Why is there very little Olympic coverage on Taiwanese TV?

Question

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!

Answer 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.

Answer 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...

Answer 3

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