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Why is there very little Olympic coverage on Taiwanese TV?

by Guest44898  |  earlier

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I'm living in the Da-An area of Taipei and have only managed to watch about 30mins of the opening ceremony - then the channel jumped to a Taiwanese drama... I managed to watch about 10 mins of beach volleyball (it was all I could fine ~ ok...) - then they stopped the coverage and started showing one of those really annoying Taiwanese Kung-Fu puppet dramas!

I'm quite annoyed as there are 3 sport channels with almost 24hour baseball coverage, but no channels completely devoted to the olympics!

The only channels I've found with any coverage are 8, 10 and 12. There is a Japanese news channel around 112 but there aren't even Chinese subtitiles so I don't know what they are talking about!

Can anybody tell me if there are any better channels or if any pubs have full olympic coverage?

Thanks!

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  1. I find it very difficult to watch any news on TV without the Olympics being covered somewhere in the broadcast. I had in previous years found that travelling along the Trans Siberian railway was a good method to avoid wall to wall Olympics, but this year, having stayed at home, I have been bombarded with sport  sport  sport, and if it were not Olympics, then it would surely be football from wherever.

    Consider yourself fortunate, take a deep breath, and maybe offer a prayer for your safe delivery.

    However, I do suspect that the broadcasters in Taiwan, or maybe the Taiwan government are playing a political card to avoid any free advertising from the mainland. It will surely change when Taiwan is restored to the motherland. Then 24 hours sport for all.


  2. this one website has the replay, it's free and it is in HD, so it's pretty cool:

    http://www.indonewyork.com/contents/Beri...

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