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ESPN Philippines confirmed today that the Premier League match schedule will be prioritized for live broadcast across their network. We secured this commitment through a series of direct meetings with their programming executives. The schedule changes take effect immediately and I will be monitoring the upcoming weekend broadcasts to ensure …

February 1, 2008

Premier League Coverage from ESPN Philippines

Premier League Coverage from ESPN Philippines

🏆 Won — 153 supporters Verified

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Started by Leo Felnand Benedicto 19 years, 1 month ago
The Premier League is one of the most exciting football leagues in the world. ESPN recognized this when they bought the TV rights for the English League in Asia. However, as the rest of Asia has enjoyed ESPN Asia's coverage of the EPL, ESPN Philippines' coverage of the Premier League has been practically non-existent. Just on the 19th of August when the first big match of the season took place as Liverpool hosted Chelsea, fans tuned in to catch the game but were left disappointed to find out that ESPN Philippines was not going to be airing the big game. Instead, they were gutted to see that in lieu of that massive game, what has being aired was a "Spelling Bee", which is in all honesty in no way a sport. It would have been easier to take if there was another Live Event taking place but what makes us so disappointed is when such a massive game is traded in favor of a spelling bee or a Pool event which took place ages ago. This is a call for Premier League fans in the Philippines to voice out their support for a call for more Premier League coverage from ESPN Philippines. Contrary to popular belief, there are a lot of Football afficionados in the Philippines. Let us let our voices be heard and let ESPN recognize the quite sizeable fanbase of Premier League Clubs here in the Philippines. This is our chance to be heard. By supporting this online petition, we hope that the people in charge of ESPN Philippines recognize this and give their audience what they really deserve. Thank You.

Updates

January 2, 2008

I have finalized a formal request for programming transparency and sent it to the regional scheduling office. The lack of direct feedback from the network remains a primary obstacle but I am prepared to escalate this inquiry to the head office if no formal response arrives.

Reached 100 supporters

January 2, 2008

6 Comments

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Brian
11 years ago Featured

Philippines have to stop denying the world's most watched sport to be shown in the Philippines. It is hugely popular in all other Asian Pacific countries and will promote a sport that Filipinos can physically play without American imported players.

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Brian
11 years ago Featured

Philippines have to stop denying the world's most watched sport to be shown in the Philippines. It is hugely popular in all other Asian Pacific countries and will promote a sport that Filipinos can physically play without American imported players.

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Jay Morales
12 years ago Featured

This is doable because 3-4 years ago, ESPN and Star sports included the Philippines already.

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Jerson Williamson
19 years ago Featured

we really need proper coverage here. everywhere else in asia gets the matches but we keep getting left out for absolute junk programming.

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Mark Kumar
19 years ago Featured

SERIOUSLY a spelling bee over Liverpool vs Chelsea? that is a joke espn.

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Anna Kapoor
19 years ago Featured

i pay for cable just to watch the games and i keep getting reruns of pool instead. give us the pl already.