Ordinary Gweilo
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Category: Sports
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Well, Wimbledon is over for another year. Star Sports seem to do a fairly competent job of covering the championships, with live coverage every evening, a highlights show in the morning, and extended highlights in the afternoon. However, I can’t help feeling that they could do better. In a multi-channel world it seems a little…
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Oh, it’s a different type of rally… From the BBC website: A newspaper has claimed Mosley took part in a “Nazi-style orgy”. He denies his actions had any Nazi connotations. He has faced numerous calls to resign since the News of the World’s revelations.
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Stupid choices – the Rugby Sevens in high definition (on Jade HD), but with no English commentary, or with a fuzzy picture and an English commentary on Pearl. Why couldn’t TVB arrange for an English soundtrack to be available on Jade HD?
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The most popular subject in Talkback (the SCMP’s curious letter column that isn’t) seems to be problems with Pay TV, and specifically the sports channels. This is an interesting example of greater competition not having the normal effect of reducing prices. Quite the contrary in fact – the cost of subscribing to all the sports…
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Tim Noonan in the SMP on the strange business of sport on pay-tv in Hong Kong (subscription required): It all started a few years back when ESPN and Star Sports left Hong Kong Cable for Now TV. Cable subsequently bid for the rights to broadcast the coveted English Premier League (EPL), which was on ESPN…
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There has been a lot of correspondence in the SCMP recently about PCCW’s Now Broadband TV, and specifically their sports channels. After winning the rights to the English Premier League, PCCW have created a new package of channels, for which they apparently plan to charge HK$218 per month (their current "special offer" for an 18-month…
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A few months ago, Now TV were offering subscriptions to ESPN & Star Sports at $78 per month. Now it has become a Mega Sports Pack at HK$178 per month. The "mega" seems to mean that as well as ESPN & Star Sport, you get Eurosport News (already available on Cable TV), Eurosport and an…
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Was there a cricket match recently somwhere in this part of the world? They’re generally very dull affairs, particularly the last day, so I don’t suppose I missed anything. Meanwhile, in the make believe world of blogs, DGNY would seem to be having a good time in Italy.
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This week I am mainly…watching a DVD of the last Ashes series – to celebrate England winning a Test Match in India for the first time in 21 years. In case you missed the news, England beat India by 212 runs. As I refuse to pay HK$168 a month for the cricket channel, I am…
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I may not be able to watch the cricket, but I can experience the same weather. On Friday they had rain at Old Trafford (rain in Manchester – well, there’s a surprise) at almost exactly the time that we had a thunderstorm in Hong Kong. Then on Saturday we had rain for most of the…
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