disbelief I found Tensports was telecasting live match between Liverpool-Lyon and Zee-Sports was telecasting live match between Arsenal-AZ Alkmaar with no signs of Barcelona's match anywhere.Its not the first time I have seen this happening.

I wondered why TV channels chose to show matches of English clubs on a regular basis sidelining good matches played by Spanish and Italian clubs.Does the popularity of English Clubs in India is because of the 'Colonial Hangover' in spite of the ubiquitous fact that top Spanish league clubs are better than top English clubs.Wonder how by not showing good matches on TV, Telecaster mold viewer-ship by depriving viewers from watching good fought matches played by Spanish and Italian Clubs.

I believe its time viewers have a say in this and if there are not enough sports channels available then they can share telecast right among other sports channels(ESPN-STAR in this case) so that viewers are not deprived of good matches and overall popularity if the game itself soars which will eventually leads to more viewer-ship in near future for these matches.

Hope somebody is listening !

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