Filipinos can watch the exploits of their countrymen competing in the coming 26th Southeast Asian Games right in their living rooms from the three cities in Indonesia.
The extensive coverage involving two networks, a first in the Philippine participation in the biennial meet since 1977, will be provided by TV-5 and ABS-CBN, it was announced by representatives of both networks during Friday’s SCOOP Sa Kamayan weekly session at the Kamayan Restaurant-Padre Faura in Ermita, Manila. Vince Rodriguez, head of the News and Programming of Studio 2, a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corp., and Vito Lazatin, sports manager of TV-5, disclosed during the forum, sponsored by Coca-Cola Export, FILA, TV-5 and UNTV, that their respective networks will be devoting time slots the whole day to cover the sports the Filipino athletes are participating in.
